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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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IBM SDK v8 support for Apple Mac OS (M1 and M2 processors) to support developing J2EE applications on Apple Mac OS.

There are a lot of different WebSphere Application Server stack-products available for which all need to be running on IBM SDK v8 when using the traditional application server. More and more J2EE developers moving to Apple Mac OS, for which the ha...
11 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Integrate RBAC support directly into Design Room One

Currently in order to have RBAC support and Active Directory integration for Design Room One you need to integrate it with the Keycloak application. That means additional installation and ongoing maintenance overhead to get Design Room One up and ...
11 months ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Not under consideration

Automated In-Doubt TX Cleanup

When there are in-doubt txs in the tranlog and partnerlogs when we undeploy an ear with a BPM resource adapter in it, there is no step done to clear the entries in the tranlog and partnerlog. Over time as we deploy new versions of our BPM applicat...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

UCD Deployment Status for Skipped

Our UCD deployment process has 30 steps and current success/fail status is causing confusion with the deployers knowing which steps run and which did not. We have a number of conditional steps that will run or will not run depending on the switch ...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Mass deployment of efixes

In the current system an efix can only be applied to a single virtual system. It is impossible to apply an efix on multiple systems or all systems in a cloud group or environment profile.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Inform the owner of the reason for fixes

When an efix is applied to a virtual system the owner of the system is notified through mail. Sometimes these notices may be ignored, if it is a minor fix for instance.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Connect in/out component should support additional network interfaces

Pattern development currently supports firewall configuration through the CONNECT IN/OUT component. This component does not support multiple network interfaces.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Enable usage of secure properties in Realm configuration

Currently UCD Authentication and Authorization realm does not support usage of properties instead of hardcoded value for secured properties like password/secret etc. The compliance processes in our organization does not allow human access to the p...
6 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

pure internal IIM repository handling logging

If you try to upload an IIM package to the internal IIM repository sometimes the upload fails, but there's no output of the reason why it fails. so it would be usefull to show some more output of the failure. If you now wan't to see the real error...
over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Support background license checks in ClearQuest.

In environments using a central (or regional) IBM License key server, ClearQuest login times are proportional to the amount of time it takes to check out ClearQuest (and potentially ClearQuest MultiSite) licenses. This also directly impacts the pe...
6 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 2 Not under consideration