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Access more application process request information - scheduled time

Our deployment processes need to check several values that can affect how deployments are executed. For example, during regular deployments, we want to trigger a refresh on a mainframe cache. However, for weekend deployments, we prefer to wait for...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Add Certficate auto renew function in Liberty

Now Liberty support only self-sign certificate or CA-signed certificate. That can only support replace certificate manually. In traditional WAS , in chained-certificate , tWAS can renew the certificate automatically. Can this function add into Web...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Functionality already exists

Best practices for NTP service in OpenShift

The NTP service configuration performed by the OpenShift installation using the Cloud Pak System accelerator should apply a best practice to keep the clocks on the nodes in sync. The default configuration of the NTP service increases the risk of c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System Future consideration

Provide the ability to assign "All Teams" to an object in UrbanCode Deploy

Our team uses UrbanCode Deploy for software deployments. However, we have several components and templates that are 'shared' among all users of the product. With current functionality, every team that wishes to consume one of these objects must be...
almost 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Trusted DB2 for z/OS connection for Liberty Profile

It would be very helpful if WAS Liberty Profile supported DB2 trusted connections and trusted contexts. Right now I am forced to use SyncToOSThread functionality but that causes problems with authorization to write to log files. I am working on a ...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Including Installation Manager updates

When patching WebSphere environments with Installation Manager there is an option to check for IM updates, there doesn't appear to be an option for that in WSA. It would be beneficial to have the option to update the Installation Manager software ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation Not under consideration

CVEs page also displaying associated PH

The PH fix or fixpack information isn't displayed until a person clicks on a particular CVE from the CVEs page, then selects a server to fix, clicks on "Prepare Fixes", select either Fix or Fixpack and then it is displayed what will be installed. ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation Not under consideration

Update Jenkins plugin to support Base ClearCase

Update the Jenkins Plugin to support Base ClearCase. We do NOT use UCM since we have designed a frontend to ClearCase that replaces UCM. I'm really shocked that Base ClearCase was not included in the roll out of the Jenkins plugin. It doesn't requ...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Create Submitted

"GIT views" for base clearcase

Provide "GIT views" feature for teams working with base clearcase.
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Code

ClearQuest install should check for existence of dependent libraries and error or warn if they're not present

Our ClearQuest prerequisites mention this requirement, but the ClearQuest install is allowed to complete (without any error or warning), even when these dependent libraries are not present. This yields errors when running the product after the "su...
over 5 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest Future consideration