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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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Duplicate Dashboards and ValueStreams

More often than not, most of the value streams and dashboards that we create have the same set of charts(for dashboards) and very similar value stream json(for VSM) and having this ability would save a lot of time for developers in adding the same...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 1 Under review

Expose messaging engine metrics to mpMetrics/micrometer

The messaging engine contains a lot of capabilities which can be exposed via mpMetrics. Example: There is a file store configuration associated. The level of space used would be an appropriate metrics and probably the most valuable one. Other metr...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

UCDP BP should support encrypt and decrypt of secure input property values

UCDP blueprint designer does not have the ability to decrypt or encrypt secure properties defined in UCD. Because of this, deployments of components that use secure properties will fail. This ability should be fully supported by UCPD blueprint des...
almost 10 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

merged server.xml

Liberty supports loading configuration from the configDropins/default, configDropins/overrides and the server.xml file. This can result in multiple configuration files, and it can be hard to determine what the server is actually running with.
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

RTCP - Restrict Result Databases for each user

As per our current RTCP version 10.1, any RTCP logged in user is able to see the results from other users as well who published the data to RTCP. This is kind of a security concern and we would like to restrict the data shown to RTCP logged in use...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Option to configure OIDCClient to pass the sessionID in a more secure manner

We have learned from our security team that the session ID for the /oidcclient/redirect/azureclient URL is being passed in the URL using clear text. I had opened a case with WAS support to see how the issue could be mitigated by sending sessionID ...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Add WAS z/OS support up to Db2 z/OS v13 FL50x for the sibDDLGenerator.sh script

The full details and background, etc., can be found in the Support Case TS017121234 The DDL produced by the WAS z/OS sibDDLGenerator.sh script is no longer valid; this manifested itself during our testing with Db2 v12 z/OS at FL504. Furthermore, t...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Additional error handling functionality for unattended test runs

As originally discussed on the forums, it was suggested to submit a RFE. (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=7c067db9-35f8-4936-8d86-c29d9848a9e8) We are looking for a solution to automatically stop/exit the test whe...
over 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 5 Not under consideration

Add support for a Force Refresh on Value Streams view

Currently, there is no way to apply or do a force refresh of any Value Stream Mappings (VSM). A user needs to fake modify the Value Stream JSON file (e.g. description field or a stage name) and wait for VSM to be refreshed, which may not be picked...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 1 Planned for future release

Accessing Websphere admin console hosted inside an Openshit POD

IBM provided docker base image for WebSphere application server. We use it to containerize WebSphere traditional applications and move them into Cloud, such as Openshit, for better scalability. However, the WebSphere admin console is not accessible.
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration