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Provide ability to reset stub hit count

When interpreting stub usage metrics via the default dashboard it would help if the counts can be reset without having to stop and restart the stub.
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 0 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 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration

Support JDBC 4.2 in WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 supports Java SE 8. It should support JDBC 4.2 in accordance with specification of JSE 8 (https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337). However, the latest system requirement of WAS 8.5.5 only states support of JDBC up ...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Add zstd http channel output compression

Zstd is currently the best compression available: zstd is supported for a year now in all major browsers zstd uses less CPU It achieves better or on-par compression than brotli and gzip It uses way less real time to achieve better compression Hint...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Implement an approach to define and manage Requirements record Acceptance Criteria for IBM DevOps Plan

An Agile requirement comprises (or SHOULD comprise!) a high-level statement of what the system needs to do, plus one or more related, detailed scenarios that define system Acceptance Criteria for the high-level statement. The AC's provide the requ...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Plan 2 Under review

Create documentation for UCD plugins for z/OS

The documentation of the UCD plugins for z/OS is very poor, so we need to create our processes on try-and-error basis. The videos placed on the community are very good but, the plugins should have its own complete documentation, otherwise we are p...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would ...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

support  syncToOSThread for J2C connections for CICS on Websphere Liberty for Z/OS

This idea is to get it on product roadmap after discussion with PM .Previous submitted idea : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TWAS-I-255 Feature Summary Social Security Administration (SSA )uses tWas 8.5 on Z/os and is migrating to Liberty with Identi...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2

Support token authentication (IDT) when accessing a db when using a connection pool

PCI data security is requiring servers to never expose a password when accessing a db. The industry is moving towards using JWTs (for example, a RACF IDT on z/OS) to meet this requirement. JWT eliminate the need to manage a db password in Liberty ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Resizeable or larger text fields in Manual Task windows

We use a "Manual Task" step in one of our deployment processes and we would like to display the value of a property in the Respond window. However, the window is not wide enough to show the full text without scrolling. Showing the full property in...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Planned for future release