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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 configure AD Group in UCD instead of individual members added

To configure AD Group in UCD instead of individual members added, So can we sync the Ad group to UCD groups which reduces effort on adding individual members.
6 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

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 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Improve and simplify the setup of Liberty InstantOn including a better step-to-step guide

The openliberty.io page is great to provide some guidance on implementing Liberty InstantOn. The problem I find is the guide is a little too high level. I had to restort to much searching to find githib labs and other documents to actually complet...
25 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Better error reporting for Liberty InstantOn

I have been working with WebSphere Liberty InstantOn in OpenShift on the X86 and Power-10 platforms. One of the most challenging aspects revolves around the error reporting of both OpenShift errors and more specifically the CRIU errors. It has bee...
25 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Provide support for MQ Classes for JMS in Liberty

RFE to provide support for MQ Classes for JMS in Liberty: Migrating Applications from tWAS that use MQ Classes for JMS or MQ Classes for Java to another J2EE environment not supported for Liberty, but is supported for any other J2EE environment. A...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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...
12 days ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Add funtionality to Liberty so Handling of WAR manifest class paths is the same between tWAS and Liberty Deployments

Useful for anyone trying to migrate from tWAS to Liberty using ear files with mainfest class path outside WAR. Behavior difference between WAS traditional and Liberty regarding the handling of WAR manifest class paths. In WAS traditional, class pa...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

AES256 product enhancement for twas on password encoding

twas 8.5.5 and twas 9 doesnt have support for AES-256 encryption of passwords. Presently supports only AES-128 encryption. Need help to enhance this password encryption/encoding of AES to 256 bits/keylength. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was/9.0.5?t...
3 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

WebSphere ND Primary FID (wasinternaluser) should disable in console (not from backend)

We are the internal WebSphere ND engineering team at Citi, responsible for automating end-to-end installations across the global Citi network, encompassing over 10,000 servers. Approximately one year ago, Citi's security team raised concerns regar...
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Separate build messages for multiple TC builds

Make it possible to build several TCs in parallel and report build messages in a way so it can be understood to which TC build each message belongs, both while the builds are running and after they have finished.
15 days ago in DevOps Model & Code / Model RealTime 0 Submitted