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ClearQuest Web Server Using Tomcat Implementation

Implement ClearQuest web services using Apache Tomcat, including the companion Report Launcher. (1) ClearCase and ClearQuest are often deployed together and should offer parallel implementation solutions. In 2018, the ClearCase/ClearQuest roadmap ...
over 5 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest Future consideration

Websphere Audit log format

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing improvement on existing feature Description: We are using WAS 8.5.5 and 9.0. The audit log generated by WebSphere is in binary format which is not readable by QRadar. Request to generate the ...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Host an IBM-per-Customer Maven-Repository to download the WLP license files

Currently, downloading the WLP license files (base/core) requires manual steps: Logging in to IBM Browsing through Download Central Clicking through a set of sites Downloading the license Verifying the signature Re-Uploading to our internal reposi...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

UUCD 7 UI has a lot of white space and less information can fit in a window

We're updating from UCD 6.2 to 7.1. The UI has changed a lot and we are still getting used to it, but there are a few things worth mentioning. In this case it's about how much information can fit in a window. Not as much as in 6.2! I think the wor...
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Custom name for cache names

In several client, that they use liberty in their legacy or containerized deployments, when it use cache store with infinispan or others ( database, data grid, etc...) it will be useful the feature to customized the cache name, becasuse will be mo...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Extend Compact Agents to AIX

Managing Agents and keeping them up-to-date is hard when requirements change (like switch from Java 8 to 11). So central management of Java versions for Agents without impacting Java installations used by other applications is an essential feature...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

WebSphere should offer StartTLS support when connecting to LDAP server for authentication

When configuring WebSphere for LDAP authentication, if you select "use SSL", this forces WebSphere to establish an LDAPS connection with the LDAP server (port 636 by default). This is an outdated mechanism. LDAP v3 defines the StartTLS extension, ...
over 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Python 3.7.6 Cloud Pak System Supported

Supportability for Python 3 on PureApps/Cloud Pak Systems to execute cli commands to integrate with upstream and downstream products is currently unsupported.
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System Future consideration

Suport RMI/IIOP/ORB co-location optimization

If an application uses an EJB Remote interface instead of a local interface, and if the EJB is in the same JVM, each EJB call needs another thread in the Default Executor thread pool because the Liberty Yoko ORB does not support the optional co-lo...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Trusted DB2 for z/OS connection for Liberty Profile

It would be very helpful if WAS Liberty Profile supported DB2 trusted connections and trusted contexts. Right now I am forced to use SyncToOSThread functionality but that causes problems with authorization to write to log files. I am working on a ...
almost 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration