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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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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

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

This is regarding exporting/importing entire application from one server (UCD environment) to another. While exporting an application, it would be beneficial to show options (checkboxes/radio buttons), such as Export Properties with secrets, Export Properties without secrets, Exclude Properties, Exclude Teams

Depending on the requirements, user should be able to choose what details need be exported in an application. The above mentioned options can help user to choose/ignore the details while exporting/importing application. Also it would be of great h...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Additional properties for the UrbanCode git plugin

We need to have more customization in our git config and would like to be able to configure that through the component properties on our git components.
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

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

Optional Description Parameter for buztool

Hello IBM DevOps Deploy Team, We would like to propose a small enhancement to the buztool tool. Currently, when creating a component version with buztool, there is no option to set the version description at creation time. It would be very useful ...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

Adaptive Connection Pool Throttling based on Latency

In high-load environments, when a backend resource (like a JMS) starts slowing down, the standard behavior of a connection pool is to open more connections to handle the queue, up to the maxPoolSize. This often creates a "death spiral" where the i...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Allow to rename WebSphere traditional server-name

The renaming of WAS server-name is not support, the rename in WAS of hostname, Cell and node is supported. A reason that need to rename server name: There are times that there is a mistake in WAS server-name that it was built and a rename of serve...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Not under consideration

Make Locks table usable for all

The locks table does not load for users if they lack certain read permissions. Being able to identify what's holding a lock is a useful function that should be more accessible to all. Instead of nothing loading, it would be better if at least a su...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

MoRE support for tWAS on z/OS

MoRE support to tWAS to z/OS to help ease the transition to Liberty z/OS.