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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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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

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

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

Need a property to fetch manual task approval date and time

When a manual task is approved, the approver name and display name exposed as output properties in the step. These properties can be referenced using: ${p:ManualTask/ApproverDisplayName} and ${p:ManualTask/ApproverName} In addition to approval nam...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2

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

User can generate the token and it should be available in User profile post login in Udeploy

User can generate the token and it should be available in User profile post login in Udeploy. By doing this, user can generate the tokens in udeploy by their own and use it post OKTA SSO enablement and can run REST API calls with using tokens.
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Needs more information

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

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

Enhance JWT consumer to process JWT from a list of trusted issuers.

Enhance JWT consumer to process JWT from a list of trusted issuers.As it is today, the JWT consumer only consume JWT from single issuer.
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future 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