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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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Create more than 1 zip file while processing with the Discovery Tool

The Discovery Tool on TA/AMA may take days to run, depending on the number of applications in a WebSphere Cell. The resulting zip file may be too large to upload and process by the taserver pd/container thus resulting in an error, most likely an O...
4 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Microprofile openapi to use other than the default host

Standard web applications can use virtual hosts in Liberty but feature WEBs such as microprofile openapi can not use the virtual hosts. The requests are being made using the default host name. Could you please make it possible to use the virtual h...
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

generate .settings files for generated CDT projects to hold things like explicit encoding set

eliminates workspace problem markers, either hardcode to UTF-8, or have encoding be something driven by some .tcjs value selectable from TC editor
4 months ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 0 Submitted

Output Log UI should allow downloading logs from all servers in the cluster (HA)

In our HA installation of IBM DevOps Deploy (2 front-end nodes + 2 back-end nodes behind load balancers), the UI option Settings → Output Log only displays and downloads deployserver.out from a single node in the cluster. The documentation states ...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6

AI Extension to different models like Copilot, Gemini

Need to have the AI extension for Devops Deploy to other models like Copilot and Gemini. We use Copilot inside organization and this will help us explore the feature and benefits integrated. Thanks
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

Remove broken references on model level

For broken references that have no supplier, it should be possible to remove them on a model level, instead of having to remove them one by one.
4 months ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 0 Submitted

Allow liberty to resolve domain names via DNS

Currently we are providing domain name resolution via the hosts file in the liberty path. But this requires manual changes every time a domain name is added.
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Functionality already exists

Terminate the Liberty server when a stop server request is received while MDB application has been running longer than the configured timeout value.

Backgrounds Customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/OS t...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Implement a function to detect hanging MDB applications and interrupt their execution.

Backgrounds Customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/OS t...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review