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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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Allow for more than 100 links in RSA Design Manager v 6.

This request is for RSA DM; the only Product option in the online form was Rhapsody DM.Current limit of 100 links from a DM element/component to other JAZZ apps is not adequate for the large application that is being designed and developed. At lea...
about 9 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 3 Not under 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

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

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...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future 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

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 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

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

To include IMShared directory in the WebSphere Automation backup

During the fix installation process, WebSphere Application Server (WSA) provides the option to back up the following directories:1. The Installation Manager installation directory2. The Installation Manager data directory3. The WebSphere Applicati...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Under review