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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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Observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log

In the customer's WASv8.5.5.20 system, they have observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log. Referring the WAS code, it just subtract System.currentTimeMillis from the previous System.currentTimeMillis. We were...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Add a feature to allow connection between UCD and a suitable data warehouse to archive and retrieve history table.

Add a feature to allow connection between UCD and a suitable data warehouse to archive and retrieve history table. We don’t want to perform archive outside UCD interface (meaning directly from UCD DB to Solix), as data once moved out – auditors qu...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Provide the function to schedule patch installation jobs

This is part 3 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 and is built on top of WASINTOPS-I-109. The customer would like to use the GUI of WSA to select one or more servers, display the list of unresolved vulnerabilities, cho...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Refresh Token support (instead of username/password fields) in ServiceNow UCV plugin

Latest UCV ServiceNow plugin (v1.1.8) has added support for OAUTH 2.0 however, it's still asking to supply the username and password for generating Access Token, which can be a security violation in some companies as well as for ServiceNow ops tea...
2 months ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 1 Under review

Extend Compact Agents to AIX

Managing Agents and keeping them up-to-date is hard when requirements change (like switch from Java 8 to 11). So central management of Java versions for Agents without impacting Java installations used by other applications is an essential feature...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Require Ansible playbooks to deploy and manage WAS ND deployments

Client is using CP4WAIOPS Infrastrututure Management to deploy and manage WAS ND. When they used the tooling in the past they had used Chef cookbooks to build and deploy WAS ND systems. Since IBM Purchaed RH, the CloudPak has indicated that Chef i...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

WebSphere OpenID Connect Relying Party - Could you please add client_assertion as an authentication method?

Current Situation: We are using the IBM supplied replying party plugin with Microsoft Entra: Component name: OpenID Connect Relying Party TAI TAI class name: com.ibm.ws.security.oidc.client.RelyingParty Version: 9.0 f5192405.01 This combination al...
5 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review

Add feature to configure Enable/Disable System Dump from admin console

WAS admin console users have the ability to take System dumps and causes issues in production during peak traffic. Requesting a feature added so WAS admins can configure to enable or disable in production environments.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Cleartool CMI integration chtask command needs -replace option

Right now, the steps to change the task association of a checked-out element are to:1. Use chtask -add_task to add the new task 2. Use chtask -remove to remove the old task. If the second step is missed, or fails, a single change is associated wit...
2 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux

Due to Red Hat's shutting down public access to their distribution source packages, Oracle and other "compatible" linux distributions can no longer state that their kernel or userspace packages are 100% compatible with the matching Red Hat Enterpr...
2 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 2 Not under consideration