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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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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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future 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

Include attachments in the send email step.

I would like to have a process that generates a report (perhaps a .csv) and sends it to my team. If the send email step could include attachments located on the agent's file system, the process would be simple to create. My team frequently generat...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information

In DevOps Test UI - Desktop and Web Application Improvement

Implement Page Object Model (POM). Introduce reusable component libraries. Enable parallel test execution where feasible. Avoid relying on index-based locators Implement descriptive naming conventions for UI objects.
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 0 Needs more information

OpenTelemetry Tracing support of WOLA

Looking for OTEL to support tracing for WAS to CICS
5 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

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

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

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...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 3 Future consideration

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

Managed Liberty Server Automatic Startup

Currently, there is no way to have a managed Liberty server automatically start when the node agent is started after a host server reboot for example. In WebSphere Traditional, this can be accomplished by setting the "Node Restart State" to either...
3 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java 0 Future consideration