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Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Agent JAVA_OPTS properties back to default values upon upgrade

Hi, We have noticed that after agent upgrade the memory values on the z/Os agents are going back to the default values "'-Xmx50m -Xms50m" on JAVA_OPTS. This requires manual intervention to change the properties any time we decide to upgrade the ag...
20 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Submitted

Configure a proxy for the Available Plugins feature in DevOps Deploy

We want to configure a http proxy for the Available Plugins feature, but not with the global settings in the java command -Dhttps.proxyHost and -Dhttps.proxyPort properties. Because we don't want that all outgoing connections communicate via the h...
20 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Submitted

A Robust Cleanup Option to Remove Old Versions and Records No Longer Needed to Optimize Storage and Usage

Concern: Over time, the system keeps accumulating old versions and release records that are no longer required. These records are not used for deployments and have no business value anymore, yet they continue to consume storage and system resource...
21 days ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 0 Submitted

Move application data ("var" directory in particular) to \ProgramData on Windows...

The standard location for transient application data on Windows is the "\ProgramData" directory. This was a change made some time ago to improve application security. ClearCase still stores data in \Program Files\... In many cases, "hardening" too...
26 days ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Submitted

API Endpoint to Get list of all Component Processes for a given Component

We have a requirement to get all Component Process list for a given Component. Can we have an API endpoint that we can use to get this info? For Example - If a component has 5 processes, then API endpoint should return 5 process names regardless o...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Code 0 Submitted

WXS Client/server 8.6.1.x add support of TLS 1.3 based on JDK available on Websphere ND 9.0.5.x and 8.5.5.x

Hello based our problem : WXS Client/Server Issue on WAS 9.0.5.20 ==> 22 and 8.5.5.26 and 27 with java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: TLSv1.3,TLSv1.2 is not a recognized protocol discover the WXS doesn't support the Configuration on Websphere N...
9 months ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Submitted

DR1: Restrict access to Preferences page to Keycloak admins only

In Design Room ONE, is should be possible to restrict access to the Preferences... page to Keycloak admins only
about 2 months ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 0 Submitted

How can we configure Liberty so that only specific URL patterns use OIDC, and all others bypass OIDC and fall back to BasicAuth—even if the JWT contains the same issuer?

We are using a single z/OS Connect server instance. After applying the OIDC configuration on the server, we observed that requests whose URL patterns do not match the configured OIDC scopes — but still contain a JWT in any header — do not fall bac...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

TLS 1.3 support for Cloud Pak System

In order to prepare for the future, with quantum secure encryption in mind, we are moving to using TLS 1.3 for internal communications. Currently, the main services in CPS still use TLS 1.2 and do not support TLS 1.3 communications.As such, TLS 1....
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Submitted

Add support for Apache Axis2 Web services to RAD

We would like to upgrade our Web service application(s) from Axis to Axis2 runtime however, RAD does not appear to support developing/deploying applications with Axis2 Web service runtime. Axis2 Web services is not new; almost expected it to alrea...
2 months ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Submitted