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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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password decoding funcationality via command line instead of application

no need to install the application explicitly to decode the password and helpful during critical situations when in need to validating passwords. SImilar to traditional websphere even if we have funcationality to decode the password it would be he...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Enabling to specify wild card for hardCopyMessage and/or wtoMessage elements in zosLogging property

Backgrounds The customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between the two products. We understand that WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS L...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Manage Security flag should be separated in low level permissions

Hi everyone, This request is related to product IBM Devops Deploy specifically in the Role configuration > Server configuration > Manage Security. We have noticed that only users with this flag active are able to manage the team assignment o...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 13 Under review

Masking specific field values directly at the test level in DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (DTIA)

Currently, DTIA does not support masking the field values directly at the test level. It does support data masking method at both at schema and non-schema levels which can be applied only when you attempt recording traffic. Ie; Currently DTIA supp...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Workbench 1 Future consideration

Continuing where left off after a crash or broken out of scan

Large environments may have tens or hundreds of applications, which may take hours or days to scan. If a crash or for some reason the process of scanning was interrupted it would be good to continue where the scan left off. This way the past work ...
3 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Not under consideration

Graceful pause of CICS liberty port to prevent transaction loss

When a CICS liberty port was paused, we found that some API transactions are abended. We understand that when the port was paused, the TCP listener stops accepting NEW connections immediately. The channel destruction happens quickly which means th...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Needs more information

Improve RHEL 8 lifecycle support on Cloud Pak System

We are not in a position to get a RHEL 8.x minor release rolled out at scale within the 2 years of EUS provided by Red Hat (please also refer to the uploaded diagram: IBM CPS – RHEL 8 lifecycle challenge.pdf): - Red Hat provides 2 years of EUS (ex...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Planned for future release

WebSphere Application Server Support for HashiCorp Vault usage

Our organization mandates the use of HashiCorp Vault to store and retrieve passwords. For Applications hosted on WebSphere Application Server, there is no direct support to make use of HashiCorp Vault to store/retrieve database password as part of...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 5 Not under consideration

Update the Technology Report to include Portlets

Today AMA/TA do not show Portlets in the technology report and it gives a false idea of all the technologies being used. Since tWAS still supports the technology it would be good to show that it is not supported in Liberty and not have to find out...
about 2 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 1 Planned for future release

Display the Keyring name in the JOBLOG on z/OS.

Currently we can't see what Keyring the Traditional WebSphere Application servers are using from the JOBLOG in SDSF. This would help us see what Keyrings need to be updated with renewed certificates rather than manually checking the TWAS server fi...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration