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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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Deployment stats to various platforms

Require stats on number of deployment to various platforms (cloud, mainframe, windows, linux, zlinux, aix) over a specified period of time. Stats can be available via API call or by reading from UCD database.
almost 5 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Time calculation

Once the plan or task is paused for certain amount of time, it shouldn't be included in actual duration; actual duration should be "elapsed time" and total duration should be what currently the actual time is.
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Release 2 Planned for future release

Allow External Approval processes to gather deployment instance information, including component and version info and properties

This would be beneficial for our CI/CD approval process automation because our goal is to approve/deny production releases on an automated basis by utilizing UCD Component version properties to query information in RTC related to a work item statu...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

make webview update more robust

More users are working from home and going through complex network (VPN, reverse-proxy, ...) to reach the corporate cloud. It is necessary to make the CCRC webview update more robust for such environment. Large webview update can be interrupted by...
over 1 year ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

xscmd Ehancements

Customers should be able to use the xscmd command to help provide better insight of errors across many grids and to utilize the command for improved recovery for many grids that may have issues.
over 6 years ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Future consideration

Add install support for Rocky Linux

IBM has retired CentOS. Stream is not an acceptable replacement in an enterprise environment. Rocky linux IS CentOS with a development org supporting it whom are highly experienced at maintaining CentOS. Please add install support for Rocky Linux.
over 3 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

expoprt and import security configuration by application

Be able to have an option export and Import security definitions, i.e. groups, teams , roles etc associated to an application.
over 6 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Develop a plugin to integrate with SonaType Nexus Repository

Every time we create a release or deployment plan with Velocity, it would be very helpful if we know exactly what artifact is built and saved to Nexus Repository, in order to manage and trace application version. This plugin will pull (or get) dat...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 5 Future consideration

Assign a different CVSS score to CVEs based on org assessment

Our organization may wish to change the default CVSS score for a given CVE, based on our own assessment. We gather and store this information in variety of ways, but we do have internal APIs which could be used to collect the CVSS score to be assi...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

pre-populate Test->Recording->Proxy Recording filters with well known junk domains

RPT allows the use of filters when recording to filter out domains at recording time so they don't have to be filtered out at test generation time. The problem is this list is empty, and a bit tricky to use Refer to junk1.jpg for the Preference in...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 0 Not under consideration