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Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Liberty Profile on z/OS provides the way to surface resource adapter health

Currently, Liberty Profile on z/OS provides MODIFY command for Display information, including status, for each pause capable component on the server as below:MODIFY [jobname.].identifier,status,details If the command is issued for MDB message endp...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Acquire Lock - Update Process Step to allow a Switch if Lock exists

This request is to update the Acquire Lock process step to allow branching paths depending on if the lock already exists. The general idea is, if the lock has been created by another process, we would like a way to fail out the process. This would...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

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...
4 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java 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

Support for the SAN attribute in the CSR request when using wsadmin or the WAS admin console.

We want to be able to use the SAN attribute in PKI keys/certificates. This is needed to pass host verification during the TLS handshake if the certificate is to be used by processes on different hosts, e.g., multiple WAS application server process...
about 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Add the hability to filter by application components in the main Calendar windows

Despite it is possible to see each componente calendar inside the process menu, it would be useful to be able to filter by component also in the main calendar
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Under review

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

Add official support for .NET 10 applications in RFT / DevOps Test UI

Our team is planning to automate desktop applications built on .NET 10 using IBM Rational Functional Tester / DevOps Test UI. Currently, the latest supported and tested .NET version is 8. We request official certification and support for .NET 10 a...
7 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Jakarta EE Spec for Apache Kafka Similar to Jakarta Messaging JMS

This idea is really an evolution of where I see JEE needing to add capabilities which are not present compared to other competitive solution libraries like https://spring.io/projects/spring-kafka. OpenLiberty (https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/li...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration