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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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API to get the connection to the JobRepository

The current implementation of the JSR-352 (Java Batch) in WebSphere Liberty Profile requires to have both a connection to the JobRepository and to the business data for chunk processing. As a consequence the system always needs a global transactio...
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Passive Relay

See the file "RFE Passive Relay.pdf".Please forward to the relevant person.
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

There is no ability to setup RAM in the ram.setup utility to configure SSL/TLS for databases

There is no ability to setup RAM in the ram.setup utility to configure SSL/TLS for databases. When you run ram.setup, in the Database Configuration steps, you can specify database details. Here, there should also be a "ss/tls" check box to enable ...
about 5 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

F5 reverse proxy

Currently the authorization to Synergy is done by username and password only. This is a weak authorization to Synergy.
about 5 years ago in Heritage 2 Not under consideration

We need to use/see BF Snapshot with more than 999 projects.

"Snapshots are only visible for the first 999 projects in the Build Forge management console. It would be very useful if this limit could be extended or removed since our customers have over 1400 projects and would like to access all of their snap...
over 10 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

UML-to-WSDL tranformation: meaningful fault names

Trying to achieve: *Add named exceptions/faults to an interface operation in the model *Run UML-to-WSDL and get a WSDL with operations/faults/fault messages Current approach: 1. Start with an interface with an operation that has input/output messa...
over 15 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer for WebSphere 4 Future consideration

[jaxws] implements polymorphism for exceptions raised by jaxws servers

[JAX-WS] On server side, sub classes of exceptions declared in soap methods signatures when raised at runtime are not interpreted as if they were listed exceptions but treated as if they are undeclared exceptions (therefore in the soap fault the d...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Output Change reports to .xlsx and .docx

Change reports output to obsolete formats for Excel and Word.
about 5 years ago in Heritage 5 Not under consideration

Add Redefine operation feature to public API

Custom plugins are built based on using the provided APIs. It is a must to be able to redefine operations automatically but there is not such feature in the public API. We expect RTRedefineOperationCommand functionality to be part of the API.
about 5 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Real Time Edition 2 Future consideration

Request to develop MongoDB plugin

Dear Team, We have a couple of applications with MongoDB Database. So, we want to automate MongoDB deployment.As I discussed with IBM support currently, IBM does not have a MongoDB deployment plugin due to which we are not able to automate our app...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration