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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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Deployment Manager DR strategy on AWS through AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

It is useful since the customer is deploying traditional BAW 24 in AWS using EC2 instances. In QA and Prod there is an active passive stray nodes deployment across two availability zones within the same region. Therefore to follow recommended DR f...
5 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Not under consideration

Enable WebSphere ND "Test Connection" to Support Custom LoginModule via J2C-JAAS

Idea Summary: Enhance the WebSphere ND administrative console's "Test Connection" function so that it leverages the same internal logic path used by application code, enabling support for custom credential retrieval mechanisms implemented via a cu...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

The stopServer and startServer script and the wsadmin tool cannot handle passwords containing special charachters

When stopping and starting the WebSphere server, or when using the wsadmin tool the user would like to copy paste the password from their password store (for example Keepass). This is not working when the string contains special characters. To be ...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Customize the inbuilt report generation functionality in the DTIA

DTIA now provides a fixed reporting interface under "Results Gallery" section and does not allow users to modify it. For example, you would like to add additional columns in existing default table.
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Workbench 0 Not under consideration

Logs rollover in IBM WebSphere Liberty should provide an option use compress the rolled over logs

The rollover of log files without retention through archiving causes difficulty in troubleshooting past failed events. The messages.log file is automatically getting rollover and creating file with timestamp format like messages_25.07.05_01.53.47....
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow wildcard or mutiple entries, on an RDN entry in the controller.xml file

When configuring a collective, in the controller.xml file, we specify a collectiveCertificate rdn value - to allow members and the collector to talk to each other.We user RACF to create and store our certificates, where many of the fields are pre-...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Email Notification using Functional Test Perspective

It would be good if we can have automatic email notification once tests complete/failed during execution in Functional Test Perspective. Currently there is no concrete solution for this. But we are looking for this as we have huge tests for which ...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 0 Not under consideration

[Copy] Provide an option that allows WebSphere Liberty database pool to maintain a minNumber of "warm" connections.

The current configuration options that are available in WLP do not allow for maintaining a minPoolSize number of connections in a given connection pool. Any events of connection aging (for example timeouts that can occur on the WLP side as well as...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Create a new ROLE in the Admin Centre

Currently, there are only two roles - ADMIN - access everythingREADER - BROWSECould you create a new role, to allow application developers the access to STOP/START the micro-services only. This would remove any intervention required by the CICS Te...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Improve Error Messaging for Virtual Host Port Mismatch

When the <virtualHost> block is configured to allow traffic only from: <hostAlias>*:9444</hostAlias> but the server is actually listening on port 9443, any attempt by a user to access the application results in the following misl...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration