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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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Improve RHEL 8 lifecycle support on Cloud Pak System

We are not in a position to get a RHEL 8.x minor release rolled out at scale within the 2 years of EUS provided by Red Hat (please also refer to the uploaded diagram: IBM CPS – RHEL 8 lifecycle challenge.pdf): - Red Hat provides 2 years of EUS (ex...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Planned for future release

Support FIPS 140-3 in WebSphere Liberty Core with IBM Semeru 21

Existing 140-2 support is becoming deprecated and certification is available for IBM Semeru Java for FIPS 140-3. Futhermore Java 8 we are currently using will reach EOS in 2025. We would like to move to IBM Semeru Java 21 for WebSphere Liberty and...
23 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Submitted

WebSphere ND Primary FID (wasinternaluser) should disable in console (not from backend)

We are the internal WebSphere ND engineering team at Citi, responsible for automating end-to-end installations across the global Citi network, encompassing over 10,000 servers. Approximately one year ago, Citi's security team raised concerns regar...
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review

SAML Single Sign On or Single Logout to support HTTP-Redirect Binding

Liberty seems to only support HTTP-POST binding for SAML Login and Logout based on our investigation <md:SingleLogoutService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://......." />We have configured our applica...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Improve and simplify the setup of Liberty InstantOn including a better step-to-step guide

The openliberty.io page is great to provide some guidance on implementing Liberty InstantOn. The problem I find is the guide is a little too high level. I had to restort to much searching to find githib labs and other documents to actually complet...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Better error reporting for Liberty InstantOn

I have been working with WebSphere Liberty InstantOn in OpenShift on the X86 and Power-10 platforms. One of the most challenging aspects revolves around the error reporting of both OpenShift errors and more specifically the CRIU errors. It has bee...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Environment Properties should override Environment Template Properties

I don't know if this is the intended behavior, defect or user error. I have an Application Template. Within the Application Template are Environment Templates. Within the Environment Templates there are properties defined. I would like to be able ...
about 2 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Functionality already exists

REST API to manage the permission entitlements

Hi Team, We are looking for a REST API which can help us to manage the permissions entitlements in UrbanCode with respect to roles.Where we provide input as YAML file for example as listed below and that helps us to replicate the permissions for t...
5 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Under review

Extend "Role Mappings" in the "Map Users and Groups to Roles for Application" step of UCD to support more than 5 arguments.

WAS supports more arguments and UCD chops off anything after 5. This is causing issues in the deployment cycle and is a limitation to our processes. We are fully aware of how the configuration works in WAS Admin console and WAS Admin scripting, bu...
25 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Support virtual baseDN mapping im Liberty to improve SSO with tWAS

VMM in tWAS environments are supporting virtual baseDN in VMM which are then via wimconfig.xml mapped to real LDAP baseDNs via the baseEntries configuration like for example <baseEntries name="cn=externalUsers" nameInRepository="cn=users,cn=ext...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration