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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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Restrict which http method can be called

For better security, it should be possible to configure what http methods can be used to access an application. For example, application 1 may only allow http get/put. Application 2 may disallow http options. This applies to both traditional WAS a...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Allow a non-interactive console access to obtain the password silently while uploading the Process as Code files

Context:We are trying to develop an automatic lifecycle for our deployment processes in UrbanCode Deploy 7.3.2 Problem: We get the error "IO error: direct console access unavailable" when trying to update the processes in UCD from a Jenkins pipeli...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5

Need IBM websphere liberty core images ready to use, to deploy on openshift.

We want to have websphere liberty core UBI images At this time only kernel or full edition are available: ibmcom/websphere-liberty - Docker Image | Docker Hub kernel-java8-openj9-ubi kernel-java8-ibmjava-ubi kernel-java11-openj9-ubi kernel-java17-...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

UrbanCode Deploy and 2FA

Did UrbanCode Deploy support 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) and how to enable it ?
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

IM albd check should use alternative to NTLM

Installation Manager (IM) currently uses legacy NTLM authentication to check for clearcase server process (albd) credentials during installation on Windows.More and more customers disable NTLM in their environment which causes albd check to fail.T...
over 1 year ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 2 Future consideration

Fix the issue that's causing stuck of the JWT tokens from the z/OS Liberty server

A JSON Web Token(JWT) can get stuck. It manifests as /zosmf/services/authenticate endpoint issuing a JWT with success RC that is not valid for api calls, resulting in 401 rc. This is a persistent condition. We are tracking two cases where it happe...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future 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 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration

CMI Integration - Restricting the end user to select only one task while performing ClearCase check-in operations

With current configurations in CMI, with custom query, it was listing all the tasks to select with check box for associating those tasks for a single file, which is not correct. A single file element should be able to have multiple tasks/activitie...
9 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Liberty zOS SAF delegation switch

In WAS z/OS traditional cells, we are using the paramters: com.ibm.security.SAF.authorization = false and com.ibm.security.SAF.delegation = false.The developers use the application-bnd.xml files to map J2EE roles to a bind-able referenced role in ...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Custom filtering or grouping of systems

Provide custom filtering of systems so they can be grouped as business needs or organizational needs dictate.(
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration