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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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Allow customizations on the Admin Center pages

For Liberty allowing the addition of some text on the screens would allow to differentiate the Admin Centers so makes are not made. This would be similar to tWAS changing the console identity.
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Icon images of xml test log in Microsoft Edge should be appearred like IE

IE11 goes out of support on 15th June 2022 so we are preparing to use Edge instead but icon images of xml test result are not be appearred on Edge like IE and it is very hard to see. See attached image files:- XML_Test_Log(IE).png- XML_Test_Log(Ed...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 2 Functionality already exists

Allow mail notification scheme to send a mail to the person who triggered the deployment process

Currently, UCD only allows you to specify the recipient as a notification scheme through the roles. There are a couple of different use cases that require additional freedom: The option to specify that the mail should only be sent to the person wh...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Built-in data integrity checks for ClearCase data

Dear IBM/Rational support, We need a new feature to ensure the integrity of ClearCase data, especially for source containers. We have found out that even very simple manipulations of source containers are NOT detected by the available checks (dbch...
almost 9 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

RSA-RTE: Target RTS: Missing common types to be send over protocols

The TargetRTS only supports the CppPrimitiveDatatypes to be send over protocols without type descriptor (like int, long, float). For Modern C++ application it would be required to also support more modern types like uint64_t,std::string etc.
almost 7 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration

Need a valid message ID for CWSJY0003W in Websphere for z/OS

Hello, Whenever a disconnect happens between WAS and MQ the below message appears in WAS log: [:] CWSJY0003W We wanted to setup an alert to capture CWSJY0003W message in automations but unfortunately [:] does not look like a valid message ID that ...
about 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Add enhanced fields to 'Create Environment' UrbanCode uDeploy Plugin

Add fields to the UrbanCode uDeploy Environment plugin to account for 'inherent cleanup settings' and 'environment color' when automating environment creation. The lack of these fields adds manual tasks to automating environment creation using the...
about 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 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 4 years ago in Heritage / 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 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Provide a signal that token will expire

The created tokens within UCD will disappear from the token list after the expiration date/time, without any message or information about it in the logs. When this happens all deployments fail, where in the logging no clear message is shown. It is...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Future consideration