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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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Provide property to allow skipping of group membership lookup during login

We see a 20-120 second delay during login to our BAW (Business Automation Workflow) application which uses WebSphere 8.5.5.xTrace indicates the time is consumed before ever reaching the application, by WebSphere security code doing full traversal ...
8 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Implementing WSSubject.getRootLoginException() in Liberty

We are migrating an existing JEE application from WebSphere Traditional to Liberty, and the current application has a custom user registry module. In WebSphere Traditional, we can call WSSubject.getRootLoginException() to get the root cause of log...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Add WAS z/OS support up to Db2 z/OS v13 FL50x for the sibDDLGenerator.sh script

The full details and background, etc., can be found in the Support Case TS017121234 The DDL produced by the WAS z/OS sibDDLGenerator.sh script is no longer valid; this manifested itself during our testing with Db2 v12 z/OS at FL504. Furthermore, t...
9 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

For WebSphere Application Server to support LDAP Channel Binding for end user authenticaion

Using Enble the LDAP Channel binding will help us to end user authention in IBM Websherer Application Server and its proves more secure in centralized authentication mechanism.
9 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Separate build messages for multiple TC builds

Make it possible to build several TCs in parallel and report build messages in a way so it can be understood to which TC build each message belongs, both while the builds are running and after they have finished.
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Model RealTime 0 Future consideration

organize sources should support non-capsule transformations

for capsule components it presumable builds a dependency tree based on relationships from the top capsule non-capsule components don't have a 'top capsule', but some way of designating the 'main-class' should be able to work similarly
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Model RealTime 0 Future consideration

Improve and simplify the setup of Liberty InstantOn including a better step-to-step guide

The openliberty.io page is great to provide some guidance on implementing Liberty InstantOn. The problem I find is the guide is a little too high level. I had to restort to much searching to find githib labs and other documents to actually complet...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Better error reporting for Liberty InstantOn

I have been working with WebSphere Liberty InstantOn in OpenShift on the X86 and Power-10 platforms. One of the most challenging aspects revolves around the error reporting of both OpenShift errors and more specifically the CRIU errors. It has bee...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

CVEs page also displaying associated PH

The PH fix or fixpack information isn't displayed until a person clicks on a particular CVE from the CVEs page, then selects a server to fix, clicks on "Prepare Fixes", select either Fix or Fixpack and then it is displayed what will be installed. ...
11 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 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...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Future consideration