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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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Retain sorting of resource properties in batch mode as is selected in table mode

Retain sorting of resource properties in batch mode as is selected in table mode or make alphabetical ascending sort as default, to match the behavior in versions prior 7.x.
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

New category 'Technical' for application processes to remove exposure to the user

Designing the processing for our Cobol pipeline we have ran into situations when we need to start a process in another environment then the one that was requested by the user. For example when we deploy to PR we need to start a process in a test e...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Application processes only runable in certain environments

Our setup of UCD for Cobol system deployments we have some application processes that only should be run in the PR environment. It is a problem that these processes are available as a choice when deploying to a test environment because the users m...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

check specific components status in server command

We want an easier way to check the status of an activationSpec programatically. Now we have server command with pause and resume activationSpec capabilities, but we need this to also enable the option to check the status of server components. serv...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

WebSphere should offer StartTLS support when connecting to LDAP server for authentication

When configuring WebSphere for LDAP authentication, if you select "use SSL", this forces WebSphere to establish an LDAPS connection with the LDAP server (port 636 by default). This is an outdated mechanism. LDAP v3 defines the StartTLS extension, ...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

UrbanCode Deploy and 2FA

Did UrbanCode Deploy support 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) and how to enable it ?
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Provide the function to schedule patch installation jobs

This is part 3 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 and is built on top of WASINTOPS-I-109. The customer would like to use the GUI of WSA to select one or more servers, display the list of unresolved vulnerabilities, cho...
11 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Custom filtering or grouping of systems

Provide custom filtering of systems so they can be grouped as business needs or organizational needs dictate.(
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Action Based Security

This idea is to be able to manage "actions" in the role configuration. An example would be under "Resource", "Create Resource" we would have the actions "Create" & "Copy" and under "Edit" we would have "Update a resource's parent". Ideally we'...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Future consideration

Trusted DB2 for z/OS connection for Liberty Profile

It would be very helpful if WAS Liberty Profile supported DB2 trusted connections and trusted contexts. Right now I am forced to use SyncToOSThread functionality but that causes problems with authorization to write to log files. I am working on a ...
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration