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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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To configure AD Group in UCD instead of individual members added

To configure AD Group in UCD instead of individual members added, So can we sync the Ad group to UCD groups which reduces effort on adding individual members.
28 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Submitted

To support z/OS Liberty container in z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP)

My client is evaluating the feasibility of modernizing his traditional WebSphere on z/OS applications to run in WebSphere Liberty servers. Each application has numerous customized security profiles in RACF, and it is desirable to reuse these profi...
4 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Enable test authors to move test scripts between packages during refactoring

When refactoring code, it often becomes necessary to change the package structure. When RFT test scripts are organised in Java packages, it may also be required to refactor the layout of those packages. Assume that we have an RFT project and creat...

Add funtionality to Liberty so Handling of WAR manifest class paths is the same between tWAS and Liberty Deployments

Useful for anyone trying to migrate from tWAS to Liberty using ear files with mainfest class path outside WAR. Behavior difference between WAS traditional and Liberty regarding the handling of WAR manifest class paths. In WAS traditional, class pa...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

UCD agent last contact date for offline agent should show when it went offline

The last_contact displayed in UI is always updated based on Agent status, UI reports the current time as the last connect time while the agent is online but reverts to the "last connect time" saved in the DB when it is offline. In this case if an ...
2 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Add a feature to allow connection between UCD and a suitable data warehouse to archive and retrieve history table.

Add a feature to allow connection between UCD and a suitable data warehouse to archive and retrieve history table. We don’t want to perform archive outside UCD interface (meaning directly from UCD DB to Solix), as data once moved out – auditors qu...
about 1 month ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Submitted

WASPreUpgrade command allowed on the same version

Currently the WASPreUpgrade command is not allowed on the same version, so we must have two different versions installed on the same server or IBM i and run the command from the new version, entering the old version as a parameter. In scenarios of...
3 months ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Submitted

Use systemd to run UCD deployserver and agentrelay as a service in Linux servers

We have been using init.d to run our UCD deployservers and agentrelay as service in our Linux servers, but systemd could be used as an alternative of init.d because it is a backward compatibility for RHEL 7 or above servers.
about 2 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0

Improve RHEL 8 lifecycle support on Cloud Pak System

We are not in a position to get a RHEL 8.x minor release rolled out at scale within the 2 years of EUS provided by Red Hat (please also refer to the uploaded diagram: IBM CPS – RHEL 8 lifecycle challenge.pdf): - Red Hat provides 2 years of EUS (ex...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Planned for future release

"Download All" button to download version placed in an external repository

UCD displays a "Download All" button to downlad the zip version file and be able to inspect it, but it only works if the version is stored in Codestation. When the version is stores in an external repository, it only downloads an xml metadata file...
29 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration