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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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Reload certificate chain when one of the signer certicate expired during IHS runtime

Supposed we have 2 intermediate CA certificates which have the same key identifier and same public key in IHS SSL keystore. These 2 certificates are still within their validity period, which is not uncommon when a CA is rolling update their certif...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

checkvob should detect corrupted containers

Add a checkvob option to scan the VOB for corrupted source container. That option will prevent critical situation such as multisite replication stuck because of corrupted container. Currently the only way is to open all files until an error is pro...
over 4 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

ship 32bit libraries with 64bit ClearCase installations

We have multiple deployments of 32bit Perl insterpreter installations with the CtCmd binding rolled out. If we switch to ClearCase 9.0.1 and 64bit (as it is today in 9.0.1.0), these existing deployments will cease to work.We are wondering whether ...
about 9 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Allow wildcard or mutiple entries, on an RDN entry in the controller.xml file

When configuring a collective, in the controller.xml file, we specify a collectiveCertificate rdn value - to allow members and the collector to talk to each other.We user RACF to create and store our certificates, where many of the fields are pre-...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Allow usage of z/OSMF JWT tokens by multiple sessions using the same user ID

We are using new APIs to obtain JWT tokens (/zosmf/services/authenticate) from our automated scripts that use other z/OSMF REST APIs with the obtained. After the script completes, it calls the DELETE method to invalidate the token that it obtained...
over 5 years 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 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

pluginConfiguration - functionality to change the LogLevel during plugin generation

We are running Liberty z/OS and we would like to set the Loglevel in logs/state/plugin-cfg.xml file https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/zos?topic=SS7K4U_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.autogen.nd.doc/ae/rwlp_config_pluginConfiguration.html p...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Liberty zOS - add capability to selectivity use mapDistributedIdentities via TAI

Provide way to let Liberty on zOS be configured so that can selectivity specify that some validated users are mapped to RACF but others use other security set up in Liberty such as an external LDAP Further detail: Provide a way to set up the Liber...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty thin client for JMS

Our product uses the JMS support within Liberty to publish messages that can be subscribed to by clients (Eclipse plug-in or Ant build) to get feedback on long running processes. Currently we rely on the WAS thin client for JMS to provide this cap...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Fix behavior of Terminate Threads setting

Setting the Terminate Threads setting to Yes (default is No) is described as having the following effect: "Determines when a threaded step fails. All other active thread blocks in the same project are stopped", which is what we want to happen. Ref...
over 2 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 0 Future consideration