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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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Provide API for IBM J9 downloads

Downloads for IBM J9 are behind a log-in and there does not seem to be an API to get them. E.g. for the release 8.0.7.6, we need to download archives for these platforms: AIX 64-bit, pSeries 8.0.7.6-JavaSE-SDK-aix-ppc64-archive Linux 64-bit, pSeri...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Allow custom grouping for custom metrics. currently grouped by result only

When metrics are published , we would like to be able to display published metrics as individual bars per Application. However the data is grouped by result only with no option to group by application. Desired behavior would be similar to Build Co...
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 3 Not under consideration

Oracle SQL*Plus plugin: Execute all scripts in the same transaction

Whenever executing the Oracle SQL plugin with a lot of scripts, we notice that it's creating a new session for every single script execution. This is limiting in terms of performance, but it only inhibits certain use cases.
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 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 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

We would like to know the file paths

Please help us find the file path of the following: Jettison 1.5.4 Json-smart 2.4.9 Jetty to 9.4.51 Groovy 3.0.17+ to support Java 21 Tomcat to 8.5.89 and 9.0.75 SnakeYAML to 2.0 Apache Velocity 1.5 to 2.3 Tomcat to 9.0.70 Apache Commons FileUploa...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Is a defect

The Last update time of map entries used by evictors is lost in a shard replication

The following details have been provided in 08953,442,000 and we have been told to raise a RFE to get the issue fixed. This is a HIGH priority issue to ODM, because it implies a bug in the ODM DSI product and a customer has already fall into it fe...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Planned for future release

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with WAS or IHS

WAS and IHS need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS monitoring

SSL/TLS certificate expiration is a common IT problem. The expiration could be on certificates used directly by WAS or by services WAS is dependent on.
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Enable tomcat.keystore reloading without 'restarting the service'

There is an example on the Web of Java code that can enable the UCD tomcat.keystore be reread periodically without have to restart the master server service. But in addition to enabling that capability, a new keystore password needs to be not only...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Add to the "Set Resources Property" the data type of List of Strings

We have process that must run a step on many different artifacts on a host. At this time we have to write shell code to find all the artifacts on a host. Which then must be filtered with hard coded values to exclude some hits. All this would be ma...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Needs more information