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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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Implementing a Zero Downtime Upgrade Mechanism for IBM Services

Currently, IBM’s upgrade process for certain services requires downtime, even in high-availability (HA) setups, due to shared database and filesystem dependencies. This limitation affects critical business operations, leading to potential service ...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 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.
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

In Container deployments I should be able to set my Java Options from the helm chart values file

Currently java options seem to be set in the statefulset.yaml file (this example is for agents, but the idea is for agents, relays and servers). Currently I see this: - name: JDK_JAVA_OPTIONSvalue: "-Dcom.redhat.fips=false"- name: JAVA_TOOL_OPTION...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Code 0 Submitted

option to pass Liberty Batch joblog path

Hi IBM, In order to view joblogs of server I need to login into Admin Center Java Batch console of that server and incase of multi executor environment it will hard to identify on which executor job ran and login into that server admin center to v...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Needs more information

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

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

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

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

Open Liberty : Reporting on jwt ALG usage

This ties to the Issue Reporting on jwt ALG usage #33270 raised on gitHub for Open Liberty. Please feel free to re-allocate to another Workspace if required. Describe the use case that you want to enable: The request to to report on ALG settings w...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Provide the function to schedule patch installation jobs

This is part 3 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 and is built on top of WASINTOPS-I-109. The customer would like to use the GUI of WSA to select one or more servers, display the list of unresolved vulnerabilities, cho...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration