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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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Open Liberty : Reporting on jwt ALG usage

This ties to the Issue Reporting on jwt ALG usage #33270 raised on gitHub for Open Liberty. Please feel free to re-allocate to another Workspace if required. Describe the use case that you want to enable: The request to to report on ALG settings w...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty profile - Allow passing of variables to "include" elements in server.xml

WebSphere Liberty profile provides use of "include" elements and variables in the server.xml. However, the variables can only have one value - the last assigned value to the variable overrides all previous. This precludes the use of different vari...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

UCV - Non-cluster admin installation

I would like to be able to install UCV in OpenShift without the need of having cluster-admin role. Ideally providing it via operators coming from the operator hub – only from categories “Red Hat Operators”, “Certified Operators” alternatively “Red...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3 Not under consideration

Switch option to finish searching all repositories in the federated repositories right after user is found.

In customer's WAS 8.5.5.x system, many base entries for each CN entries in customer's LDAP are registered to the federated repositories. In current design, search results for user are returned after all repositories are searched. Federated reposit...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Enable mpMetric feature out of the box

The current implementation of MoRE does not implement the mpMetrics feature for the Liberty servers. Therefore there is no way to get performance metrics from the Liberty servers so the customers are basically "blind" regarding the performance met...
11 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java 1 Future consideration

Improve SystemD Integration

When a WebSphere Traditional service such as a node agent running as a SystemD service is restarted or stopped through the admin console, SystemD is not leveraged in this process meaning when the original node agent process is stopped, SystemD con...
11 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Provide "summary view" of WebSphere Automation registered servers, total servers, number of cores, etc

Since WebSphere servers are registered with WebSphere Automation, and WebSphere Automation is licensed on the total number of cores available to the registered WebSphere servers, we should provide a "summary page" that shows the total number of re...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration

Impersonation deployment issue due to wrong onwership on work directory

Impersonation deployments are failing with UCD agent where work directory does not have right ownership permission.When users run the impersonation deployment /work directory is not getting created with the parent directory permissions.For ex: If ...
about 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

"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...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 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...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Not under consideration