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Pinned ideas

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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Controlling the display of CQ repositories in ClearQuest login

Currently whatever repositories Looking for a mechanism to restrict the list of repositories displayed during login in CQWeb based on an entry in the CQ Web URL. At the moment all available repositories from the server [Maintenance Tool] are displ...
almost 7 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 3 Future consideration

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

allow post-deploy-post operations in running an application process through a REST command

The rest command used for running an application process currently accepts the parameters post-deploy-put-url and post-deploy-message. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/urbancode-deploy/7.0.5?topic=resource-run-application-process We would like to h...
over 5 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.
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Requesting a Linux/s390x build of the Packaging Utility for Installation Manager

We are interested in setting up local Installation Manager repositories that can be accessed over http/https to provide updates for WebSphere Liberty ND and IBM HTTP server products as described in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/in...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

InstantOn checkpoint.sh supported features validations to make developers life easy when adding to server.xml

InstantOn feature on Openliberty and WebSphere liberty is currently supported from version 23 and above, currently the supported jakarta features, microprofile features are listed per version and there are features which are not supported by insta...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

ClearCase CMI integrations should allow setting tasks in the GUIs

The Change Managment Interface (CMI) based integrations have replaced some of the older integration methods with an arguably less usable integration. Feature shorrtcomings include: 1. In the old base ClearCase/Clearquest integration, the user can ...
almost 3 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Add support for Java 21.

Java 21 is available for more than 1,5 year and developers need to use it.
over 1 year ago in Heritage / Model Architect 0 Under review

Deployment Manager Console Log Format and Customization

We are attempting to add real time monitoring to audit and security logs in our WebSphere environments for WebSphere Application Deployment Manager Console/Integrated Solution Console. The tool that our organization is using can not read/monitor t...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

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