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WebSphere Application Server Support for HashiCorp Vault Usage

Please note this is the same as previous RFE 149411 Our Cyber team’s latest compliance requirement mandates that datasource passwords are rotated every 180 days. To meet this, we’re exploring HashiCorp Vault to manage and rotate JDBC datasource cr...
2 days ago in WebSphere traditional Submitted

Update the Technology Report to include Portlets

Today AMA/TA do not show Portlets in the technology report and it gives a false idea of all the technologies being used. Since tWAS still supports the technology it would be good to show that it is not supported in Liberty and not have to find out...
8 days ago in App Runtime Tooling Submitted

Create more than 1 zip file while processing with the Discovery Tool

The Discovery Tool on TA/AMA may take days to run, depending on the number of applications in a WebSphere Cell. The resulting zip file may be too large to upload and process by the taserver pd/container thus resulting in an error, most likely an O...
12 days ago in App Runtime Tooling Future consideration

generate .settings files for generated CDT projects to hold things like explicit encoding set

eliminates workspace problem markers, either hardcode to UTF-8, or have encoding be something driven by some .tcjs value selectable from TC editor
15 days ago in Heritage / Model RealTime Submitted

AI Extension to different models like Copilot, Gemini

Need to have the AI extension for Devops Deploy to other models like Copilot and Gemini. We use Copilot inside organization and this will help us explore the feature and benefits integrated. Thanks
16 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Instana for z/OS (zAPM) Tracing support for WOLA on Liberty

We are currently using WebSphere z/OS with WOLA (OTMA CI) to access IMS transactions and this is our major way into IMS. We are considering migrating to WebSphere Liberty z/OS. We have Instana Distributed as an observability solution and are inter...
17 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Remove broken references on model level

For broken references that have no supplier, it should be possible to remove them on a model level, instead of having to remove them one by one.
18 days ago in Heritage / Model RealTime Submitted

Allow liberty to resolve domain names via DNS

Currently we are providing domain name resolution via the hosts file in the liberty path. But this requires manual changes every time a domain name is added.
18 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Needs more information

On z/OS, provide an alternative to protecting an LTPA key that does not require a password.

To provide a much more secure method of implementing LTPA keys on z/OS utilizing the security applicable to Mainframe.On z/OS, provide an alternative to protecting an LTPA key that does not require a password.
19 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Terminate the Liberty server when a stop server request is received while MDB application has been running longer than the configured timeout value.

Backgrounds Customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/OS t...
19 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

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