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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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Decoupling WebSphere Application Server patterns and Cloud Pak System releases

Currently, IBM used to deliver a new version of the WebSphere Application Server Pattern type as part of the default content for new CPS releases. WebSphere Application Server Pattern type is actually composed of 2 artefacts: - the WebSphere Appli...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1

Liberty z/OS -J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) to DB2 (setDB2ClientUser)

Liberty z/OS applications require audit and logging in DB2. We need to know who made the changes in the database records. The idea is to pass to the DB2 the J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) and put it on the setDB2ClientUser for the DB2 connection...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Ability to export events of WebSphere Automation to ELK

Customer requests audit trail at the server level and the events to be sent to ELK; events such as: 1. When a CVE is added to the database 2. When a particular server is scanned and first flagged with the CVE (e.g. due to a newly announced CVE or ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Improve error messages

Currently there is an error message that can show up when creating a deployment plan that is 'Could not start plan'. This can be of a variety of reasons. It took too long and it timed out, or the version isn't available in UCD. Rather than a gener...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 0 Future consideration

Liberty on z/OS - Reduce the size of the SMF 120 subtype 11 User Data section when there is only 1

Today the SMF 120 subtype 11 record is approximately 630 bytes. When a customer or program product writes to the User Data section then the record grows in size by 4.5x as the User Data section has a fixed length of 2048 bytes regardless of how mu...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

RDi - Change position to proc in editor using outline

When using the RDi outline to choose a proc, the proc is always positioned halfway down the screen. I request a change to position to the last line of code prior to the proc as the first line in the editor. Position to the last line of actual code...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

Upgrade wadamin jyton to Python 3.9.4

We have a requirement to update WAS settings from within the secure wsadmin.sh runtime. The updates require calling out to other servers in our network using REST-ful calls. The GitHub "requests" module meets most needs. But we can not use it beca...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

RTAS Installation for RHEL

Rational Test Automation Server installation type has been changed from physical machine ways to containerized type and we have only two types as of now 1. Openshift Containerized2. Ubuntu K3S We are currently looking for RHEL K3S type of installa...
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Not under consideration

Automatically propagate SAF identity when client and server are in the same cluster

For z/OS, customers are always logged into the traditional environments. This means they have an identity that is verified and trustable. The z/OS TCP/IP stack and the Java runtime support the notion of trusted identity propagation. The client mus...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Select only ONLINE agents in agent pools

OFFLINE agents are automatically excluded from selection in agent pools. This provides an important high availability function for pools. Agents in ERROR mode, however are not excluded, which can lead to deployment failure.
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration