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Provide the ability to suppress selected messages completely, simiar to "hideMessage" but causing messages to be completely suppresed.

It has been found that the writing of a very high volume of messages to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server. In this case, the z/OS Connect product running within a Liberty server was w...
26 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Submitted

WASPreUpgrade command allowed on the same version

Currently the WASPreUpgrade command is not allowed on the same version, so we must have two different versions installed on the same server or IBM i and run the command from the new version, entering the old version as a parameter. In scenarios of...
8 months ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Submitted

WebSphere ND Primary FID (wasinternaluser) should disable in console (not from backend)

We are the internal WebSphere ND engineering team at Citi, responsible for automating end-to-end installations across the global Citi network, encompassing over 10,000 servers. Approximately one year ago, Citi's security team raised concerns regar...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Including Installation Manager updates

When patching WebSphere environments with Installation Manager there is an option to check for IM updates, there doesn't appear to be an option for that in WSA. It would be beneficial to have the option to update the Installation Manager software ...
12 days ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Submitted

CVEs page also displaying associated PH

The PH fix or fixpack information isn't displayed until a person clicks on a particular CVE from the CVEs page, then selects a server to fix, clicks on "Prepare Fixes", select either Fix or Fixpack and then it is displayed what will be installed. ...
12 days ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Submitted

Allow multiple CVE fixes

As part of the installing the fix process on WebSphere Automation, the server is restarted after the fixpack is applied. When you have multiple CVEs to apply, the servers are restarting a lot and sometimes that takes more time waiting for the rest...
12 days ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Submitted

Critcal need for passticket or IDT connection to Db2 for z/OS using persitent timer with zLiberty

Currently, the persistent timer in zLiberty only supports a password connection to Db2 for z/OS. This is very problematic for customers as it requires an outage for zLiberty whenever you need to change the persistent timer ID's password. We have a...
17 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Improve and simplify the setup of Liberty InstantOn including a better step-to-step guide

The openliberty.io page is great to provide some guidance on implementing Liberty InstantOn. The problem I find is the guide is a little too high level. I had to restort to much searching to find githib labs and other documents to actually complet...
12 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Better error reporting for Liberty InstantOn

I have been working with WebSphere Liberty InstantOn in OpenShift on the X86 and Power-10 platforms. One of the most challenging aspects revolves around the error reporting of both OpenShift errors and more specifically the CRIU errors. It has bee...
12 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Provide support for MQ Classes for JMS in Liberty

RFE to provide support for MQ Classes for JMS in Liberty: Migrating Applications from tWAS that use MQ Classes for JMS or MQ Classes for Java to another J2EE environment not supported for Liberty, but is supported for any other J2EE environment. A...
18 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted