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Accessing Websphere admin console hosted inside an Openshit POD

IBM provided docker base image for WebSphere application server. We use it to containerize WebSphere traditional applications and move them into Cloud, such as Openshit, for better scalability. However, the WebSphere admin console is not accessible.
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Rational Synergy for Eclipse Interface and Java 11

In our company we offer the IDE Eclipse for our Java developers, which includes "Rational Synergy for Eclipse Interface". From Eclipse 2020-09 Java 11 is required: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation#Eclipse_4.17_.282020-09.29 Please off...
almost 6 years ago in Heritage Not under consideration

Provide an option that allows WebSphere Liberty database pool to maintain a minNumber of "warm" connections.

The current configuration options that are available in WLP do not allow for maintaining a minPoolSize number of connections in a given connection pool. Any events of connection aging (for example timeouts that can occur on the WLP side as well as...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Queue Refresh of Manifests for All Agents in BuildForge

System : Rational BuildForgeActor : Needs a new Feature to Queue Manifest Refresh for all Servers avalilable in BuildForge BuildForge is commonly used tool in our organization for Version Management, Build and Deploying applicaitons into WebSphere...
about 6 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge Not under consideration

Rational Synergy 7.2.2 & Change 5.3.2 - Compatibility with RHEL8

We will use Rational Synergy 7.2.2 and Rational Change 5.3.2 on RHEL7 but some of our clients absolutely wants to use RHEL8 for security reason.Currently, Synergy 7.2.2 is not certified compliant with RHEL8, could you add this compliance certifica...
over 6 years ago in Heritage Not under consideration

Migration of server database to a different database system

Some years ago a customer began adopting UrbanCode Deploy using DB2 as database system, but he doesn't have skills on DB2.Now he wants to enlarge his adoption upgrading UrbanCode Deploy to an HA configuration, he already has Oracle RAC and also he...
over 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

The JAX-WS and CXF code in Liberty does not cache any SSL socket connections for reuse

The JAX-WS and CXF code in Liberty does not cache any SSL socket connections for reuse. We probably have you to open RFE for this issue. our L3 are trying to recreate the issue locally to get more information.This RFE is based on above comment fro...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Websphere Application Server: Self Signed Default Websphere certificate missing IP or DNS names in SAN field

The self signed certificates in Websphere application server has default SAN field populated and not the IP or DNS name as required by browsers causing the browsers (Chrome, FireFox etc) to complain that the SAN field is missing.
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

ClearCase Base Perl V2 Integration not working with Load Balancing

ClearCase Base V2 Integration with CQ Web entry point gives issues when used along with load balancing. Whereas, when requests are routed to single server, the execution is always successful.Please refer to TS002134059 for all the logs and case de...
about 7 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase Not under consideration

Java 8.0 with 64 bit support for Rational Synergy and Rational Change

Our customer ITZ Bund is asking for Java 8.0 with 64 bit support for Rational Synergy and Rational Change.
over 7 years ago in Heritage Not under consideration