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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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Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Improve error messages

Currently there is an error message that can show up when creating a deployment plan that is 'Could not start plan'. This can be of a variety of reasons. It took too long and it timed out, or the version isn't available in UCD. Rather than a gener...
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 0 Future consideration

Upgrade wadamin jyton to Python 3.9.4

We have a requirement to update WAS settings from within the secure wsadmin.sh runtime. The updates require calling out to other servers in our network using REST-ful calls. The GitHub "requests" module meets most needs. But we can not use it beca...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Automated In-Doubt TX Cleanup

When there are in-doubt txs in the tranlog and partnerlogs when we undeploy an ear with a BPM resource adapter in it, there is no step done to clear the entries in the tranlog and partnerlog. Over time as we deploy new versions of our BPM applicat...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

SOAP Call (JAX-WS) with LTPA from Liberty

We need support for LTPA when calling a SOAP Service from an application running on Liberty (please see use case below).
about 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Provide a shared service for Flexera FNMS (as an alternative for BigFix/IBM Endpoint Manager Service)

Since v2.3.3.2 of Cloud Pak System, BigFix entitlement is no longer included. Our organization is transitioning to Flexera FNMS (FlexNet Manager Suite), an IBM-certified alternative to BigFix/ILMT as described here (https://www.flexera.com/blog/i...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Future consideration

support for creating OpenAPI3.1 yaml

a recent update was made to the OpenAPI spec that enhances the JSON Schema support. This is OpenAPI3.1

RTAS Installation with No-Cluster Admin

RTAS installation in Openshift requires Cluster Admin rights and this permission is not possible for a organization using Openshift platform with a multi-tenant topology Requiring a Cluster Admin for installation of the product is not possible sin...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 0 Future consideration

adjust file permissions for the secured-installed.properties file on the deploy server

The `/<UCD_INSTALL_HOME>/conf/server/secured-installed.properties` file permissions is to open, at 0644. Changing this to 0600 or 0640 ends up reverting back to 0644 once the server or the deploy server application is restart. Since this fil...
6 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

Fix Activation Spec status display in Admin Console

The status reported in the Admin Console for Activation Specs is broken - we had a stopped Activation Spec and it showed as "green" (Active). Admin Console should reflect accurate status information to benefit all systems programmers and applicati...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration