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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...
1 day 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/...
2 days ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 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.
3 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, ...
3 days ago in Heritage / Build Forge Submitted

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...
8 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted

Enable Logging Throttling within Quarkus as a documented option similar to OpenLiberty

This business case argues for the value of implementing excessive logging with throttling as a control mechanism, highlighting the benefits of improved visibility, enhanced security, and optimized resource management, ultimately leading to cost sa...

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
16 days ago in WebSphere traditional Submitted

certifying the WebSphere Liberty operator into the RedHat Catalog

Requesting new ideas to facilitate the certification of the WebSphere Liberty Operator in the Red Hat Catalog. This certification is important as the operator is essential for enabling the Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) on the OpenShi...
18 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted

Support custom Eclipse options in ClearCase help browser spawned by cleartool man or the "online help" option on Windows.

In the current releases, cleartool man on windows spawns CTE... If the host is impacted by Eclipse issue https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/issues/1704 The help pages will not display correctly, possibly losing the table of co...
29 days ago in Heritage / ClearCase Submitted

Dry Run option for deployment steps

In our current migration process of current Mainframe aplications to our new tooling using IBM DevOps Deploy we must deploy over already existing PDSs. We want to be able to validate which PDS members, with runtime incremental deployment, will be ...
29 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted