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Support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 in IBM HTTP Server 9.0

The HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocols support improves performance in the servers and the applications, increases security and user experience as well. There protocols offer better deal with multiple simultaneous connections using lower latency and enha...
4 days ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

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...
16 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

password decoding funcationality via command line instead of application

no need to install the application explicitly to decode the password and helpful during critical situations when in need to validating passwords. SImilar to traditional websphere even if we have funcationality to decode the password it would be he...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Allow Snapshot Creation from Actual Current Inventory During Active Deployment Execution

Currently, when a snapshot is created during an Application Process using APIs such as: /cli/snapshot/createSnapshotOfEnvironment the generated snapshot reflects the deployment's target inventory ("Versions to Deploy") rather than the actual versi...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Automated deploy with snap integration and rollback feature.

We want to offer our customers to deploy to production environments in a scheduled way, with access control and automatic change management. As it is going through change management approval in snap/service now in our case it is allowed for develo...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Continuing where left off after a crash or broken out of scan

Large environments may have tens or hundreds of applications, which may take hours or days to scan. If a crash or for some reason the process of scanning was interrupted it would be good to continue where the scan left off. This way the past work ...
3 months ago in App Runtime Tooling Not under consideration

Allow a transport to be excluded from the plug-in generation

To allow separation of applications on different thread pools (and associated transports), it would be useful to be able to specify which transport(s) propagate to the web server plug-in and which ones don't. Be it with some custom property or els...
3 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Jakarta EE Spec for Apache Kafka Similar to Jakarta Messaging JMS

This idea is really an evolution of where I see JEE needing to add capabilities which are not present compared to other competitive solution libraries like https://spring.io/projects/spring-kafka. OpenLiberty (https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/li...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

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...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

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 months ago in Heritage / Build Forge Not under consideration