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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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CVEs page also displaying associated PH

The PH fix or fixpack information isn't displayed until a person clicks on a particular CVE from the CVEs page, then selects a server to fix, clicks on "Prepare Fixes", select either Fix or Fixpack and then it is displayed what will be installed. ...
11 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
11 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

support  syncToOSThread for J2C connections for CICS on Websphere Liberty for Z/OS

This idea is to get it on product roadmap after discussion with PM .Previous submitted idea : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TWAS-I-255 Feature Summary Social Security Administration (SSA )uses tWas 8.5 on Z/os and is migrating to Liberty with Identi...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Planned for future release

Integrate authentication with Windows Hello

More tools and customers are integrating with Windows Hello, if DevOps Deploy did this, it would smooth out the login experience for users.
3 months 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...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

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

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 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Java 11 support for WAS ND

I'm working for an Insurance Group, currently responsible of the implementation of Guidewire Insurance suite (https://www.guidewire.com/products/insurancesuite), which is a World Class application developed in Java. We'd implemented the Guidewire ...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration