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SHA-512 Support in WebSphere Liberty (OpenPages & Cognos)

Within a regulated financial institution in Singapore (an IBM customer), there is an enterprise-wide security mandate requiring the adoption of SHA-512 across all products to meet internal security standards and regulatory expectations. However, b...
2 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted

REST APIs of RTCP should return full information set of stubs

REST APIs returns partial of stub information, but they should return full set of information on stubs, at lease should be same information set showed in Environment page of RTCP. IBM product Doc: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/devops-test-workbench/...
3 days ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization Submitted

Add support for standard MIBs for SNMPv3

WAS 9 SNMPv3 capability is used for PMI exposure only, market standard MIBs are not used. We request to add support for standard MIBs to be used with external monitorizing tools, like PRTG
17 days ago in WebSphere traditional Submitted

Include System property changes in the audit log

It would be helpful to know when the value of a system property is changed, who changed it, and what it was set to if it is not secure.
4 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Need ability to set license timeout

We use FlexLM Floating Licenses for Build Forge. However, Build Forge holds on to a floating license for >24 hours, even when there's no activity from the user. It should be possible to release licenses in a reasonable timeframe, like 2 hours, ...
4 days ago in Heritage / Build Forge Submitted

Publish Application Modernization Accelerator in the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog

Publishing Application Modernization Accelerator in the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog streamlines Red Hat OpenShift deployment and support.
26 days ago in App Runtime Tooling Planned for future release

Implementing Transaction Propagation and Atomic EJB Transactions in Liberty

This initiative aims to enable support for transaction propagation and atomic EJB transactions within the Liberty runtime environment. These features are critical for applications currently relying on traditional Java EE behavior, and their absenc...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Ability for the plug in to leverage the sysplex distributor for the DDVIPA to determine when a systems is up

We currently have a case with IBM open on this and is effecting our production systems. If you reach out to me, i will share the case number. Not wanting to put that in the IDEA When shutting down an LPAR in a plex, and is removed by the TCPIP LEA...
3 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Graceful pause of CICS liberty port to prevent transaction loss

When a CICS liberty port was paused, we found that some API transactions are abended. We understand that when the port was paused, the TCP listener stops accepting NEW connections immediately. The channel destruction happens quickly which means th...
25 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Provide automated method to generate licensing tags when clients are not using the Liberty operator for deployment.

Most of our Liberty deployments are done using custom container build pipelines and Helm based deployments. In order to track licensing we need to tag these deployments with required meta data so the license reporter will correctly compute. One of...
9 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted