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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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Enable Liberty installables download through FixCentral API's

To fully automate(unmanned) Liberty software build pipelines to (1) check latest release versions and (2) download it through FixCentral, we wanted FixCentral download feature to be made available through API's, something like hosting them on deve...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

API to manage Maintenance Mode

We have the ability to create blackouts within UCD as part of the API offering. When setting a blackout period maintenance mode is automatically enabled, however when the blackout ends the maintenance mode is left on. I agree with this approach in...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Functionality already exists

VET Change Websphere security configuration to allow non-Security Admin managers to generate heapdump/javacore/core files

Websphere 8.0 introduced new functionality that allows administrators to generate heapdumps/system dump/java cores on demand.This is very useful for administrators investigating particular problem types. The default Websphere configuration means t...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Functionality already exists

Need WMB plug-in for ACE12 to deploy to ACE12 environments via UCD.

We've been using UCD WMB plug-in version 47 to deploy to IIB10 environments. Now we're migrating our interfaces to ACE12. The plug-in doesn't work for ACE12 deployment (attaching log while we're trying to deploy to ACE12 using the current plug-in)...
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 8 Functionality already exists

Support AWSSecretsManagerPostgreSQLDriver on WebSphere Liberty for AWS - EKS deployments

Deployment of an application on Websphere Liberty that uses AWS Secret Manager for password rotation. The IBM ODM team (Russell Scher) worked on this request and received some feedback from Fred Rowe in relation to the issue.
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

Client Authentication for Kafka Producer in Liberty Server

Our problem We want to run multiple java programmes (in current use case Kafka-Producers) in a single CICS Liberty Server. Authentication on Kafka-Broker side (hosted on our on-premise cloud) is done by client certificates. Our security department...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

rest api to get "all" the application process request submitted after a certain timestamp (current rest api just gives 100 records)

We have a need of preparing a report of all production deployments that were performed in last 24 hours. Current rest api available for getting the application process requests submitted after a certain timestamp only gives 100 records (max). Docu...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Functionality already exists

UCD Agent unavailable

The UCD Agents running on the UNIX boxes are going down. This forces a manual restart before UCD processes can be run. The root cause of the agents going down is not known.
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Functionality already exists

Make RFT recognize two submit buttons with the same name on Edge

[Environments]RFT 10.2.1(RFT perspective and simplified script) + Chronium Edge [Description]We migrated to RFT 10.1.2 to verify Edge because IE will EOS in June 2022.Following exception occurs in web application page which has two submit buttons ...
over 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Functionality already exists

Verification point comparator should be opened from "View Results" of test log in Edge as the same as IE

IE11 goes out of support on 15th June 2022 so we are thinking to use Edge instead but in Edge, verification point comparator doesn't open from "View Results" in the HTML and XML test log like IE. We request that verification point comparator is op...
over 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Functionality already exists