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websphere liberty password identification if encoded with custom aes key or default key

Hi Team, From 26.0.0.3 custom aes key implementation is enforced. https://openliberty.io/blog/2025/12/02/25.0.0.12.html#aes256 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=slia-supplying-your-own-aes-256-key-password-encryption Now as earlie...
28 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

The license for IBM Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) should be included in WebSphere Application Server for z/OS.

Customers plan to migrate traditional WebSphere Application Server for z/OS to Liberty for z/OS.To support this migration, customers intend to use IBM Bob together with IBM Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) to generate deployment plans a...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere traditional Under review

Session Timeout returned to default after product upgrade

The web.xml config is replaced everytime a new Devops Deploy version is installed. It would be great to have a customized setting on GUI "Server Settings" to manage the Timeout (by default 30 minutes) instead of going to specific configuration fil...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Needs more information

To configure AD Group in UCD instead of individual members added

To configure AD Group in UCD instead of individual members added, So can we sync the Ad group to UCD groups which reduces effort on adding individual members.
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Functionality already exists

OpenTelemetry Tracing support of WOLA

Looking for OTEL to support tracing for WAS to CICS
about 2 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

"Modify" installs that do not manipulate the albd service should not prompt for albd process credentials.

When performing upgrade or modify installs, Installation Manager requires that the installing user provide the albd credentials. In "modify" cases where -- for example -- the user is adding a Visual Studio or other integration, the installer shoul...
4 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase Submitted

Support custom Eclipse options in ClearCase help browser spawned by cleartool man or the "online help" option on Windows.

In the current releases, cleartool man on windows spawns CTE... If the host is impacted by Eclipse issue https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/issues/1704 The help pages will not display correctly, possibly losing the table of co...
about 1 month ago in Heritage / ClearCase Submitted

We would like to have an SMF-record written for every MDB-request executed in a Liberty server

In traditional WAS we make use of the 120.9 record to analyze our different kind of WAS-load, regarding problem determination, cpu consumption, performance and transaction volumes.We want to do the same in Liberty, but are there delimited by just ...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Masking specific field values directly at the test level in DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (DTIA)

Currently, DTIA does not support masking the field values directly at the test level. It does support data masking method at both at schema and non-schema levels which can be applied only when you attempt recording traffic. Ie; Currently DTIA supp...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Workbench Future consideration

Python 3.4 Security Vulnerability

Python 2.7.15 is used within PureApp (FW 2.3.2.0.) currently in production within client. This Python version and versions up to 3.4 show security issues CVE-2013-4238, CVE-2013-1752. Vulnerability has been known since 2015.Pls see description PMR...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System Future consideration