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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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wsAtomicTransaction always enabled in Liberty

tWAS allows the use of policy sets which the customer has used to control whether WS-AT is active for individual web service endpointsLiberty does not have this function (policy sets)Liberty enables/disables WS-AT based on the presence or absence ...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Planned for future release

Create Generic Process Step for Locking Snapshots

This request is to create a generic process that can lock a snapshot (versions and configuration) on a particular application. As a requirement for audit, all production deployments must lock their snapshot before deploying. Using an orchestration...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Upgrade Agent have limitation of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer Agent - which is problematic if customer have 50.000 UCD Agents to upgrade

Upgrade Agent feature have limitation described on documentation as: "Updating many agents simultaneously can have a significant affect the server. As a rule-of-thumb, limit the number of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer." Which is problematic...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Add support for Apache Axis2 Web services to RAD

We would like to upgrade our Web service application(s) from Axis to Axis2 runtime however, RAD does not appear to support developing/deploying applications with Axis2 Web service runtime. Axis2 Web services is not new; almost expected it to alrea...
3 months ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Submitted

Support virtual baseDN mapping im Liberty to improve SSO with tWAS

VMM in tWAS environments are supporting virtual baseDN in VMM which are then via wimconfig.xml mapped to real LDAP baseDNs via the baseEntries configuration like for example <baseEntries name="cn=externalUsers" nameInRepository="cn=users,cn=ext...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

Transformation advisor should be able to scan application for any WEB20 FEP implementation by application and make recommendations for Liberty

Transformation advisor should be able to scan application for any WEB20 FEP implementation by application and make recommendations for Liberty, in WEB20 FEP Rest implementation is based on Apache Wink and Applications developed using WEB20 FEP , r...
3 months ago in Transformation Advisor 0 Submitted

Option to redirect to plugin documentation in DevOps Deploy

Currently, we have options to install or upgrade plugins from the DevOps Deploy Application settings page with "Installed plugins" and "Available plugins" tabs. But to view documentation it requires additional search on internet and couple of navi...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

UI improvements to help connect deployments to versions

Our users have compained about it being hard to see which version is being processed in a deployment. This of course can be found in the Manifest tab but it would be better to see it at the top of the deployment log tab. It would also be good to b...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

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...
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

ClearCase installation should display how much space is required

ClearCase 2025A fixpack installation/update will stop with an error "Available disk space at <filesystem> is insufficient" when such condition occurs. However it doesn't tell how much space is required. It would be more useful that Installat...
12 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Under review