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Bring your own AES-256 key for Liberty Secrets

This feature will allow customers to bring their own AES 256 key by providing it as a base64 string in a new property (at the time of writing (wlp.aes.encryption.key)
17 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Delivered

Liberty z/OS - SyncToOSThread available for EJBs

We would like to have the SyncToOSThread implemented also to the EJBs. Unfortunally the Liberty code does not look at the EJB deployment descriptors for the env-entry to enable SyncToOSThread, only within the webapp (WAR) deployment descriptors. T...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Request to use a well-known CA or the customer’s CA to sign TLS certificates for all communications

The customer’s security policy prohibits the use of self-signed or wildcard certificates in production environments. WebSphere Automation (WSA) allows the use of the customer’s CA for UI https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ws-automation?topic=instance-con...
7 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Delivered

"Code View" should remain when model element is opened in separate editor window

Code View shows a wider context where certain model element is used. Then developer want to see implementation of the element and opens it in separate editor. When opening separate editor tab source code from Code View tab is removed. This is a bi...
7 months ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 1 Delivered

Run Application Process - Add Description as parameter

Using the generic Run Application Process to trigger a deployment on another application currently has no way to populate the description on the process that is triggered. Even passing through as Request Property will not populate the field. Add a...
7 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

Request WebSphere Automation to support products BAW and BPM with embedded WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Automation (WSA) helps my client manage the security of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere Application Server Liberty installations, including those embedded in certain IBM products. WebSphere Automation detects unresolved ...
8 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Delivered

Support for sessionAffinity in WebsphereLibertyApplication CRD

Running Liberty in RedHat Openshift enables session stickyness. This must be set on the service spec. To do that with the Liberty operator is not possible. So the property must be added to the operator. need sessionAffinity, see the doc : https://...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Delivered

Allow Annotations and Customizations in helm charts for kubernetes deployments

Many companies have annotations that are required when deploying applications in Kubernetes. It would be helpful if the helm charts supported this without having to customize the charts. In addition to annotations, there are some values that are h...
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Delivered

Agent name integration in UCD Deployment output logs for better debugging

For any deployment log in UCD, if we open the output log, few details are displayed like below under the environment.environment: AGENT_HOME=/opt/urbancode/ibm-ucdagent AH_AUTH_TOKEN=**** AH_WEB_URL=https://ucd-service.lloydsbanking.cloud:8443 AUT...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

Provide support for WXS connectivity to JDK 17 & JDK 21 application JVMs running on Websphere MoRE

We have our applications running on WebSphere 9.5.5 with java8 connecting to WebSpher eXtreme Scale cache grids seamlessly by dropping java8 wsogclient_8.6.1.6_WXS61457.jar inside WAS product lib/ext directory today. We are trying to modernize our...
11 months ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 1 Delivered