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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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    Trusted DB2 for z/OS connection for Liberty Profile

    It would be very helpful if WAS Liberty Profile supported DB2 trusted connections and trusted contexts. Right now I am forced to use SyncToOSThread functionality but that causes problems with authorization to write to log files. I am working on a ...
    about 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration

    websphere liberty password identification if encoded with custom aes key or default key

    Hi Team, From 26.0.0.3 custom aes key implementation is enforced. https://openliberty.io/blog/2025/12/02/25.0.0.12.html#aes256 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=slia-supplying-your-own-aes-256-key-password-encryption Now as earlie...
    5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

    Read-only or Role based access on AMA tool

    As of now users can create workspaces, upload to any workspace, and delete anything. With a role based or read only access we can better control/manage the data and structure of the workspaces.
    over 1 year ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Submitted

    Provide the ability to assign "All Teams" to an object in UrbanCode Deploy

    Our team uses UrbanCode Deploy for software deployments. However, we have several components and templates that are 'shared' among all users of the product. With current functionality, every team that wishes to consume one of these objects must be...
    over 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

    Support custom Eclipse options in ClearCase help browser spawned by cleartool man or the "online help" option on Windows.

    In the current releases, cleartool man on windows spawns CTE... If the host is impacted by Eclipse issue https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/issues/1704 The help pages will not display correctly, possibly losing the table of co...
    5 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Submitted

    Support JDBC 4.2 in WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5

    WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 supports Java SE 8. It should support JDBC 4.2 in accordance with specification of JSE 8 (https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337). However, the latest system requirement of WAS 8.5.5 only states support of JDBC up ...
    over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

    Provide the function to schedule patch installation jobs

    This is part 3 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 and is built on top of WASINTOPS-I-109. The customer would like to use the GUI of WSA to select one or more servers, display the list of unresolved vulnerabilities, cho...
    about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

    ClearQuest install should check for existence of dependent libraries and error or warn if they're not present

    Our ClearQuest prerequisites mention this requirement, but the ClearQuest install is allowed to complete (without any error or warning), even when these dependent libraries are not present. This yields errors when running the product after the "su...
    over 5 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

    Getting Peak License Usage

    We are occasionally asked to report our “peak” license usage. This has historically been difficult to determine because there is no persistent history tracking agent license consumption. While there is a high watermark metric (via getHighWatermark...
    5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

    Enable Stdout Protection – to prevent log files from being overwritten during server startups

    We identified the following file, which is overwritten whenever the server is restarted: /opt/IBM/devops_deploy/server/var/log/stdout This file contains information that differs from deployserver.out and is valuable for debugging purposes. Current...
    5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Functionality already exists

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