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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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SSL Certificate Management for Liberty Profile. Certificate expiry Alerting and Certificate Renewal

WAS Liberty Profile requires SSL expiry monitoring and alerting. SSL Certificates are usually valid for many years, and the expiry dates of certificates are often missed, until the system fails due to expired certificates.
about 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

LTPA token timeout should respond to user activity

This is a requirement for ISO 27001 certification. This type of functionality is required by many security teams, and it is really hard to justify, explain, and get security deviations. It would be useful because users would not be harassed by fre...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

VET Change Websphere security configuration to allow non-Security Admin managers to generate heapdump/javacore/core files

Websphere 8.0 introduced new functionality that allows administrators to generate heapdumps/system dump/java cores on demand.This is very useful for administrators investigating particular problem types. The default Websphere configuration means t...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Functionality already exists

Add official support for .NET 10 applications in RFT / DevOps Test UI

Our team is planning to automate desktop applications built on .NET 10 using IBM Rational Functional Tester / DevOps Test UI. Currently, the latest supported and tested .NET version is 8. We request official certification and support for .NET 10 a...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 0 Planned for future release

Managed Liberty Server Automatic Startup

Currently, there is no way to have a managed Liberty server automatically start when the node agent is started after a host server reboot for example. In WebSphere Traditional, this can be accomplished by setting the "Node Restart State" to either...
4 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java 0 Future consideration

Add the hability to filter by application components in the main Calendar windows

Despite it is possible to see each componente calendar inside the process menu, it would be useful to be able to filter by component also in the main calendar
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Under review

Compare component versions with different HLQ

We create component versions with different HLQ depending on jenkins build number and git branch name. This results on component version comparison always showing differences. Every element is on one version but not in the other. Resulting on two ...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3

TLS 1.3 support for Cloud Pak System

In order to prepare for the future, with quantum secure encryption in mind, we are moving to using TLS 1.3 for internal communications. Currently, the main services in CPS still use TLS 1.2 and do not support TLS 1.3 communications.As such, TLS 1....
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Submitted

Agent JAVA_OPTS properties back to default values upon upgrade

Hi, We have noticed that after agent upgrade the memory values on the z/Os agents are going back to the default values "'-Xmx50m -Xms50m" on JAVA_OPTS. This requires manual intervention to change the properties any time we decide to upgrade the ag...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Needs more information

Jakarta EE Spec for Apache Kafka Similar to Jakarta Messaging JMS

This idea is really an evolution of where I see JEE needing to add capabilities which are not present compared to other competitive solution libraries like https://spring.io/projects/spring-kafka. OpenLiberty (https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/li...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration