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WebSphere Automation

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Add a "Test" email button

When configuring the email server settings, it would be very helpful to have a "Test connection" type button to ensure the mail configuration works. In the event of an error, exposing the error through the UI (and not requiring directions to the p...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration

Increase filtering options in the UI

Hi, In our infrastructure, we have 5 cell names, each name represent all the environments of each one, I mean, the cell name 90app_cell ( for example ) is the same for each environment ( DEV/INTG/QA/PROD), and we maintain the same instance name in...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance patch automation to support tWAS instances installed by IM in Admin mode

Many tWAS instances were installed by IM in Admin mode. During WSA patch installation, the playbook terminated with error message: >>> ValueError: Installation directory is not owned by wasadmin but IM accessRights is admin The tWAS was ...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Export to PDF format (all assets, single server information)

At present, information can be exported as a CSV (comma separated values) format. Exporting the same data in PDF form would also be useful.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Show the Liberty features in the server details UI

Since Liberty features are used to determine security vulnerability, the server details UI should show the feature configuration. Any details that are used to determine the security posture of the server should be displayed on the server details p...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS monitoring

SSL/TLS certificate expiration is a common IT problem. The expiration could be on certificates used directly by WAS or by services WAS is dependent on.
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Include embedded products: BAW and ODM

I like the automation feature but it is incomplete without the embedded products. For eg, I cannot use its features on WebSphere that is underneath the BAW or ODM products. So far, I have discovered that even WAS that is installed as part of the p...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Support WSA deployed to Power (ppc64)

WebSphere Automation supports deployment to OpenShift on Intel / AMD (x64) and IBM Z Linux (s390x) platforms. This RFE is a request to support IBM Power (ppc64) platforms.
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Integrate with ServiceNow

ServiceNow is how we track change tickets. It would be nice if WebSphere Automation integrated with ServiceNow so that the installations driven by WebSphere Automation could be started from ServiceNow flows.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Assign a different CVSS score to CVEs based on org assessment

Our organization may wish to change the default CVSS score for a given CVE, based on our own assessment. We gather and store this information in variety of ways, but we do have internal APIs which could be used to collect the CVSS score to be assi...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration