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display FQN for other related element in class properties relationships

if you have nested class A::Pattern and nested class B::Pattern and class C generalizes both A::Pattern and B::Patern then you see "Pattern" twice in the "Other Related Element(s)" column you should display "A::Pattern" and "B::Pattern" don't need...
16 days ago in Heritage / Model RealTime Submitted

need multiselect for filtering compartment items on uml diagrams

o the following steps accurately describe the problem in this case: Create a UML project & model Add, for example, a class to the model Add a large number of operations to the class Drop the class onto the Main diagram Select Filters > Sort...
16 days ago in Heritage / Model RealTime Submitted

support CORBA with .tcjs and model compiler

DMRT switched from .tc to .tcjs (for c++) around 11.x.x (w model compiler) DMRT has not updated (for CORBA) the IDL transforms it would be easier/more consistant to have CORBA/IDL work more similarly to the way C++ works
16 days ago in Heritage / Model RealTime Submitted

Urgent Need for a Distinct Separation Between Auditor Authority and Administrator Authority

WebSphere Application Server users need a Distinct Separation Between Auditor Authority and Administrator Authority Category: Security, Auditing, and Compliance Executive Summary: The current WebSphere Application Server design allows users such a...
9 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Add support for standard MIBs for SNMPv3

WAS 9 SNMPv3 capability is used for PMI exposure only, market standard MIBs are not used. We request to add support for standard MIBs to be used with external monitorizing tools, like PRTG
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Ability for the plug in to leverage the sysplex distributor for the DDVIPA to determine when a systems is up

We currently have a case with IBM open on this and is effecting our production systems. If you reach out to me, i will share the case number. Not wanting to put that in the IDEA When shutting down an LPAR in a plex, and is removed by the TCPIP LEA...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

WAS for z/OS Liberty reconnects to RRS when RRS is terminated and restarted.

Backgrounds Customer is planning to migrate from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty and is validating whether or not there are some incompatibility, and also there are no problem through the extensive testing. When customer conducted...
18 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Publish Application Modernization Accelerator in the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog

Publishing Application Modernization Accelerator in the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog streamlines Red Hat OpenShift deployment and support.
4 months ago in App Runtime Tooling Planned for future release

New configuration to disable error BadPaddingException when server starts with different keystore_password

Due to the changes in WAS Liberty 26.0.0.4 "LTPA keysPassword default value removal" and setting keystore_password, we now get error BadPaddingException on each new server startup, because the password in keystore_password differs from the default...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Is a defect

Allow a transport to be excluded from the plug-in generation

To allow separation of applications on different thread pools (and associated transports), it would be useful to be able to specify which transport(s) propagate to the web server plug-in and which ones don't. Be it with some custom property or els...
3 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration