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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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Require Ansible playbooks to deploy and manage WAS ND deployments

Client is using CP4WAIOPS Infrastrututure Management to deploy and manage WAS ND. When they used the tooling in the past they had used Chef cookbooks to build and deploy WAS ND systems. Since IBM Purchaed RH, the CloudPak has indicated that Chef i...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

WASPreUpgrade command allowed on the same version

Currently the WASPreUpgrade command is not allowed on the same version, so we must have two different versions installed on the same server or IBM i and run the command from the new version, entering the old version as a parameter. In scenarios of...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Submitted

API ability to monitor version imports either globally or by component

Looking to be able to retrieve details of component imports (successful, failed and active) to enable automated checking of component import status
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Under review

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

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

Option to export components/applications without secrets or team mappings

Currently when exporting a component/application from a DevOps Deploy server, the created file contains secrets and team mappings. These secrets and team mappings can prevent import of the file to another server for different reasons. The secrets ...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 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

EASeJ MCP Enablement

EASeJ offers the flexibility of a managed java runtime and I'd like the ability to develop and deploy MCP applications to EASeJ IBM managed environment. USAA is actively investigating enablement of AI servers and a managed java runtime for these u...

adding/renaming clusters via admincenter

is it possible to add some administrative features like adding or renaming clusters details from the admincenter
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Access more application process request information - scheduled time

Our deployment processes need to check several values that can affect how deployments are executed. For example, during regular deployments, we want to trigger a refresh on a mainframe cache. However, for weekend deployments, we prefer to wait for...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information