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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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Make compression feature extensible

Currently, Liberty only supports gzip and deflate, as already stated in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LIBERTY-I-144 However, it is impossible for users to add new compressions globally, as the classes are not extensible at all. I think the relevant ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Allow JNDI as a mpConfig configuration source to allow encryption of secrets

Currently, it is not clear whether any configuration source can benefit from the liberty encryption.If this was possible, the secrets could be stored on disk in an encrypted way. I know JNDI properties can be encrypted, so let's add JNDI to the ex...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Rational Synergy 7.2.2 & Change 5.3.2 - Compatibility with RHEL8

We will use Rational Synergy 7.2.2 and Rational Change 5.3.2 on RHEL7 but some of our clients absolutely wants to use RHEL8 for security reason.Currently, Synergy 7.2.2 is not certified compliant with RHEL8, could you add this compliance certifica...
over 6 years ago in Heritage 3 Not under consideration

IBMi HTTP Server IHS support for website creation on IASP

Actual IBM i HTTP Server doesn't support the creation via GUI of a website defined in IASP, you have to create it on SYSBAS and then move it on IASP manually, doing tricky steps. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/706779 Could it be possible t...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

import Applications and Releases from RTC

Release and Applicaitons will feed from changes which is came from RTC. import Applications to Releases from changes(rtc WI filed agains)
about 11 years ago in Heritage / Release 3 Not under consideration

Migration of server database to a different database system

Some years ago a customer began adopting UrbanCode Deploy using DB2 as database system, but he doesn't have skills on DB2.Now he wants to enlarge his adoption upgrading UrbanCode Deploy to an HA configuration, he already has Oracle RAC and also he...
over 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Enhance liberty to recover from java.io.IOException: EDC5122I Input/output error. (errno2=0x12AA044F)

TCP socket the Liberty is listening on becomes unusable. This causes connection attempts to the Liberty server to fail. This can happen when the z/OS system is running in a CINET environment (to be able run multiple TCPIP stacks) versus an INET en...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect: Background : As part of a firm migration project for one of our bank’s cards, we were required to migrate our z/OS requester API’s to a new external vendo...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

native Openshift ci/cd/pipelines integrated into UCV like Jenkins, UCD

Integrate OpenShift similar to Jenkins, UCD and other tools. CI/CD/Pipeline data should be visible in the pipelines and linked to VSM view (f.e. git commits-OCP builds-OCP deployments). See links in additional details.
almost 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 1 Future consideration

RSARTE: Show state machine changes in inheritance explorer

At the moment the inheritance explorer shows changes in operations, attributes and structure diagrams. Having it also show changes in the state machine (like the Project Explorer presents them) helps in analyzing what changes have been made in der...
over 6 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Real Time Edition 0 Future consideration