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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 message detail for CWWKS1777E

Current format of message is as below: ibm.ws.security.openidconnect.common.OidcCommonClientRequest E CWWKS1777E: Validation failed for the token requested by [RS_CREDENTIAL] due to a mismatch of signing algorithms between the OpenID Connect clien...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Make compression feature extensible

Currently, Liberty only supports gzip and deflate, as already stated in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LIBERTY-I-144 However, it is impossible for users to add new compressions globally, as the classes are not extensible at all. I think the relevant ...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Allow JNDI as a mpConfig configuration source to allow encryption of secrets

Currently, it is not clear whether any configuration source can benefit from the liberty encryption.If this was possible, the secrets could be stored on disk in an encrypted way. I know JNDI properties can be encrypted, so let's add JNDI to the ex...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Not under consideration

Change the license type

To avoid UCD outages (what means no deployments anywhere) during license key server downtime even when LKS has HA redundant server configuration (while license servers may be kept by different team and had downtime issues), the UCD licenses should...
about 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Automatically propagate SAF identity when client and server are in the same cluster

For z/OS, customers are always logged into the traditional environments. This means they have an identity that is verified and trustable. The z/OS TCP/IP stack and the Java runtime support the notion of trusted identity propagation. The client mus...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support AWSSecretsManagerPostgreSQLDriver on WebSphere Liberty for AWS - EKS deployments

Deployment of an application on Websphere Liberty that uses AWS Secret Manager for password rotation. The IBM ODM team (Russell Scher) worked on this request and received some feedback from Fred Rowe in relation to the issue.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

RIT Agent should have a script for stopping it

So far up to RIT Agent version 11.0.1, it hasn't a script for shutting it down, so whenever a user wants to stop RIT Agent, process killing is the only way. A dirty process killing may leave RIT Agent, Engines and KairosDB in a bad status so poten...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 1 Future consideration

We cannot keep all the files of the multiple fixpack upgrades as it requires a lot of disk space and keeps growing. It is not feasible to keep on increasing the size of disk space.

It will allow users to save disk space We cannot keep all the files of the multiple fixpack upgrades as it requires a lot of disk space and keeps growing. It is not feasible to keep on increasing the size of disk space. So we need to know the safe...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

LIBERTY and configuration validation when starting

1)Liberty read configuration from server.xmlBut if it exists bad configuration it will start without any fatal errors. (ignore the xml that liberty does not understand)It is a kind of “best effort” starting that I do not want.I prefer that It does...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration