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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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SERVERWLM Support for z/OS Connect

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Changing the urban code agent cert validity from 20 years to 2 years

When UCD agent is installed an entry 'ucd-agent-id' is created in agent.keystore, by default it comes with 20 years of validity but we want this entry to be valid for a period of 2 years, so that it can be rotated. By following this we can mitigat...
8 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3

Logs For Encryption Keyrotation

With Urbancode Deploy v 7.2.3.1 a new utility is provided keyrotate which can be used to rotate encryption keystore for UCD. When running this utility no logs are generated, it only gives a summary of the key rotation at the end of the keyrotation...
10 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Create documentation for UCD plugins for z/OS

The documentation of the UCD plugins for z/OS is very poor, so we need to create our processes on try-and-error basis. The videos placed on the community are very good but, the plugins should have its own complete documentation, otherwise we are p...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Requesting a Linux/s390x build of the Packaging Utility for Installation Manager

We are interested in setting up local Installation Manager repositories that can be accessed over http/https to provide updates for WebSphere Liberty ND and IBM HTTP server products as described in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/in...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSphere and Liberty servers. It facilitates the application of security fixes one by one on each server.Some customers have hundre...
10 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Planned for future release

LTPA token timeout should respond to user activity

This is a requirement for ISO 27001 certification. This type of functionality is required by many security teams, and it is really hard to justify, explain, and get security deviations. It would be useful because users would not be harassed by fre...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Object Archival

This idea is to allow the archival of objects in UrbanCode such as, Applications, Environments, Components and Resources. We often get requests from users to remove objects that are no longer required however these objects need to be maintained du...
10 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Needs more information

Read access to Security configuration

Currently the Security configuration is not accesible in read mode. When you create a Role you can select de Configuration --> Manage Security option that allow the assigned users to manage completely the security but what happens if you only w...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Needs more information

IM albd check should use alternative to NTLM

Installation Manager (IM) currently uses legacy NTLM authentication to check for clearcase server process (albd) credentials during installation on Windows.More and more customers disable NTLM in their environment which causes albd check to fail.T...
8 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 2 Future consideration