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Post quantum cryptography for tWAS and IHS

Once quantum computing is used, some current encryptions may no longer be considered as secured. WAS and IHS may need to implement post quantum cryptography to be secured.
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional Planned for future release

Additional properties for the UrbanCode git plugin

We need to have more customization in our git config and would like to be able to configure that through the component properties on our git components.
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Planned for future release

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 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System Planned for future release

wsAtomicTransaction always enabled in Liberty

tWAS allows the use of policy sets which the customer has used to control whether WS-AT is active for individual web service endpointsLiberty does not have this function (policy sets)Liberty enables/disables WS-AT based on the presence or absence ...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Planned for future release

Support FIPS 140-3 for z/OS

The IBMJCEPlusFIPS cryptography module was certified for FIPS 140-3 by NIST in August 2024 and is supported on most platforms (as mentioned in the Operational environments section) for production use in IBM SDK for Java 8.0.8.30 or later. The IBMJ...
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional Planned for future release

Need ability to visualize MDB activity and performance in Liberty [MONITOR]

Have historically made use of MDB's in addition to HTTP driven services in tWAS , but after starting the migration to Liberty we have no means to actively i real time visualize performance or even occurrence of activity regarding MDB's.We would li...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Planned for future release

Commercially Support WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Container Apps

WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty are currently not commercially supported on Azure Container Apps. This is due to license validation challenges. This has proven to be a blocker for a number of IBM and Microsoft customers including Legal & Ge...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Planned for future release

Provide mTLS support in web utilities plugin for REST HTTP calls

currently web utilities plugin supports basic authentication only for HTTP calls and this does not meet our security standards for automation.
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Planned for future release

Eclipse 4.32 support for ClearCase 10.0.1.x

The customer is one of the biggest WAS customer in Japan, having over 40,000PVUs inventory. They uses ClearCase 10.0.1.0 for SCM. To upgrade Java IDE, they plan to use Eclipse 4.32 and IBM Liberty Developer Tools. But now, ClearCase 10.0.1.0 - 10....
over 1 year ago in Heritage / ClearCase Planned for future release

Process Execution for managed Liberty servers to customize umask, runtime user & group definitions

Traditional WAS allows process execution panel to customize Umask settings (eg: 027) , "Run As User" (eg: runtime service id) & "Run As Group"(primry group for rutime service ID), MoRE doesn't have the feature for managed Liberty server, leavi...
7 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java Planned for future release