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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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Enhance ClearQuest 9.0 to support protected channel for file attachment transmission

Currently the system uses FTP to upload/download file attachment. Having reviewed by our Information Security team that it is insecure way to transmit file. The transmission of file should be through a protected channel such as encrypted FTP. Plea...
almost 6 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Under review

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...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Future consideration

Deliver signed eclipse.exe with Rational test tool packages

Security policies on government provided laptops allow only approved applications to be run elevated. The eclipse.exe delivered and installed as part RPT is unsigned. Every time a new, unsigned version of eclipse.exe is included in a tool upgrade,...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 1 Future consideration

Track the lifecycle of OSLC Requests

Bosch would like to be able to have a live monitoring view of OSLC requests, who made them (CQ user / IP address / correlation IDs such as JSESSIONID), what they are requesting, how long they are running / how long they took to run for some buffer...
almost 6 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Allow to increase the size for an existing Short Text field in ClearQuest from

Currently in ClearQuest ALM Schema, size of the Short Text field cannot be extended after a version is checked in. But there are reasosns where field size needs to be increased due to Business Needs. Truncating the size might cause an issue for al...
almost 9 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 4 Future consideration

Licensing Fault does not specify if relays or application servers are losing license connectivity.

If you have 600 agents, an admin cares more if the application server or the agent relays cant connect to the license server. Now if one agent looses license the error message makes the tool look unstable. It needs more detail. Needs more granular...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

ucv oauth mfa

currently we are using AD for access to ucv, this is not acceptable as SSA security requirements increase. We need to use MFA and Oauth will meet that requirement. When will ucv support OAuth
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 0 Planned for future release

ACL in a new VOB

The NT ACLs are causing more overhead to maintain I would like to request the following:1. A site environment switch to no have ACLs on new vobs.2. The GUI interface to select a feature level like 7 (so ACLs are not turned on) 3. Ability to link a...
about 9 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Alter the metrics.ear app to show metrics per instance in zOS WAS ND

Hi, We use WebSphere AS ND in zOS platform. In version 9.0.5, it comes with a metrics.ear app to expose metrics in prometheus format. The problem is that if we have multiple WAS instances configured, it sums up the metrics and in that case we cant...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Functional ID used with Buildforge requires passworfd management intergration with Cyberark.

CASE: TS002704430We have a Functional ID tpccadm that is used to connect from linux to connect the BF windows agent. We need to be able to use the FID without knowing the password.Citi has an application 'Cyberark' that manages the FID passwords. ...
about 6 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 4 Not under consideration