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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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webhooks access to git repo

I think what you are asking is if UCD can accept something like a repo-trigger where after a commit in Git, those changes are automatically pushed into UCD. Does this sound correct? While I know that we offer Git plugin capabilities https://www.ur...
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Liberty on z/OS - send audit logs to SMF

Facility to send Liberty Profile Audit logging directly to SMF on z/OS as much of the IBM supplied software for z already does including tWAS.
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with WAS or IHS

WAS and IHS need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Not under consideration

Migration of server database to a different database system

Some years ago a customer began adopting UrbanCode Deploy using DB2 as database system, but he doesn't have skills on DB2.Now he wants to enlarge his adoption upgrading UrbanCode Deploy to an HA configuration, he already has Oracle RAC and also he...
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Credentials are transmitted to server in plain text

Dear Team, As part of ASLC review by ICICI security team, Subjected point "Credentials are transmitted to server in plain text" is open for fix. To close this point, We have been following up with Osman (Product Team) from several months since it ...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Not under consideration

UCDP BP should support encrypt and decrypt of secure input property values

UCDP blueprint designer does not have the ability to decrypt or encrypt secure properties defined in UCD. Because of this, deployments of components that use secure properties will fail. This ability should be fully supported by UCPD blueprint des...
about 8 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Liberty zOS - improve process to determine when mapped userid does not have access to APPL

Hi in Liberty on zOS, when authenticating to an application using a client certificate, the client certificate is mapped to a RACF user id. To be able to invoke the application, the mapped RACF user id needs to have READ access to the APPL class. ...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

New category 'Technical' for application processes to remove exposure to the user

Designing the processing for our Cobol pipeline we have ran into situations when we need to start a process in another environment then the one that was requested by the user. For example when we deploy to PR we need to start a process in a test e...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Application processes only runable in certain environments

Our setup of UCD for Cobol system deployments we have some application processes that only should be run in the PR environment. It is a problem that these processes are available as a choice when deploying to a test environment because the users m...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

RSARTE: Show state machine changes in inheritance explorer

At the moment the inheritance explorer shows changes in operations, attributes and structure diagrams. Having it also show changes in the state machine (like the Project Explorer presents them) helps in analyzing what changes have been made in der...
about 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 0 Future consideration