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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 a REFRESH SECUIRTY command like MQ uses to reload certs in WebSphere on Z

The same functionality MQ used to reload certificates I would like applied to WAS. Currently you have to cycle the WAS servers to bring in certificates when they expire or need to be updated.
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

UCDP does not have option to select Softlayer Private Network end points

Hi, When UCDP Server is integrated with Soft layer with help of API Key to Soft layer, we don't have option to select which endpoint needs to be contacted. Like if the server is blocked for the public network end point due to customer requirement ...
over 10 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Adding a Second Factor Authentication (2FA+) feature on Websphere App Server and Liberty

Various IBM tools comes with WAS or Websphere liberty embedded to the product for user authentication. These products allows to have a local user authentication or LDAP user authentication, but it did not provide any feature for a Second Factor Au...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Enable tomcat.keystore reloading without 'restarting the service'

There is an example on the Web of Java code that can enable the UCD tomcat.keystore be reread periodically without have to restart the master server service. But in addition to enabling that capability, a new keystore password needs to be not only...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Run As feature for Deployments

As an UrbanCode deploy administrator, I would like the ability to "Run" processes "As" a user defined in the UCD authentication session, in order to diagnose permissions and access issues specifically for that user. This would allow us to "be" the...
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Add to the "Set Resources Property" the data type of List of Strings

We have process that must run a step on many different artifacts on a host. At this time we have to write shell code to find all the artifacts on a host. Which then must be filtered with hard coded values to exclude some hits. All this would be ma...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Would like support of Containers for ClearCase

Docker Containers are more and more becoming industry standard for distribution of Software. A ClearQuest Docker Container is already available, so would like to have also a ClearCase Docker Container available
over 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

Support of Ansible for install / upgrade CC

ClearCase is available on Linux plateform, and thus, it would be a good idea to have support of Ansible for installing / upgrading Clearcase on that plateform
over 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Not under consideration

Adding UCR to Openshift

We would like UCR to be added to Openshift
over 5 years ago in Heritage / Release 2 Not under consideration

RSARTE: Auto generate getter for type descriptor

We do a lot of checking based o type descriptors Eg D_SomeClass.getTypeDesc().isKindOf(&RTType_D_SomeBaseClass) However the getTypeDesc() is a function we have to create ourself. This is a virtual function that must be overwritten in each subc...
over 5 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Real Time Edition 0 Future consideration