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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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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

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

Implement DHE ciphers in IBM HTTP Server to provide Forward Secrecy to clients that do not support ECDHE ciphers

We use IBM HTTP Server 8.5.5 as HTTPS gateway in front of WebSphere Application Server portal system to service a multitude of different, external clients via internet. Those clients are outside our scope of influence, so we cannot dictate securit...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under 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 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

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 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Hub 0 Future 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...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Not under consideration

Display the compute nodes with their FQDN in vCenter instead of their IP

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/it...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0

Highlight changes in draft process

It is difficult to see exactly where the changes are in a draft when using Safe edit for component processes. It would help both the developer and colleagues doing review if the process editor could highlight changed steps and properties. The high...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8

Plugin Generation Utility implement File Serving Enabled/Disabled feature that mimics traditional websphere

This is useful when we have multiple web application modules in a EAR application and want to designate one of them as a default application by providing / as webcontext.
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Keep preferences when moving databases to new location when using direct LDAP connection

With direct connection from Rational Change to a corporate LDAP server (Change 5.3.2.2), the possibility to move a database to a new location in the file system while keeping all existing preferences has been removed.In RDS this was possible by ex...
over 5 years ago in Heritage 1 Not under consideration