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Pinned ideas

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

All ideas

Make UrbanCode FEDRAMP certified

We are not seeing UrbanCode certified in the FEDRAMP marketplace
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Add new option to IBM WAS and Liberty to allow customers to configure WAS/Liberty to not close HTTP connections when WAS/Liberty are sending back response where the HTTP response code is greater than 399

We are making heavy use of IBM z/OS Connect and IBM z/OSMF. We have found that when a request fails in zCEE and zOSMF, the underlying Liberty product sends back a HTTP response code greater than 399 and closes the HTTP connection from the client. ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

Add the missing WAS cell stop and start processes needed to complete apply some configuration changes.

Some configuration changes require more part of a WAS cell to be stopped and started to apply some configuration changes. Everyone would benefit from it. It is not helpful to have process pallet widgets to change WAS configurations and then not ha...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under consideration

Using RFT 3270 scripts with Jenkins

We are unable to start RFT playback triggered from a Jenkins server, when Jenkins is running as a Windows service on the Jenkins node. However this works fine when Jenkins node is connected running a JNLP file in a browser or via CLI.
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 3 Future consideration

Deployment execution permission by environment

Permissons could be given for Phases (Release Process>>Lifecycles>>Phases) Release templates need for to control "Default Deployment Plan" structure Multiple deployment can start together.
about 8 years ago in Heritage / Release 2 Not under consideration

New Feature "Asset Type" to be added to the downloaded report.

If I use the “Activity Audit” then select “Asset downloaded” I get the report attached. However, this report do not include all necessary information. We will need at least to add the “Asset Type” on this report to be functional for our purposes, ...
over 5 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 3 Planned for future release

Support for a more recent version of Windows Server (2019).

We are currently looking at installing Design Room One and see the system requirements for Windows Servers is currently at 2016. We have been working on getting our Windows Servers at the 2019 level. Do see this happening soon where the system req...
over 2 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 1 Future consideration

64 bit JRE for Rational Change

In a Change environment with 32 bit JRE, heap space is limited to 2 GB. In a Change instance with > 100 users online and frequent exchange with other interfaces, this memory does not suffice. It should be possible to use 64 bit JRE in Change, e...
over 5 years ago in Heritage 5 Not under consideration

RSARTE:Documentation Generation

It would be nice to generate a document file out of the RSARTE Model, from the UML elements. So the information of the function is structured to the related to the functionality. As an output a state diagram and a related textual description could...
over 5 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Future consideration

Support for the Fortran programming language in Urban Code Deploy is needed.

The current GA release of UCD does not support the Fortran programming language. This is a requirement for usage of UCD in our Enterprise environment.
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Not under consideration