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OAS3 feature environment should allow any single API Specification to be retrieved to the client upon request rather than a merged document

When running z/OS Connect under the OAS2 feature in a z/OS Server with multiple APIs deployed, you can issue a request to z/OS Connect to retrieve the swagger specification from the server for the specific API you request. However under the z/OS C...
8 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

WAS for z/OS Liberty reconnects to RRS when RRS is terminated and restarted.

Backgrounds Customer is planning to migrate from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty and is validating whether or not there are some incompatibility, and also there are no problem through the extensive testing. When customer conducted...
14 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

AMA 5.0 Analysis Report should show help on modernisation

Before AMA 5.0 when going to the Analysis Report would show "Show Results" and another expansion on how to fix the issue. In AMA 5.0 the Analysis Report is blocked unless a key is presented. Even when unlocked the only option is to °Show Results° ...
18 days ago in App Runtime Tooling Under review

Enhance the Report functionality with Deployment reports based on Application & Component template

Enhance the Report functionality with Deployment reports based on Application & Component template. With options to filter based on teams, name contains, like wise
26 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Delete unused tags

The documentation says that you can't ever delete a tag. Of course this makes sense to not allow a tag to be deleted while still assigned to an agent, app etc. But that they live forever means that the list could be long if we don't implement some...
26 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere traditional Under review

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
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Implement a function to detect hanging MDB applications and interrupt their execution.

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...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

API for creating LTPA keys file

Liberty docs recommend to place the same ltpa.keys file to any liberty node reachable by your loadbalancer. For automated deployments, creation via Java API (liberty feature) is feasible. Please provide a feature (or extend PasswordUtilityies-1.0 ...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review