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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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Resizeable or larger text fields in Manual Task windows

We use a "Manual Task" step in one of our deployment processes and we would like to display the value of a property in the Respond window. However, the window is not wide enough to show the full text without scrolling. Showing the full property in...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information

Add ddvipa support for ucd z/OS agent

Today ucd agent doesn't have ddvipa support according to TS019560454. For the maintainability it would be good to have possibility to set up z/os ucd agent with ddvipa support. Ddvipa has possibilities to quickly switch over traffic to other agent...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

Mandatory Version Selection when starting UCD Deployment

While working on the UCD deployments, we have noticed that it is possible to run a deploy process without adding a component version. This is usually done unintentionally. So the idea here is to make the version selection a mandatory process by ei...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information

Add feature to configure Enable/Disable System Dump from admin console

WAS admin console users have the ability to take System dumps and causes issues in production during peak traffic. Requesting a feature added so WAS admins can configure to enable or disable in production environments.
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Implementing a Zero Downtime Upgrade Mechanism for IBM Services

Currently, IBM’s upgrade process for certain services requires downtime, even in high-availability (HA) setups, due to shared database and filesystem dependencies. This limitation affects critical business operations, leading to potential service ...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Java 11 support for WAS ND

I'm working for an Insurance Group, currently responsible of the implementation of Guidewire Insurance suite (https://www.guidewire.com/products/insurancesuite), which is a World Class application developed in Java. We'd implemented the Guidewire ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

Plugin Mongo DB for UCD Deploy

Our application teams would like to have possibility to deploy SQL files to MongoDB database. Plugin should work similar to MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle plugins that already exist in UCD.
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information

Require Ansible playbooks to deploy and manage WAS ND deployments

Client is using CP4WAIOPS Infrastrututure Management to deploy and manage WAS ND. When they used the tooling in the past they had used Chef cookbooks to build and deploy WAS ND systems. Since IBM Purchaed RH, the CloudPak has indicated that Chef i...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log

In the customer's WASv8.5.5.20 system, they have observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log. Referring the WAS code, it just subtract System.currentTimeMillis from the previous System.currentTimeMillis. We were...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration