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Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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"Quality of Protection (QoP) settings" display box leads to security breaches

The SSL Quality of Protection (QoP) settings (SSL certificate and key management > SSL configuration > NodeDefaultSSLSettings) panel is particularly frustrating to use and leads to security breaches 1- The list of available ciphers is contai...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Java 21.

Java 21 is available for more than 1,5 year and developers need to use it.
10 months ago in Heritage / Model Architect 0 Under review

Need capability for restarting the failed process from the plugin step which actually failed

Currently when we repeat the failed process, it starts another run altogether and hence starts from begining again. Instead we want a capability of restarting from the failed step similar to what a mainframe JCL offers. This functionality is very ...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement Filtering in notification

There is no filter to choose under what criteria to send notification to whom. e.g. Different teams are responsible for different cells, so notification can be sent based on cell names and the target team. Or some managers prefer to get notificati...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Clustered EJB Timer service

The integrated EJB Timer service has to be configured for each application server. While providing support to client I discovered that the EJB Timer Service is configured for APPServer1 and APPServer2 separately by going inside path "Servers > ...
10 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Functionality already exists

Implementing Time-Based execution lock for Application processes

Hello Team, To control and restrict when an application process can be executed, we need to implement a time-based execution lock. This mechanism will allow the process to run only within a specified time window, ensuring it is executed only durin...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under consideration

Liberty z/OS SyncToOSThread support for J2C resource adapters

JCA resource adapters in WAS for z/OS (full profile) are able to exploit native z/OS security features when SyncToOSThread is enabled. However, the JCA resource adapter code needs use SyncToOSThread independently of the wider web application, so a...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Not under consideration

Reporting and cleanup of agents

We name nearly all agents for the hostname. We have hosts get retired but the agent still shows in the console as offline. We currently have inexact and processes to check ServiceNow to see if it's retired, ,and then come back to see for those tha...
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

OIDC integration with the the IBM IHS HTTP Server

I know that the apache web server has and oidc module and the IBM's HTTP Server is built on it. But IBM doesn't support the use of the oidc module. It would be great if IBM could support the use of the oidc module in it's HTTP Server. This would a...
10 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Fail Fast External Approval Process

In our testing of the External Approval Process we have seen that it waits until the scheduled deployment time to execute the External Approval Process. We would like to be able to configure it so that the External Approval Process executes immedi...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4