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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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Use alternate mechanism to call ClearCase from the cmi_migrate.pl script.

The current CMI migration script repetively calls the "cleartool" command to perform operations. In environments where process creation or license checks are "expensive" in terms of time, this has a significant negative impact on migration speed/p...
8 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Under review

cmi_migrate.pl script should gracefully handle ClearCase MultiSite environments

Reason: Migration to CMI fails if the branch/brtype of the version to be associated with the task is not locally mastered. Check mastership of a given version's branch and skip migration/association if the version is mastered remotely. At the end ...
8 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Under review

ClearQuest Web Server Using Tomcat Implementation

Implement ClearQuest web services using Apache Tomcat, including the companion Report Launcher. (1) ClearCase and ClearQuest are often deployed together and should offer parallel implementation solutions. In 2018, the ClearCase/ClearQuest roadmap ...
over 5 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 3 Future consideration

Websphere Audit log format

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing improvement on existing feature Description: We are using WAS 8.5.5 and 9.0. The audit log generated by WebSphere is in binary format which is not readable by QRadar. Request to generate the ...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Future consideration

Add support for Apache Axis2 Web services to RAD

We would like to upgrade our Web service application(s) from Axis to Axis2 runtime however, RAD does not appear to support developing/deploying applications with Axis2 Web service runtime. Axis2 Web services is not new; almost expected it to alrea...
4 months ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Submitted

Enable WebSphere ND "Test Connection" to Support Custom LoginModule via J2C-JAAS

Idea Summary: Enhance the WebSphere ND administrative console's "Test Connection" function so that it leverages the same internal logic path used by application code, enabling support for custom credential retrieval mechanisms implemented via a cu...
8 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

To support z/OS Liberty container in z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP)

My client is evaluating the feasibility of modernizing his traditional WebSphere on z/OS applications to run in WebSphere Liberty servers. Each application has numerous customized security profiles in RACF, and it is desirable to reuse these profi...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Transformation advisor should be able to scan application for any WEB20 FEP implementation by application and make recommendations for Liberty

Transformation advisor should be able to scan application for any WEB20 FEP implementation by application and make recommendations for Liberty, in WEB20 FEP Rest implementation is based on Apache Wink and Applications developed using WEB20 FEP , r...
4 months ago in Transformation Advisor 0 Submitted

Option to redirect to plugin documentation in DevOps Deploy

Currently, we have options to install or upgrade plugins from the DevOps Deploy Application settings page with "Installed plugins" and "Available plugins" tabs. But to view documentation it requires additional search on internet and couple of navi...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

The stopServer and startServer script and the wsadmin tool cannot handle passwords containing special charachters

When stopping and starting the WebSphere server, or when using the wsadmin tool the user would like to copy paste the password from their password store (for example Keepass). This is not working when the string contains special characters. To be ...
8 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration