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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

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Provide an option that allows WebSphere Liberty database pool to maintain a minNumber of "warm" connections.

The current configuration options that are available in WLP do not allow for maintaining a minPoolSize number of connections in a given connection pool. Any events of connection aging (for example timeouts that can occur on the WLP side as well as...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

enhance inheritance of transformation configurations in DevOps Model RealTime

we have a matrix of builds, compilers, targets, library versions the option to inherit the UNION of all (non blank) inherited values (at any level), for the final .tcjs (that gets generated) the option to combine a final (override value) with inhe...
over 1 year ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 2 Needs more information

Queue Refresh of Manifests for All Agents in BuildForge

System : Rational BuildForgeActor : Needs a new Feature to Queue Manifest Refresh for all Servers avalilable in BuildForge BuildForge is commonly used tool in our organization for Version Management, Build and Deploying applicaitons into WebSphere...
over 6 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

RTAS - Selenium execution support

We would like to be able to run Selenium tests from the RTAS. We assume some example workspace containing Selenium and related execution might be sufficient.
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Hub 1 Not under consideration

Bring back ability to check in multiple files in single click with "Apply to All" button in RAD ClearTeam Explorer Extension / ClearQuest integration.

In the past developers were able to click "Apply to All" button when checking in multiple files with Rational Application Developer with ClearTeam Explorer Extension + ClearQuest Perl based integration. However, in ClearCase 9.0.2.x "Apply to All"...
about 3 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

App expanded folder auto cleanup

When applications deployed to a Liberty server are expanded, e.g. <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> the expanded war and ear files are not deleted when the corresponding application is stopped and removed from the Liberty server.An exp...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Detailed documentation for setting up SAML.

Detailed documentation is required from the liberty team on how to configure SAML + LDAP for different vendors and how to set it up correctly to work in the 'IBM Cloud Private' Customers use different types of LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP, Active...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

QTest Data Integration in UCV

Tricentis QTest tool provides test executions like other testing tools in the market and also provides test environment to run the execution. Integrating QTest to trigger test runs from UCV would help testers to not worry on the results archive si...
almost 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Measure 2 Not under consideration

Change way ClearCase determines the Window version

When you run cleartool hostinfo -long on a windows 10 host (ANY build), the windows version number is reported as: Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200) This is inaccurate and makes auditing a client mix more difficult. The cause is described by this page: ...
almost 8 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Improve support for migration of UCD objects across instances

Tools team is currently supporting active development of UCD processes for several hundred applications. We would like to manage and deploy UCD objects using standard automated development practices. Unfortunately, the available processes are inco...
over 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration