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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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Application does not notify user of last login time and date

the customer identified this as a high risk situation, IBM provided the following response. Application does not notify user of last login time and date Ans: This seems to be a RFE, not a security vulnerability. Its a good to have feature but not ...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Azure Kubernetes Service plugin for UrbanCode Deploy

We need a plugin to work with AKS (Azure Kuberentes Service). The plugin should be able to conenct to the Azure service, control deployments to AKS, configure and manage Kubernetes resources etc.
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Not under consideration

Azure plugin for UrbanCode Deploy

We need a plugin that would provide tasks to deploy and control applications running on Azure Cloud and Azure App Service (deploying, starting, stopping and controlling WebApps, managing applications and Azure resources, executing Azure CLI comman...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Impement scripted incremental deployments of UCD configuration

Enhance UCD in order to allow scripted incremental deployments of UCD configuration instead of only GUI based modifications or a complete replace of a template.
almost 6 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Enable Options to store old config backups out of WAS installation Directory during restoreConfig.bat

IBM team in Case TS006197127, has requested below To remove old backup configurations as we noticed the issues with that in the past. However we still see you keep old config backups under the profile please remove them from that folder and store ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud - manual VPC selection when creating new WAS environment

We're currently using/evaluating the WAS traditional build template on VSI v2.1.0 and have noticed you have to use a unique vpc_name in its build configuration. In an IBM multi cloud heterogeneous environment, it would great if you had the option ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

Support OAuth token hashing and encryption

The OAuth/OpenID Connect provider relies on database/volumn encryption to protect access token and associated user data, which is insufficient to prevent data breach. The OAuth bearer access_token represents user credential, and should be protecte...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Custom Health Investigations

Custom investigations (events and runbook jobs). Provide a means to tie together "custom events" with "custom actions", analogous to custom health policies in WAS ND Intelligent mgmt. Gives us a fallback answer for everything that is not built in ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

z/OS IHS Apache - document error log messages

Most IBM components and products come with messages manuals that provide thorough documentation of messages issued by the product. I haven't found any such doc for the z/OS IHS based on Apache. Doc should provide message text and level, explanatio...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

Maven Resolve modification to handle Maven Snapshots in Nexus

We are using Nexus to store our Maven Snapshot and Release versions and were not planning to also store them in code station. This works well with release versions, but with snapshot versions the udeploy maven plug in doesn't treat the snapshots d...
over 8 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration