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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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Session rebalancing and affinity switchback default value are mismatch in dynamic cluster

WAS default dynamic cluster settings are following. #1. HttpSessionRebalanceOff=false (*1) : this indicates that session rebalancing is ON. #2. NoAffinitySwitchBack=false (*2) : this indicates that affinity switchback is ON. In other words, when o...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Dynatrace UCV Integration

Dynatrace monitoring is effective for enterprise applications and provides a centralized dashboard view for the applications. UCV integration to Dynatrace can add more details/specifics to Dynatrace server to populate the reports/dashboards in muc...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3 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

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

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

Executive Summary and Transaction reports in a word Docs

Reports need to be in an editable format that can be sent by email, upload to RQM as a document in the test plan, and be able to be uploaded into other in-house customers applications.
over 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 3 Future consideration

Mapping of a role in a JWT token to a technical user ID in SAF/RACF

As of today only WebSphere Liberty on z/OS and z/OS Connect EE (which is also based on WebSphere Liberty on z/OS) can only map the distributed user ID in a JWT token to a mainframe user ID in SAF/RACF. This is a problem when there is no equivalent...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports.

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports. Use case is to provide a mechanism to exclude statistics for Pages/Request used for polling (heartbeat), setup, teardown, etc. Specific use case: The solutio...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 1 Future consideration

Automatic Email Notification using Functional Test Perspective

It would be good if we can have automatic email notification once tests complete/failed during execution in Functional Test Perspective. Currently there is no concrete solution for this. But we are looking for this as we have huge tests for which ...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 0 Not under consideration

[Copy] Provide an option that allows WebSphere Liberty database pool to maintain a minNumber of "warm" connections.

The current configuration options that are available in WLP do not allow for maintaining a minPoolSize number of connections in a given connection pool. Any events of connection aging (for example timeouts that can occur on the WLP side as well as...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration