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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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Inclusion of "Running" and "Approval In Progress" Status in Application Deployment History Page

Inclusion of "Running" and "Approval In Progress" Status in Application Deployment History Page Overview: Currently, UrbanCode Deploy allows filtering of deployment statuses by "Success," "Cancelled," and "Failed." However, it lacks the capability...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6

COH Add Thread status log entries to Liberty code - Equivalent of TWas Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat

Traditional WebSphere had a configuration setting (Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat) that instructed it to log details about its thread pool usage e.g. the number of hung threads/size of the pool. Liberty does not have this functionality. Liberty on...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

WAS for z/OS Liberty reconnects to RRS when RRS is terminated and restarted.

Backgrounds Customer is planning to migrate from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty and is validating whether or not there are some incompatibility, and also there are no problem through the extensive testing. When customer conducted...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Java Virtualization capability for JRE11 / BW5.15 Version

We used to virtualize ad consume the Java Calls initiated from tibco BW 5.13 (Java Version 8) and we spent lot of time and efforts in virtualizing the Java calls. Now, after the BW Version got upgraded to 5.15 with Java 11, the java agent shipped ...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 5 Under review

Provide automated method to generate licensing tags when clients are not using the Liberty operator for deployment.

Most of our Liberty deployments are done using custom container build pipelines and Helm based deployments. In order to track licensing we need to tag these deployments with required meta data so the license reporter will correctly compute. One of...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Security with External Secrets Integration

## Summary Request an IBM Liberty enhancement to let applications (including IBM Dynamic Workload Console running on Liberty) reference database credentials from an external secrets source (e.g., CyberArk/HashiCorp Vault) or secure system store. T...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support .NET Core 6.0 Desktop Applications and WPF in Rational Functional Tester

Currently RFT supports .NET applications until the .NET 4.6.1 version of Desktop Applications. Such .NET version is obsoleted from Microsoft in mid 2022 and Microsoft encourages to migrate applications on .NET Core 6.x applications. So new Desktop...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 3 Future 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...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1

Customize the inbuilt report generation functionality in the DTIA

DTIA now provides a fixed reporting interface under "Results Gallery" section and does not allow users to modify it. For example, you would like to add additional columns in existing default table.
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Workbench 0 Not under consideration

AMA 5.0 Analysis Report should show help on modernisation

Before AMA 5.0 when going to the Analysis Report would show "Show Results" and another expansion on how to fix the issue. In AMA 5.0 the Analysis Report is blocked unless a key is presented. Even when unlocked the only option is to °Show Results° ...
3 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Under review