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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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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...
over 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Need automated cleanup for folder inside /opt/udeployha/agent/var/work/SourceConfig

We had issue with our nam relayWe have 8 nam relays on our UCD1 enviornment and they all have one folder /opt/udeployha/agent/var/work/ SourceConfig which is occupying more than 10G on each 8 relay IBM asked us to cleanup the files under /opt/udep...
over 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

OpenJPA and SQL Limits

As per PMR 13287,842,758 Currently running WAS for z/OS 8.5.5.14. One of our development teams complains a misbehaviour of Websphere's AS JPA embedded implementation on setting the lower limit of the number of results in criteria query. They say t...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 5 Not under consideration

Add function to adjust the width of the table cell showing VP comparison result in unified report

In Details pane of unified report, tables showing data grid VP result display actual/expected data in fixed-width cells. Long data cannot be fully displayed in a cell, and short data has too much space. Both cases degrade readability.
almost 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 2 Future consideration

Need to have Smart Card support restored for Rational Performance Tester

Beyond versions 9.5, smart card support was removed from the products due to a transition with the underlying JRE. Support for Smart Cards remains a requirement for US government clients and should be restored as quickly as possible.
almost 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 3 Not under consideration

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 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Add ICSF Use Count to SMF 123 records

Add the ICSF use count (ICSF*CRYPTO*INSTRUCTONS*COUNT) to the SMF123 records for z/OS Connect EE API counts. This is important to track the impact of requestor configurations like "idletimeout" values on the number of calls to the ICSF service whe...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

support for creating OpenAPI3.1 yaml

a recent update was made to the OpenAPI spec that enhances the JSON Schema support. This is OpenAPI3.1
over 2 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer for WebSphere 1 Future consideration

Internet explorer version 11 support for Rational asset manager 7.5.2

Rational Asset Manager doesn't Support internet explorer version 11
over 12 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 2 Planned for future release

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.
over 7 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration