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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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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

Support for namespaces in generated code

DevOps Model RealTime / Code RealTime should support namespaces in the generated code.
4 months ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 0 Submitted

Increase the read limit on ClearQuest multiline strings through OSLC

IBM ClearQuest truncates multiline text fields retrieved by OSLC to 2000 characters by default. This size can be changed on the server. My understanding is that OSLC does not enforce a hard limit even though implementations like ClearQuest can tru...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation 0 Under review

Add support for Personal Access Tokens to authenticate with the OSLC REST API

It is very common for applications with REST APIs to support Personal Access Tokens (PATs). They act as a secure, user-level alternative to standard passwords for authenticating scripts, CLI tools, and integrations. PATs allow users to connect ext...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation 0 Under review

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...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

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...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 0 Planned for future release

IBM WebSphere Liberty Workload Identity

Request summary Enhance the existing jwtBuilder component (and the associated com.ibm.websphere.security.jwt.JwtBuilder API) to support secure, programmatic issuance of application-identity JWT tokens. These tokens represent the calling Liberty ap...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0

Ability to reset connection manager wait_time metric exposed via Mbean

In z/OS Connect EE (WebSphere Liberty), the connection manager wait_time metric exposed via MBeans is does not reset after a wait condition has been resolved. As a result, when a high wait time (e.g. ~10 seconds) is recorded due to a transient iss...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future 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.
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Plugin Mongo DB for UCD Deploy

Our application teams would like to have possibility to deploy SQL files to MongoDB database. Plugin should work similar to MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle plugins that already exist in UCD.
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under consideration