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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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Reporting and cleanup of agents

We name nearly all agents for the hostname. We have hosts get retired but the agent still shows in the console as offline. We currently have inexact and processes to check ServiceNow to see if it's retired, ,and then come back to see for those tha...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

In AMA Dev Tools, support multi-module projects with no defined "application root"

This has come up a few times, nost recently with CE in this thread: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C07S61EMFKP/p1747943622417809 In AMA Dev tools, the application root is defined as the ear or war for the project. There must be exactly 1 war...
6 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Future consideration

Offline mode for running recipes in AMA Dev Tools

"We want to use WCA in a network restricted environment where the developer workstation with VS Code has access to WCA but not to sources like maven central or GitHub for example. Two of the use cases are "Modernize to Liberty" and "Upgrade Java"....
6 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 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

SSL Handshake should not fail if CRLDP present in certificate is not reachable

We have observed one behavior in WAS traditional after enabling CRL. When any certificate presented to WAS for authentication and having CRLDP which is not reachable then SSL HANDSHAKE failed with below exception.Caused by: javax.naming.Communicat...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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

App expanded folder auto cleanup

When applications deployed to a Liberty server are expanded, e.g. <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> the expanded war and ear files are not deleted when the corresponding application is stopped and removed from the Liberty server.An exp...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Host an IBM-per-Customer Maven-Repository to download the WLP license files

Currently, downloading the WLP license files (base/core) requires manual steps: Logging in to IBM Browsing through Download Central Clicking through a set of sites Downloading the license Verifying the signature Re-Uploading to our internal reposi...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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 ...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Provide CICS and IMS Testing and Service Virtualization capabilities to Test Hub

Mainframe customers will not be able to transition to Test Hub until protocol support for CICS and IMS is supported
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Hub 0 Future consideration