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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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Monitor UCD token expiry

As part of continuous deployments we have created tokens for external users(gitlab,jenkins) to connect to UCD and perform the deployments. we have very large footprint of applications using UCD to perform deployments for which we have created bunc...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

SERVERWLM Support for z/OS Connect

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

That HttpServletRequest getRequestURL(); should return protocol based on what kind of connection it is and not based on a incoming http header X-Forwarded-Proto:

if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain invalid value such as https if the connection is really a http connection getRequestURL should return http and not https and if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain https,http only the the value that match the connection should...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Add multiple component in Bulk add component menu

Hi, Our onboarding process becomes slow when dealing with multiple agents and multiple components. Currently, we need to go to the Resources menu, select all agents assigned to the resources, click Bulk Action, and then choose Add Component. Howev...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Under review

Need ability to visualize MDB activity and performance in Liberty [MONITOR]

Have historically made use of MDB's in addition to HTTP driven services in tWAS , but after starting the migration to Liberty we have no means to actively i real time visualize performance or even occurrence of activity regarding MDB's.We would li...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Planned for future release

Liberty z/OS -J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) to DB2 (setDB2ClientUser)

Liberty z/OS applications require audit and logging in DB2. We need to know who made the changes in the database records. The idea is to pass to the DB2 the J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) and put it on the setDB2ClientUser for the DB2 connection...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Utility to update ALBD service credentials

For previous versions of ClearCase (<9.x) there was a utility provided by IBM to update the ALBD credentials while storing the password in an encrypted format (CCALBDPW.exe). That utility does not work starting with ClearCase 9.x. Need an equiv...
over 7 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Not under consideration

Add support for unsupported objects in Websphere configure - partial apply step

Please add support in Websphere configuration - partial apply step for applying configuration for following objects: Resource Environment Provider (REP), Resource Environment Entries (REE), Resource Adapters, J2C connection factories and shared li...
almost 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

How can we configure Liberty so that only specific URL patterns use OIDC, and all others bypass OIDC and fall back to BasicAuth—even if the JWT contains the same issuer?

We are using a single z/OS Connect server instance. After applying the OIDC configuration on the server, we observed that requests whose URL patterns do not match the configured OIDC scopes — but still contain a JWT in any header — do not fall bac...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Not under consideration

RPT 11.0.4 Agent - Add Oracle Linux as a supported OS

We are running our ‘DevOps Test Performance’(previously RPT) agents on Oracle Linux. We've been told OEL is not a supported OS. At this time, we are able to execute our tests using the agents, but we are unable to monitor their system metrics(CPU,...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 2 Not under consideration