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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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can the Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries and/or the Migration Toolkit for Application Source be updated to look for setContextClassLoader calls and warn of potential class loader problems

There are slight differences within WAS and Liberty from a classloading perspective. Sometimes when applications are migrated from WAS to Liberty. You run into some TCCL issues. The solution was to delete the line of code where the context class l...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 0 Planned for future release

Customize Components execution order in component tags

Currently when user is using component tag deployment with multiple components the execution sequence is depends on the name of component(takes alphabetically). There should be an option to determine the order of execution.
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Post approval processes

UCD currently provides two ways to give a pre-approval: Manual pre-approval External process approval Ideally, we could also have the same as post-approvals. Similar to Azure Devops (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Add a parameter to BBOC START_SRVR commands to define the BBO$ user id for CICS WOLA Link Server Task

We are using BBOC START_SRVR commands to start the WOLA Link Server Tasks (BBO$) in our CICS regions. Currently, there is no parameter to define the user id, under which BBO$ is running. So, if we start the Link Server Task during the CICS startup...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Possible usage PaaS- (instead of IaaS / VM) to run UCD Application server

Currently we are using Azure Iaas for UCD Infrastructure as below Azure Linux VM (IaaS) with RHEL7 for License server and RHEL for UCD server. Azure Storage account to store shared files (appdata) which is mounted to VM Azure MS SQL as database We...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Allow encryption algorithm to be AES-256 in GCM mode for JAX-WS and JAX-RPC security runtime.

We have recently upgraded to AES-256 in CBC mode on JAX-WS and JAX-RPC security runtime for our application servers, however we are required by our cryptography standards to move to the preferred GCM mode before the end of 2021. This option does n...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Future consideration

Liberty JSR-352: Provide the ability to submit batch jobs under an alternate userid

In the JSR 352 jmsActivationSpec, possibly under the under the messageSelector, allow for the specification of an alternate predetermined userid underwhich the batch application should run under within the executor.
about 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

F29: Stop using SMBv1 protocol for communication between BMLS and AXA Windows VM

SMBV1 protocol is considered highly unsecure. It is deactivated by default on Windows 2012/2016 serverCVE-2017-0144 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0144https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/09/16/stop-using-smb...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

IBM ClearQuest 9 Search feature add a column matching the words searched

For the full search feature, it will be good to have an additional column that can show the fields that contains the keywords matching the words of the text searched or have a mechanism where we can visualize where are the words searched in each r...
almost 7 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Multi Factor Authentication for UrbanCode Deploy

Allow Multi Factor authentication for UrbanCode Deploy - IBM case TS004916674.
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration