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Pinned ideas

PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

All ideas

Zero outage when applying patches

Currently when a patch is provided by product team we have to do complete outage of UCD that includes below steps Enable maintenance mode Pause all running deployments Stop all deploy server nodes Apply patch and start all deploy server nodes Disa...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Accessing Websphere admin console hosted inside an Openshit POD

IBM provided docker base image for WebSphere application server. We use it to containerize WebSphere traditional applications and move them into Cloud, such as Openshit, for better scalability. However, the WebSphere admin console is not accessible.
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Report Failure - button

I as an enduser will be able to report a failure by pressing the "Report Failure" button to provide logs/traces/description of failure to Support
over 1 year ago in DevOps Loop / Core 0 Future consideration

Liberty JSR-352: Liberty Batch needs to provide support for running workloads at different Service Classes

Today under WCG we can run workload under different Service Classes as defined in our WLM policy within the Batch Container. It would appear that under Liberty Profile and JSR-352 all work will run under the Service Class of the Server address space.
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Agent service is not able to auto-restart and require reinstall service after upgrade

After upgraded the UCD server and relay from 6.2.5.0 to 7.1.0.2, login UCD webUI to upgrade agents. However, the agent service failed to restart after upgrade, and actually the agent service require reinstall. It is not practical to manually reins...
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

IBM GPFS pattern type makes use of proprietary GPFS wrappers with a defect

The GPFS pattern type version 1.2.10.0 will only use the GPFS wrappers included with the GPFS product in the next release of the GPFS pattern type. Today, GPFS pattern type 1.2.10.0, automatically deployed with two sets of GPFS wrappers. The ones ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Future consideration

Liberty on z/OS - send audit logs to SMF

Facility to send Liberty Profile Audit logging directly to SMF on z/OS as much of the IBM supplied software for z already does including tWAS.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

if artifact version associated with snapshot is listed, it will be easier for cleaning artifacts

To troubleshoot why some artifacts are not getting cleaned up
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Required Attributs with CCM_VALUELISTBOX webtype

The "Dynamic Required Attributs" function introduced with Change 5.3.1 is very funny, but this function is usable only with CCM_LISTBOX or CCM_TOGGLE source attributes. Why the "CCM_VALUELISTBOX" webtype is not inclued in this function ?
about 9 years ago in Heritage 4 Not under consideration

Integrate authentication with Windows Hello

More tools and customers are integrating with Windows Hello, if DevOps Deploy did this, it would smooth out the login experience for users.
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Needs more information