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WebSphere Automation

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Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing these fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updating to each application server on that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signi...
6 months ago in WebSphere Automation 3 Not under consideration

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 4 Not under consideration

Add the ability to install Quarterly Fixpacks to the menu choices in the WebSphere Automation tool.

90% of our application maintenance activities are updating WebSphere products via Fixpack upgrade. We do not install fixes unless there is the rare emergency. So the product does not provide enough bandwidth to be considered as a viable new produc...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to export events of WebSphere Automation to ELK

Customer requests audit trail at the server level and the events to be sent to ELK; events such as: 1. When a CVE is added to the database 2. When a particular server is scanned and first flagged with the CVE (e.g. due to a newly announced CVE or ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Provision for Configure Automated Emailer for Audit Reports generation in PDF Format and Manual Export of Report in PDF

Provision for Configure Automated Emailer for Audit Reports generation in PDF Format and Manual Export of Report in PDF. Audit Team doesn’t accept the CSV based reports as those are editable so it would be better if the Audit Reports generation ha...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
2 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Export to PDF format (all assets, single server information)

At present, information can be exported as a CSV (comma separated values) format. Exporting the same data in PDF form would also be useful.
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Show the Liberty features in the server details UI

Since Liberty features are used to determine security vulnerability, the server details UI should show the feature configuration. Any details that are used to determine the security posture of the server should be displayed on the server details p...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS monitoring

SSL/TLS certificate expiration is a common IT problem. The expiration could be on certificates used directly by WAS or by services WAS is dependent on.
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support WSA deployed to Power (ppc64)

WebSphere Automation supports deployment to OpenShift on Intel / AMD (x64) and IBM Z Linux (s390x) platforms. This RFE is a request to support IBM Power (ppc64) platforms.
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration