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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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Update the Technology Report to include Portlets

Today AMA/TA do not show Portlets in the technology report and it gives a false idea of all the technologies being used. Since tWAS still supports the technology it would be good to show that it is not supported in Liberty and not have to find out...
3 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 1 Planned for future release

Provide SRFM option for checkout in CTE

This request is to add a checkout option in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) for synchronous request for mastership (SRFM): https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-set-clearcase-synchronous-request-mastership That would allow the user to checkout immediatel...
about 1 year ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Under review

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.
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Create a new ROLE in the Admin Centre

Currently, there are only two roles - ADMIN - access everythingREADER - BROWSECould you create a new role, to allow application developers the access to STOP/START the micro-services only. This would remove any intervention required by the CICS Te...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Create more than 1 zip file while processing with the Discovery Tool

The Discovery Tool on TA/AMA may take days to run, depending on the number of applications in a WebSphere Cell. The resulting zip file may be too large to upload and process by the taserver pd/container thus resulting in an error, most likely an O...
3 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Planned for future release

DR1: Restrict access to Preferences page to Keycloak admins only

In Design Room ONE, is should be possible to restrict access to the Preferences... page to Keycloak admins only
9 months ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 0 Submitted

Administration and application traffic on different ports

For better security, an application server's application traffic can be initiated from the web server in the DMZ, but it should not be possible for administration traffic. For Liberty profile, it is difficult to achieve.
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

generate .settings files for generated CDT projects to hold things like explicit encoding set

eliminates workspace problem markers, either hardcode to UTF-8, or have encoding be something driven by some .tcjs value selectable from TC editor
3 months ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 0 Submitted

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...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

AI Extension to different models like Copilot, Gemini

Need to have the AI extension for Devops Deploy to other models like Copilot and Gemini. We use Copilot inside organization and this will help us explore the feature and benefits integrated. Thanks
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review