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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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Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux

Due to Red Hat's shutting down public access to their distribution source packages, Oracle and other "compatible" linux distributions can no longer state that their kernel or userspace packages are 100% compatible with the matching Red Hat Enterpr...
about 1 month ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Needs more information

Allow IBM HTTP Server behind a proxy/LB that performs SSL offloading to become aware that the original request uses https

In a situation where IHS is behind another proxy/LB that performs SSL offloading, it would be beneficent to implement a behavior similar to WAS, to check a http header defined by the web container custom property 'httpsIndicatorHeader' to know tha...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Role configuration Server Configuration Manage Security should be more granular

At the moment the entitlement Serveucd-corerity has far too much access. In our team we need new starters to be able to view role configurations, team configurations as part of their training but in general I would expect separate entitlements for...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 7 Not under consideration

Make generated codecompliant with Clang-tidy misc-use-anonymous-namespace checker

When adding new class and setting generation of: initializer, destructor etc model compiler generates it as static. Then when running static analysis with CodeChecker or Clang-Tidy it reports issue as on example below:function 'rtg_ExampleFunction...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Model & Code / Model RealTime 1 Under review

Helm artifactory for Liberty Operator

Most of the OEM software are packaged with helm. By having the helm artifactory, Liberty operator can be deployed in any flavor of kubernetes using helm deployment tool.
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Plugin Mongo DB for UCD Deploy

Our application teams would like to have possibility to deploy SQL files to MongoDB database. Plugin should work similar to MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle plugins that already exist in UCD.
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Needs more information

Upgrade Agent have limitation of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer Agent - which is problematic if customer have 50.000 UCD Agents to upgrade

Upgrade Agent feature have limitation described on documentation as: "Updating many agents simultaneously can have a significant affect the server. As a rule-of-thumb, limit the number of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer." Which is problematic...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Provide CVE tracking also for the IBM HTTP Server incl. web server plugin #emea #dach

Next to tracking the CVEs for tWAS and Liberty incl. JDK, it would also help if WSA could also track the CVEs for IBM HTTP Server incl. web server plugin.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Step to retrieve/read version status

Need a capability to retrieve/read the Component version status. Currently only Add/Remove version status steps exist. However there the no way to access this status programmatically by using a property or plugin step. The status gets used in Envi...
3 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5

REST API to manage the authentication tokens

We have been exploring automation solutions to manage the renewal of UrbanCode authentication tokens via REST APIs. However, we have encountered a limitation as the current REST API offerings do not fully support our requirements. At present, the ...
about 2 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review