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Add official support for .NET 10 applications in RFT / DevOps Test UI

Our team is planning to automate desktop applications built on .NET 10 using IBM Rational Functional Tester / DevOps Test UI. Currently, the latest supported and tested .NET version is 8. We request official certification and support for .NET 10 a...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI Under review

Improve RHEL 8 lifecycle support on Cloud Pak System

We are not in a position to get a RHEL 8.x minor release rolled out at scale within the 2 years of EUS provided by Red Hat (please also refer to the uploaded diagram: IBM CPS – RHEL 8 lifecycle challenge.pdf): - Red Hat provides 2 years of EUS (ex...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System Planned for future release

Allow to rename WebSphere traditional server-name

The renaming of WAS server-name is not support, the rename in WAS of hostname, Cell and node is supported. A reason that need to rename server name: There are times that there is a mistake in WAS server-name that it was built and a rename of serve...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere traditional Under review

MoRE support for tWAS on z/OS

MoRE support to tWAS to z/OS to help ease the transition to Liberty z/OS.

Allow custom process/request properties to be injected into inProps for any step

Currently in IBM DevOps Deploy, step scripts (such as Groovy steps) can only access properties provided in inProps by the plugin infrastructure. Properties from other scopes (process, request, or previous step outputs) are not available unless the...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

WebSphere Application Server Support for HashiCorp Vault usage

Our organization mandates the use of HashiCorp Vault to store and retrieve passwords. For Applications hosted on WebSphere Application Server, there is no direct support to make use of HashiCorp Vault to store/retrieve database password as part of...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Update z/OS Logging to support wildcards in message specification e.g. CWKK* or CWKK10%%

For automation we require certain error messages in z/OS Connect (A liberty application) to be routed to the system log. The current specification for hardCopyMessage and wtoMessage as part of the Configuration properties for logging on z/OS see h...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Needs more information

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...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Display the Keyring in the JOBLOG for Liberty servers running on z/OS

Currently we can't see what Keyring the Liberty servers are using from the JOBLOG in SDSF. This would help us see what Keyrings need to be updated with renewed certificates rather than manually checking the Liberty server files.
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under 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...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration