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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 Planned for future release

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 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 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...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Auditing Requirement for CVE Remediation Reporting (wsa-cves_for_servers_report )

To comply with auditing requirements, the customer requires a report that identifies which CVEs have been remediated on their servers and verifies whether the remediation occurred within the mandated timeframe. For instance, for CVSS scores of 9 o...
4 months ago in WebSphere Automation Under review

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 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 Future consideration

UUCD 7 UI has a lot of white space and less information can fit in a window

We're updating from UCD 6.2 to 7.1. The UI has changed a lot and we are still getting used to it, but there are a few things worth mentioning. In this case it's about how much information can fit in a window. Not as much as in 6.2! I think the wor...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future 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 Not under consideration

[Liberty Server] Two Phase Commit support for WOLA to IMS/CICS

Similar to what happen in WebSPhere Applicaiton server, we ask the introduction on Liberty the two phase commit support, for the WOLA channel outbout call to IMS/CICS.
about 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration