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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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Prevent submitting a snapshot deploy with component versions that have not passed Environment Gates

Deploys of Snapshots with component versions that have not passed Environment Gates fail at the time of deploy rather than preventing the submittal of the deploy. Currently, when submitting deploys for individual components (rather than through a ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Develop a plugin to integrate with SonaType Nexus Repository

Every time we create a release or deployment plan with Velocity, it would be very helpful if we know exactly what artifact is built and saved to Nexus Repository, in order to manage and trace application version. This plugin will pull (or get) dat...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 5 Future consideration

Extend Compact Agents to AIX

Managing Agents and keeping them up-to-date is hard when requirements change (like switch from Java 8 to 11). So central management of Java versions for Agents without impacting Java installations used by other applications is an essential feature...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Support token authentication (IDT) when accessing a db when using a connection pool

PCI data security is requiring servers to never expose a password when accessing a db. The industry is moving towards using JWTs (for example, a RACF IDT on z/OS) to meet this requirement. JWT eliminate the need to manage a db password in Liberty ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Requesting to include the --var and --vars-file parameters to the push step in cloud foundry plugin

Requesting to include the --var and --vars-file parameters to the push step in cloud foundry plugin
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 10 Future consideration

Links to a component process when editing an application process

It would be helpful to be able to open the specific component process page to understand what steps are taking place within it as well as to view the logs the ran the last time it had been run. This helps navigate to the relevant pages quicker in ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

The Add Links dialog should display requirements' properties

Using the 'Requirements Management Integration Feature' (delivered with Design Room ONE) and the 'Add link' dialog in RSAD, it is not easy to survey and distinguish between the requirements without being able to view the attribures. You can hover ...
over 1 year ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

Customize Remember Me option on login page

There is a remember me checkbox on the login page of Urbancode Deploy. If that option is not checked when logging in user gets logged out within 30 minutes. There are scenarios when user misses to check that option and then get logged out in betwe...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

New functionality to Restore a Backup to Dataset

The existing zOS Utilities step “Rollback Dataset Step” is capable to restore the previous version from a (automatically created) backup file. There is a rare case, that a single file from a deployment would need to be restored - in this scenario ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Set Branch name with a property on a Git Source Component

For a Git Source Component or Component Template, it would be great to set the branch name of the repository depending on some property. I would like to change the branch depending on the environment. Now I have the same component replicated for e...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5 Future consideration