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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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ldapregistry support to posixGroup in liberty

https://github.ibm.com/IBMPrivateCloud/roadmap/issues/10204 We are using ldapregistry in liberty to support OIDC authentication in ICP. Currently it is supporting LDAP groups with member attribute configured with full DNs, like: dn: cn=group1, cn=...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

WebSphere Audit Functionality

Using the Audit feature we want to be able to log any type of configuration change.What was the change, at what time and with what userid.Currently the only filter that allows that is “RESOURCE_ACCESS:SUCCESS ”, the problem is that it logs everyth...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

SAML SSO

To utilize SAML SSO instead of strictly using Header based SSO. In addition, to have the capability to select different options between Authorization Realm and Authentication.- Allow Authorization from AD and/or LDAP and Authentication from SSO.
over 7 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing these fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updating to each application server on that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signi...
6 months ago in WebSphere Automation 3 Not under consideration

SAML Single Sign On or Single Logout to support HTTP-Redirect Binding

Liberty seems to only support HTTP-POST binding for SAML Login and Logout based on our investigation <md:SingleLogoutService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://......." />We have configured our applica...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Use systemd to run UCD agent as a service in Linux servers

We have been using init.d to run our UCD agents as service in our Linux servers, but systemd could be used as an alertnative of init.d because it is a backward compatibility for RHEL 7 or above servers.
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Require Ansible playbooks to deploy and manage WAS ND deployments

Client is using CP4WAIOPS Infrastrututure Management to deploy and manage WAS ND. When they used the tooling in the past they had used Chef cookbooks to build and deploy WAS ND systems. Since IBM Purchaed RH, the CloudPak has indicated that Chef i...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would ...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Need WMB plug-in for ACE12 to deploy to ACE12 environments via UCD.

We've been using UCD WMB plug-in version 47 to deploy to IIB10 environments. Now we're migrating our interfaces to ACE12. The plug-in doesn't work for ACE12 deployment (attaching log while we're trying to deploy to ACE12 using the current plug-in)...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 8 Functionality already exists

Fix the issue that's causing stuck of the JWT tokens from the z/OS Liberty server

A JSON Web Token(JWT) can get stuck. It manifests as /zosmf/services/authenticate endpoint issuing a JWT with success RC that is not valid for api calls, resulting in 401 rc. This is a persistent condition. We are tracking two cases where it happe...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration