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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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[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.
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Commercially Support WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Container Apps

WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty are currently not commercially supported on Azure Container Apps. This is due to license validation challenges. This has proven to be a blocker for a number of IBM and Microsoft customers including Legal & Ge...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Set tomcat.keystore.password During Unattended Installation

My client uses Puppet to automate the installation of DevOps Deploy instances. Currently, after installation, they need to manually update the secured-installed.properties file to modify the tomcat.keystore.password entry. This post-installation s...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Add support for proxmox hypervisor (KVM)

More teams are moving from VMWare to proxmox virtualization platform. They will use it to manage Windows and Linux VMs running clearcase. Siemens already tested it and it worked well after tuning some parameters.
about 1 year ago in Heritage / ClearCase 2 Under review

Industry standard issue tracker for Rational Developer

Rational Developer (for i, z) is a great tool, and like all similar applications, RDi continually has a host of minor defects and possible enhancements. Opening an APAR with IBM for this sort of thing is overly complex and an antiquated sort of us...
over 4 years ago in Heritage / Application Developer 5 Not under consideration

Enable mpMetric feature out of the box

The current implementation of MoRE does not implement the mpMetrics feature for the Liberty servers. Therefore there is no way to get performance metrics from the Liberty servers so the customers are basically "blind" regarding the performance met...
4 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java 1 Future consideration

Assess and modify WebSphere Hybrid Edition to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
9 months ago in WebSphere Hybrid Edition 0 Submitted

Assess and modify Cloud Pak for Applications to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Applications 0 Submitted

WebSphere should offer StartTLS support when connecting to LDAP server for authentication

When configuring WebSphere for LDAP authentication, if you select "use SSL", this forces WebSphere to establish an LDAPS connection with the LDAP server (port 636 by default). This is an outdated mechanism. LDAP v3 defines the StartTLS extension, ...
about 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Improve SystemD Integration

When a WebSphere Traditional service such as a node agent running as a SystemD service is restarted or stopped through the admin console, SystemD is not leveraged in this process meaning when the original node agent process is stopped, SystemD con...
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration