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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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Critcal need for passticket or IDT connection to Db2 for z/OS using persitent timer with zLiberty

Currently, the persistent timer in zLiberty only supports a password connection to Db2 for z/OS. This is very problematic for customers as it requires an outage for zLiberty whenever you need to change the persistent timer ID's password. We have a...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Refresh Token support (instead of username/password fields) in ServiceNow UCV plugin

Latest UCV ServiceNow plugin (v1.1.8) has added support for OAUTH 2.0 however, it's still asking to supply the username and password for generating Access Token, which can be a security violation in some companies as well as for ServiceNow ops tea...
18 days ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 1 Submitted

Allow IBM HTTP Server behind a proxy/LB that performs SSL offloading to become aware that the original request uses https

In a situation where IHS is behind another proxy/LB that performs SSL offloading, it would be beneficent to implement a behavior similar to WAS, to check a http header defined by the web container custom property 'httpsIndicatorHeader' to know tha...
21 days ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Helm artifactory for Liberty Operator

Most of the OEM software are packaged with helm. By having the helm artifactory, Liberty operator can be deployed in any flavor of kubernetes using helm deployment tool.
24 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Support non-default SSL configuration on unmanaged JAX-WS client

For Liberty managed instances of the JAX-WS client, you can configure the ssl-ref with configuration below <webservices-bnd> <port name=“SayHelloPojoPort” namespace=“http://ibm.com/ws/jaxws/transport/security/” ssl-ref=“customizeSSLConfig...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Enforcing logoff regardless of user activity after a duration

We need an automatic logoff after 12h, in order to enforce our security policies, that makes more efficient our sec policies.
about 1 month ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Submitted

To provide a 'relocate' function in Installation Manager

My client has a long history of using Installation Manager (IM) to set up WebSphere application servers (WAS). They take the IM default locations of 'Agent data location' and 'Shared resources directory.' Over the years, these directories have acc...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

WASPreUpgrade command allowed on the same version

Currently the WASPreUpgrade command is not allowed on the same version, so we must have two different versions installed on the same server or IBM i and run the command from the new version, entering the old version as a parameter. In scenarios of...
9 months ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Submitted

Outlook Actionable Message

RE: IBM Urbancode Deploy Approvals Because our UCD server is in a private network, responding to approval emails from Outlook Mobile is only possible through editing the email template and allow a port bacl to a broker to handle the call back the ...
about 1 month ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 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...
3 months ago in Transformation Advisor 1 Submitted