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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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Make "Description" field for Application Deploys a property

In order to enforce certain keywords for deploys, it would be valuable to access the "Description" field in Application deploys via a property.
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 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

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

improve rcleartool performance

Find a solution to speed up rcleartool execution, for example by reusing the same java environment. When sitting in rcleartool shell, the first command is slow (because of java overhead) but subsequent commands are faster.Unfortunately "rcleartool...
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

64-bit JRE support

Upgrade the embedded JRE to Java 1.8 64-bit.
over 8 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 8 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

Allow certificate authentication in Rational Asset Manager

Please allow smart card authentication, aka certificate authentication, into the RAM application. I have been able to successfully accomplish this with both RTC and JTS applications running on WebSphere, but RAM will not allow users into the appli...
over 8 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 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

Add support for ignoring unknown elements in SOAP response

We run an application on Liberty that performs SOAP-based API calls to a third party API. The API changes frequently and adds new elements to the response, which breaks our application until we update our client code as well. When previously deplo...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration