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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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Default Teams for New Objects Amendment

We currently have permission issues within our resource tree where visibility and usage is incorrectly assigned. We have several groups that are used by platform teams that are then assigned into roles. We have found that people are not updating t...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Delivered

Enhance Application Process Required Role

Currently application processes can be configured so that a required role is needed to run the process. Unfortunately this is limited to a single role. We currently have a range of platform roles for seniority in platform teams that work across mu...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 10 Delivered

The window while adding version while requesting deployment has scroll

When we do "Add Version" while requesting deployment, if the component name is too big, it adds a horizontal scroll to the window. This can be very annoying to the User, if they have to add multiple component versions. The window width should eith...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Delivered

To support AES-256 password encryption in traditional WebSphere

Client Feedback:As per this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was/9.0.5?topic=files-encrypting-passwords-by-using-aes , WAS only supports AES-128 encryption. My customer's security standard requires AES-256 at the minimum.
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Delivered

Changing the urban code agent cert validity from 20 years to 2 years

When UCD agent is installed an entry 'ucd-agent-id' is created in agent.keystore, by default it comes with 20 years of validity but we want this entry to be valid for a period of 2 years, so that it can be rotated. By following this we can mitigat...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Delivered

IM albd check should use alternative to NTLM

Installation Manager (IM) currently uses legacy NTLM authentication to check for clearcase server process (albd) credentials during installation on Windows.More and more customers disable NTLM in their environment which causes albd check to fail.T...
about 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Delivered

Applications teams are facing issues in importing artifacts from RAW formatted repositories For e.g: When you use raw (e.g. javascript cwa) or pypi format then it can only pick up the first level folder name as the version This doesn't work very well as normally users would have multiple applications in a nexus repo, each in their own folder, So it forces one repo per application or inability to use pull for non java applications. Due to this all javascript, python and non maven java applications are affected by this. Do we have any update on Nexus Repo v3 / Maven plugin in upcoming releases to pull artifacts specific set of folders from raw formatted repositories.

Our applications teams are facing issues in importing artifacts from RAW formatted repositories When you use raw (e.g. javascript cwa) or pypi format then it can only pick up the first level folder name as the version This doesn't work very well a...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Delivered

Disallow Token Restriction None

This idea is to allow us to prevent Tokens being created with "Token Restrictions" set to none. We would like to be able to enforce restrictions. There is also a potential use case where we maby want to enforce different restrictions for different...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Delivered

Need a property to fetch manual task approval date and time

When a manual task is approved, the approver name and display name exposed as output properties in the step. These properties can be referenced using: ${p:ManualTask/ApproverDisplayName} and ${p:ManualTask/ApproverName} In addition to approval nam...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

IDEA En-mass Group Execution of a CVE ifix – Priority 2

We concur’s with the recommendation on the IDEA to potentially do a singular remediation against many target servers; that is to do an enmass group execution of a CVE ifix.
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Delivered