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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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COH Add Thread status log entries to Liberty code - Equivalent of TWas Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat

Traditional WebSphere had a configuration setting (Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat) that instructed it to log details about its thread pool usage e.g. the number of hung threads/size of the pool. Liberty does not have this functionality. Liberty on...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

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 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

ship mod_brotli from upstream

Currently, mod_brotli is not part of the IHS distribution. However, https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_brotli.html is available in Apache httpd 2.4.26 and higher. In comparison to mod_deflate, mod_brotli offers better compression with far l...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Please add the ability to create graphs.

We are seeking the ability to display graphs to streamline our validation process.Specifically, we would like to create a line graph with ObtainedValue and ExpectedValue on the vertical axis and cycle count on the horizontal axis.
2 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / RealTime 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Implementing WSSubject.getRootLoginException() in Liberty

We are migrating an existing JEE application from WebSphere Traditional to Liberty, and the current application has a custom user registry module. In WebSphere Traditional, we can call WSSubject.getRootLoginException() to get the root cause of log...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Add ability to add custom group names to filtering capability

We are very interested in using WebSphere Automation, however, the problem is we have over 500 WAS servers across 63 distinct WebSphere cells. We must have the ability to filter/group servers by a custom group name to be able to segregate servers ...
3 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Submitted

Add WAS z/OS support up to Db2 z/OS v13 FL50x for the sibDDLGenerator.sh script

The full details and background, etc., can be found in the Support Case TS017121234 The DDL produced by the WAS z/OS sibDDLGenerator.sh script is no longer valid; this manifested itself during our testing with Db2 v12 z/OS at FL504. Furthermore, t...
3 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

For WebSphere Application Server to support LDAP Channel Binding for end user authenticaion

Using Enble the LDAP Channel binding will help us to end user authention in IBM Websherer Application Server and its proves more secure in centralized authentication mechanism.
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Ease the airgap installation by providing a tar file for download

Many of our customers cannot download any containers from icr.io directly due to firewall reasons. There is a documentation how to download the images for airgap, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cta?topic=install-airgap But this still means that e...
6 months ago in Transformation Advisor 1 Submitted