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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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Proxy needed for Oracle Forms 12c

Since the AppPoint Oracle Forms proxy is no longer supported by IBM (as of January 1, 2017) - we are requesting a proxy be built into RFT to allow the automation of Oracle Forms. Right now RFT's object inspector can't recognize Oracle forms embedd...
about 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 2 Not under consideration

The license for IBM Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) should be included in WebSphere Application Server for z/OS.

Customers plan to migrate traditional WebSphere Application Server for z/OS to Liberty for z/OS.To support this migration, customers intend to use IBM Bob together with IBM Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) to generate deployment plans a...
7 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Planned for future release

Allow multiple roles to be selected in the 'Required Role' dropdown box against Application Processes

As administrators of UrbanCode Deploy, we would like to propose an enhancement to the Application Process configuration. Currently, the 'Required Role' dropdown box allows us to select only one role to restrict access to running a particular Appli...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

OpenTelemetry Tracing support of WOLA

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

Pass tag values into the "Notes" column of the default DTIA report that appears under "Result Gallery"

There is an existing 'Notes' column in the default DTIA report that you see under "Results Gallery". DTIA should allow users to tag or populate values in this column for each store or transaction preferably allowing the test executions label thems...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Workbench 0 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

SSL Certificate Management for Liberty Profile. Certificate expiry Alerting and Certificate Renewal

WAS Liberty Profile requires SSL expiry monitoring and alerting. SSL Certificates are usually valid for many years, and the expiry dates of certificates are often missed, until the system fails due to expired certificates.
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

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...
4 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 1 Planned for future release

VET Change Websphere security configuration to allow non-Security Admin managers to generate heapdump/javacore/core files

Websphere 8.0 introduced new functionality that allows administrators to generate heapdumps/system dump/java cores on demand.This is very useful for administrators investigating particular problem types. The default Websphere configuration means t...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Functionality already exists

LTPA token timeout should respond to user activity

This is a requirement for ISO 27001 certification. This type of functionality is required by many security teams, and it is really hard to justify, explain, and get security deviations. It would be useful because users would not be harassed by fre...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration