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Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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WebSphere Application Server Support for HashiCorp Vault usage

Our organization mandates the use of HashiCorp Vault to store and retrieve passwords. For Applications hosted on WebSphere Application Server, there is no direct support to make use of HashiCorp Vault to store/retrieve database password as part of...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

multiple jwksUri in configuration file jwt_sso_mdm.xml

As IWS admin we would like to set up primary and backup console to be connected with primary and backup MDM using SSO and openID authentication. Right now only one console can be connected with one MDM so during the failover we have to manually re...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

New API method to obtain component versions selected on a Application Process Request

We have an External Approval Process that needs to know which component versions are being deployed to do the validation.We opened a case and been provided with a 'unsuported' rest API call that provides this information. We open this IDEA to make...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

UCD Packaging v2 vs UCD Packaging v1 (Creating sidefiles for Fault Analyzer for Assembler-modules, UCD Package format V2 not working properly)

When running UCD packaging v1 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is taken care of properly, gets copied to zOS the correct way and can be used as is. When running UCD packaging v2 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is NOT taken...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

Add ability to add custom group names to filtering capability

We are very interested in using WebSphere Automation, however, the problem is we have over 500 WAS servers across 63 distinct WebSphere cells. We must have the ability to filter/group servers by a custom group name to be able to segregate servers ...
6 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Under review

Obtain request user email

We are developing an external approval process to validate deployment requests. If the validation fails, we want to send an email notification to the requesting user, as deployments can be scheduled. However, we discovered that the user's email is...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing these fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updating to each application server on that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signi...
11 months ago in WebSphere Automation 3 Not under consideration

SAML Single Sign On or Single Logout to support HTTP-Redirect Binding

Liberty seems to only support HTTP-POST binding for SAML Login and Logout based on our investigation <md:SingleLogoutService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://......." />We have configured our applica...
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

add the button Backout counter to the mq web console 9.2 very useful for the client to unlock the queue

is it possible to add the button Backout counter to the mq web console 9.2 like this: Increase BO counter +/-5 and Decrease BO counter+/-5? our client is asking for it. for now, the only option is to change the default value. but in case of blocke...
over 2 years ago in Heritage / Application Developer 2 Not under consideration

Userid for WLM Classification

Customer states a need to capture by Userid, instead of API. Currently The existing attributes are for host, method, port, resource and transactionClass only. No userid capability.
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration