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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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Clustered EJB Timer service

The integrated EJB Timer service has to be configured for each application server. While providing support to client I discovered that the EJB Timer Service is configured for APPServer1 and APPServer2 separately by going inside path "Servers > ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Functionality already exists

Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Introduce timeout for process steps

- We recently saw a case where a deployment process was stuck at one particular step for 3+ hours due to some issues. - It's a good idea to introduce a new step property "timeout" that can kill the step that is stuck after the mentioned timeout pe...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

Allow environment variables in the plugin-cfg.xml file

Our customer is evaluating WebSphere Liberty 18.0.0.3 using the latest version v9.0.0.0 IHS + PLUGIN tar instalation package to develop an architecture for running WebSphere Liberty in a containerized environment. When we run the "pluginUtility ge...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Reporting and cleanup of agents

We name nearly all agents for the hostname. We have hosts get retired but the agent still shows in the console as offline. We currently have inexact and processes to check ServiceNow to see if it's retired, ,and then come back to see for those tha...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

OIDC integration with the the IBM IHS HTTP Server

I know that the apache web server has and oidc module and the IBM's HTTP Server is built on it. But IBM doesn't support the use of the oidc module. It would be great if IBM could support the use of the oidc module in it's HTTP Server. This would a...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

UCV executor plugin to return valid http status code

This plugin returns 200 every single time, even if the deployment can't be started or if there's something wrong with the json data that gets passed. The plugin is supposed to respond with an error if the incorrect data gets passed (e.g. pipeline ...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3 Under review

Inquiry on Active Deployments on Agent at Specific Timestamp Checking Parallel Deployments/ Agent to be used

This is our requirement: Can we run/get a report for UCD usage with details for the past 12 months: - **Per day**: Peak number of simultaneous sessions run by all agents in parallel. - **Per day**: Peak number of agents running simultaneous sessio...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

OpenTelemetry integration for the IHS WebSphere plugin

OTEL is the new standard for telemetry data like traces, logs, metrics and events to be shipped to any external systems for enhanced visibility. Datadog currently does not have an integration for IHS plugin, hence the idea here is if IBM can build...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Rest API to add files to a version

There is currently no rest api equivalent for the cli 'addVersionFiles'.
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Future consideration