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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...
4 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

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.
6 days ago in App Runtime Tooling Submitted

websphere liberty password identification if encoded with custom aes key or default key

Hi Team, From 26.0.0.3 custom aes key implementation is enforced. https://openliberty.io/blog/2025/12/02/25.0.0.12.html#aes256 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=slia-supplying-your-own-aes-256-key-password-encryption Now as earlie...
7 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted

Historical records in Z Search to cover audit information requests for Mainframe applications

We have internal and external request for different audit processes asking when a specific version of a Mainframe file was deployed. For example, certain functionality was added to a routine and we need to know when that functionality reached prod...
7 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 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...
10 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 ...
10 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Roadmap for supporting Jakarta 10 and JPA 3.x

We need to move to at least Java 17 and have recently upgraded to RAD 10.0 for Java 17 support. We also have applications which use JPA, that will require some modernization to move to JPA 3.x/Jakarta 10; however, we have found that there is no JP...
11 days ago in Heritage / Application Developer Submitted

Getting Peak License Usage

We are occasionally asked to report our “peak” license usage. This has historically been difficult to determine because there is no persistent history tracking agent license consumption. While there is a high watermark metric (via getHighWatermark...
15 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Enable Stdout Protection – to prevent log files from being overwritten during server startups

We identified the following file, which is overwritten whenever the server is restarted: /opt/IBM/devops_deploy/server/var/log/stdout This file contains information that differs from deployserver.out and is valuable for debugging purposes. Current...
15 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Websphere liberty AES256 custom key in xml not secured

Issue Details From 26.0.0.3 Default key usage is removed from Liberty for usage along with securityUtility command for AES256 encoding of passwords New Solution delivered in 25.0.0.12 for appending our own custom AES key for encryption of password...
20 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

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