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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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To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for one WebSphere Application Server

The IDEA is part 1 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107; it limits the change scope to one server. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSph...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Process Execution for managed Liberty servers to customize umask, runtime user & group definitions

Traditional WAS allows process execution panel to customize Umask settings (eg: 027) , "Run As User" (eg: runtime service id) & "Run As Group"(primry group for rutime service ID), MoRE doesn't have the feature for managed Liberty server, leavi...
5 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java 0 Planned for future release

Provide mTLS support in web utilities plugin for REST HTTP calls

currently web utilities plugin supports basic authentication only for HTTP calls and this does not meet our security standards for automation.
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Customizing application installation path similar to tWAS

We deploy applications in tWAS today by specifying application installation path to a custom directory outside of configurations to avoid default installedApps directory which is subject to stricter access control, by specifying a custom path inte...
5 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java 0 Planned for future release

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSphere and Liberty servers. It facilitates the application of security fixes one by one on each server.Some customers have hundre...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Planned for future release

Eclipse 4.32 support for ClearCase 10.0.1.x

The customer is one of the biggest WAS customer in Japan, having over 40,000PVUs inventory. They uses ClearCase 10.0.1.0 for SCM. To upgrade Java IDE, they plan to use Eclipse 4.32 and IBM Liberty Developer Tools. But now, ClearCase 10.0.1.0 - 10....
over 1 year ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Planned for future release

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...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Planned for future release

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

This IDEA is part 2 of https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 . it builds on top of IDEA WASINTOPS-I-109 and extend to multiple servers. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect tr...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Metrics for deployments to show actual deployer

By specifying the user that triggered the deployment, the metrics become much more meaningful
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 2 Planned for future release

Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Planned for future release