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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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CaaC to update Component and Application process

If we can update or create component and Application Process thru code like it is in other tools like Ansible, then we can have a controlled environment for all changes from a repo and also there is no need of a separate support team who have acce...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Needs more information

Port the DISPLAY,ADAPTER,REGISTRATIONS and DISPLAY,ADAPTER from WAS on Z to Liberty Z

In WAS we are able to display the WOLA registrations between WAS and CICS. Looking to add the same functionality to Liberty on Z . We have automation around this command in WAS, as we move to Liberty , looking to replicate that process in Liberty.
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support custom tablespaces for the setupIdMgrDBTables command

Hello IBM,this idea is based on HCL DX technote https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0132913 . Currently IBM provides the setupIdMgrDBTables command to create a database related VMM DB as described at URL: https...
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

wsAtomicTransaction always enabled in Liberty

tWAS allows the use of policy sets which the customer has used to control whether WS-AT is active for individual web service endpointsLiberty does not have this function (policy sets)Liberty enables/disables WS-AT based on the presence or absence ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1

Websphere liberty AES256 custom key in xml not secured

Issue Details From 26.0.0.3 Default key usage is removed from Liberty for usage along with securityUtility command for AES256 encoding of passwords New Solution delivered in 25.0.0.12 for appending our own custom AES key for encryption of password...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

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.
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Functionality already exists

New configuration to disable error BadPaddingException when server starts with different keystore_password

Due to the changes in WAS Liberty 26.0.0.4 "LTPA keysPassword default value removal" and setting keystore_password, we now get error BadPaddingException on each new server startup, because the password in keystore_password differs from the default...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Is a defect

Allow a transport to be excluded from the plug-in generation

To allow separation of applications on different thread pools (and associated transports), it would be useful to be able to specify which transport(s) propagate to the web server plug-in and which ones don't. Be it with some custom property or els...
5 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Future consideration