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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Maintain all the artifacts in embedded jdk that comes with WAS 8.5.5

Per the technote, the Java orb.properties, java.policy, and cacerts files are non-serviceable in WAS v8.5.5 (e.g. they are not updated). The files are serviceable in the Java SDK provided for WAS 9.0 and Liberty. WebSphere Application Server Java ...
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Support for OAuth 2.1 in WebSphere Liberty

Support for OAuth 2.1 in Liberty for CloudPak Foundational Services to adopt. OAuth 2.1 is a more hardened version and it is critical for CPFS to support this for its adopters. CPFS uses Liberty as its OpenID connect provider and its based on OAut...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

A very high volume of messages written to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server.

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...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Future consideration

Masking specific field values directly at the test level in DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (DTIA)

Currently, DTIA does not support masking the field values directly at the test level. It does support data masking method at both at schema and non-schema levels which can be applied only when you attempt recording traffic. Ie; Currently DTIA supp...
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Workbench 1 Future consideration

Java - Support AES key from ICSF for encryption

We aim for an encryption with an AES key stored in CKDS dataset, hence protected with ICSF. The targeted flow would be as follows: 1. Create an AES key in CKDS2. Create a Java application that can read the key and perform encryption and decryption...
8 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

We would like to have an SMF-record written for every MDB-request executed in a Liberty server

In traditional WAS we make use of the 120.9 record to analyze our different kind of WAS-load, regarding problem determination, cpu consumption, performance and transaction volumes.We want to do the same in Liberty, but are there delimited by just ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

wsAtomicTransaction always enabled in Liberty

tWAS allows the use of policy sets which the customer has used to control whether WS-AT is active for individual web service endpointsLiberty does not have this function (policy sets)Liberty enables/disables WS-AT based on the presence or absence ...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Pass tag values into the "Notes" column of the default DTIA report that appears under "Result Gallery"

There is an existing 'Notes' column in the default DTIA report that you see under "Results Gallery". DTIA should allow users to tag or populate values in this column for each store or transaction preferably allowing the test executions label thems...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Workbench 0 Future consideration

Python 3.4 Security Vulnerability

Python 2.7.15 is used within PureApp (FW 2.3.2.0.) currently in production within client. This Python version and versions up to 3.4 show security issues CVE-2013-4238, CVE-2013-1752. Vulnerability has been known since 2015.Pls see description PMR...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Future consideration

Liberty z/OS MQ jms credentials propagation

Hello IBM, We have applications which run in Liberty z/OS and communicate with MQ by bindings (memory to memory). We would expect that these applications would send the end-user credentials to MQ. The same applications run in WAS z/OS traditional ...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration