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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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Create documentation for UCD plugins for z/OS

The documentation of the UCD plugins for z/OS is very poor, so we need to create our processes on try-and-error basis. The videos placed on the community are very good but, the plugins should have its own complete documentation, otherwise we are p...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Support token authentication (IDT) when accessing a db when using a connection pool

PCI data security is requiring servers to never expose a password when accessing a db. The industry is moving towards using JWTs (for example, a RACF IDT on z/OS) to meet this requirement. JWT eliminate the need to manage a db password in Liberty ...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Allow JNDI as a mpConfig configuration source to allow encryption of secrets

Currently, it is not clear whether any configuration source can benefit from the liberty encryption.If this was possible, the secrets could be stored on disk in an encrypted way. I know JNDI properties can be encrypted, so let's add JNDI to the ex...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 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 This is an outdated mechanism.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 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would ...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect: Background : As part of a firm migration project for one of our bank’s cards, we were required to migrate our z/OS requester API’s to a new external vendo...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

ClearQuest install should check for existence of dependent libraries and error or warn if they're not present

Our ClearQuest prerequisites mention this requirement, but the ClearQuest install is allowed to complete (without any error or warning), even when these dependent libraries are not present. This yields errors when running the product after the "su...
over 4 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to merge like performance results/reports

This to replace RBF-I-286, which we could not make publicly accessible. User has reached a position with UI Tests in VU Schedule, where they have maxed out their workbench's capacity to handle returning data from agents. The support recommendation...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Hub 0 Future consideration

Support JDBC 4.2 in WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 supports Java SE 8. It should support JDBC 4.2 in accordance with specification of JSE 8 (https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337). However, the latest system requirement of WAS 8.5.5 only states support of JDBC up ...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration