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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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Provide a stop/resume command for persistent timer execution in WLP

In Liberty Persistent Timer execution can be started/stopped by changing the server.xml enableTaskExecution attribute to true/false. This requires a reload of the configuration (which by default is automatic, but can be configured to mbean or disa...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Provide a feature for Dynamic IP restriction settings for IBM Websphere Liberty server

Our product runs on bundled IBM Liberty Server. The version of the Liberty that gets deployed with the product is “WebSphere Application Server 19.0.0.8/wlp-1.0.31.cl190820190813-1136”.Currently IBM Websphere Liberty does not provide any mechanism...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced journaling in Installation Manager

When something goes wrong during product installation or update with IM, it's often difficult to do a post-mortem. The current logs are not sufficient to pinpoint the failing step and root cause. Thus it would be helpful to get clear and detailed ...
11 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

pluginConfiguration - functionality to change the LogLevel during plugin generation

We are running Liberty z/OS and we would like to set the Loglevel in logs/state/plugin-cfg.xml file https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/zos?topic=SS7K4U_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.autogen.nd.doc/ae/rwlp_config_pluginConfiguration.html p...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Provide list of deleted resources with Environment Delete Option

Hi team, With the new feature - UCD v7.3.2 of 'Enable Deleting Resources From Environment Resource Tree' We would like to also see which resources are being deleted if we enable the 'Enable Deleting Resources From Environment Resource Tree option'...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Ration Change : Option to disable the Reset Password dialog

In Change 5.3 configuration options : to have an option to disable the Reset Password dialog box. In our case, Change use RDS to store the users preferences but the authentication is made in passthrough mode with the enterprise directory.
over 8 years ago in Heritage 4 Not under consideration

check specific components status in server command

We want an easier way to check the status of an activationSpec programatically. Now we have server command with pause and resume activationSpec capabilities, but we need this to also enable the option to check the status of server components. serv...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow the output repositories to be a zip file in the IBM Packaging Utility

You can not build zip repositories in the packaging utility command line (pucl) in the -target option.IBM support informed that building of taget repositories are not supported.Usually you need zip repositories so after the pucl command line you n...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Improve message detail for CWWKS1777E

Current format of message is as below: ibm.ws.security.openidconnect.common.OidcCommonClientRequest E CWWKS1777E: Validation failed for the token requested by [RS_CREDENTIAL] due to a mismatch of signing algorithms between the OpenID Connect clien...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Zero outage when applying patches

Currently when a patch is provided by product team we have to do complete outage of UCD that includes below steps Enable maintenance mode Pause all running deployments Stop all deploy server nodes Apply patch and start all deploy server nodes Disa...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration