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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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Monitor UCD token expiry

As part of continuous deployments we have created tokens for external users(gitlab,jenkins) to connect to UCD and perform the deployments. we have very large footprint of applications using UCD to perform deployments for which we have created bunc...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

UCV executor plugin to return valid http status code

This plugin returns 200 every single time, even if the deployment can't be started or if there's something wrong with the json data that gets passed. The plugin is supposed to respond with an error if the incorrect data gets passed (e.g. pipeline ...
3 months ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 0 Submitted

Python 3.7.6 Cloud Pak System Supported

Supportability for Python 3 on PureApps/Cloud Pak Systems to execute cli commands to integrate with upstream and downstream products is currently unsupported.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration

Zero outage when applying patches

Currently when a patch is provided by product team we have to do complete outage of UCD that includes below steps Enable maintenance mode Pause all running deployments Stop all deploy server nodes Apply patch and start all deploy server nodes Disa...
6 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

ClearQuest install should check for existence of dependent libraries and error or warn if they're not present

Our ClearQuest prerequisites mention this requirement, but the ClearQuest install is allowed to complete (without any error or warning), even when these dependent libraries are not present. This yields errors when running the product after the "su...
over 3 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Report/ Data on Application Process Request level details of each deployment

Report/ Data on Application Process Request level details of each deployment which includes Duration of each step eg: Acquire lock API or CLI to get the report on application process request step along with lock details
3 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Needs more information

Retain sorting of resource properties in batch mode as is selected in table mode

Retain sorting of resource properties in batch mode as is selected in table mode or make alphabetical ascending sort as default, to match the behavior in versions prior 7.x.
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Decoupling WebSphere Application Server patterns and Cloud Pak System releases

Currently, IBM used to deliver a new version of the WebSphere Application Server Pattern type as part of the default content for new CPS releases. WebSphere Application Server Pattern type is actually composed of 2 artefacts: - the WebSphere Appli...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1

Resurrect the IBM UrbanCode Deploy and Release Mobile App

In our environment, we had used the IBM UrbanCode Release and Deploy App and it was well received. Since it was retired, I receive contact feedback about how much of a "pain" it is for approvers to have to either log into UrbanCode Deploy to execu...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Not under consideration