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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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How can we configure Liberty so that only specific URL patterns use OIDC, and all others bypass OIDC and fall back to BasicAuth—even if the JWT contains the same issuer?

We are using a single z/OS Connect server instance. After applying the OIDC configuration on the server, we observed that requests whose URL patterns do not match the configured OIDC scopes — but still contain a JWT in any header — do not fall bac...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Not under consideration

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

Allow multiple CVE fixes

As part of the installing the fix process on WebSphere Automation, the server is restarted after the fixpack is applied. When you have multiple CVEs to apply, the servers are restarting a lot and sometimes that takes more time waiting for the rest...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Planned for future release

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

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

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

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

Extend Compact Agents to AIX

Managing Agents and keeping them up-to-date is hard when requirements change (like switch from Java 8 to 11). So central management of Java versions for Agents without impacting Java installations used by other applications is an essential feature...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 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