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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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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...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 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

Rest API and download option for Java packages from UCD UI

As Java are managed on UCD UI, if we have a rest api to download. this will give us an option to download and use java wherever we want.Also, if we can download option on UCD UI for Java to be downloaded
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Support for SOAP over JMS for transporting web service messages on Liberty Server

We (www.atp.dk/en) need support for the W3C Standard SOAP over JMS as we are migrating from WAS to Liberty and alot of our applications are using exactly this protocol. Liberty doesn't support this protocol, however WAS does. Refer to WAS document...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Add branch control capabilities to ClearTeam Explorer Version Tree.

On UNIX/Linux, the native Motif based Version Tree browser had the capabilities to create/remove branch types, as well as, the ability to attach and remove branch instances. Base ClearCase users found this to be useful where they wanted to create ...
10 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Under review

Action Based Security

This idea is to be able to manage "actions" in the role configuration. An example would be under "Resource", "Create Resource" we would have the actions "Create" & "Copy" and under "Edit" we would have "Update a resource's parent". Ideally we'...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Future consideration

SSL Handshake should not fail if CRLDP present in certificate is not reachable

We have observed one behavior in WAS traditional after enabling CRL. When any certificate presented to WAS for authentication and having CRLDP which is not reachable then SSL HANDSHAKE failed with below exception.Caused by: javax.naming.Communicat...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Docker Build Fails Due to Feature install , Docker Build on N/W

We are using a Full Liberty image as base image to build our Applicaiton Docker image, However when the configure.sh script is excecuted the Build fails as it cannot connect to the feature repo URL while on Office N/W due to proxy and firewall rul...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

Support Java 8 or later for PureCLI

According to the documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-pak-system-w4600/2.3.3?topic=reference-downloading-command-line-interface) and from the "Readme" file of PureCLI, the command-line interface PureCLI only supports Java 6 and Java 7 ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1

WebSphere Audit Functionality

Using the Audit feature we want to be able to log any type of configuration change.What was the change, at what time and with what userid.Currently the only filter that allows that is “RESOURCE_ACCESS:SUCCESS ”, the problem is that it logs everyth...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration