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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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Allow multiple CVE fixes

As part of the installing the fix process on WebSphere Automation, the server is restarted after the fixpack is applied. When you have multiple CVEs to apply, the servers are restarting a lot and sometimes that takes more time waiting for the rest...
10 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
7 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

WASPreUpgrade command allowed on the same version

Currently the WASPreUpgrade command is not allowed on the same version, so we must have two different versions installed on the same server or IBM i and run the command from the new version, entering the old version as a parameter. In scenarios of...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Submitted

To Add "Group Owner email" Field in Urbancode Deployment

I would like to propose an enhancement to the UrbanCode Deployment (UCD) tool. Specifically, I suggest adding a new field called "Group Owner email" beside the existing "Group" field. Path: Settings -> Authorization (Groups) -> Groups Curren...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Functionality already exists

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.
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

Support non-default SSL configuration on unmanaged JAX-WS client

For Liberty managed instances of the JAX-WS client, you can configure the ssl-ref with configuration below <webservices-bnd> <port name=“SayHelloPojoPort” namespace=“http://ibm.com/ws/jaxws/transport/security/” ssl-ref=“customizeSSLConfig...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

enhance inheritance of transformation configurations in DevOps Model RealTime

we have a matrix of builds, compilers, targets, library versions the option to inherit the UNION of all (non blank) inherited values (at any level), for the final .tcjs (that gets generated) the option to combine a final (override value) with inhe...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Model RealTime 2 Needs more information

We need API to be able to import and export application process

We do have an API for generic processes to be imported and exported but this does not work when we try to do the same application process. The requirement: we have hundreds of applications that require the restricted role configuration to be updat...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3

integrate IBM Velocity approval gates with an outside source through a REST API

At our last IBM UCD/Velocity lab advocate meeting, we discovered that there is no way to integrate IBM’s approval gates with an outside source through a REST API (or any other means it sounds like) so that we can plug in the Approval Gateway Tool ...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 2 Under review

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...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration