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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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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

Integrate RBAC support directly into Design Room One

Currently in order to have RBAC support and Active Directory integration for Design Room One you need to integrate it with the Keycloak application. That means additional installation and ongoing maintenance overhead to get Design Room One up and ...
over 3 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 2 Not under consideration

RSA support for MacOS 10.15

When will RSA V9.7 support MacOS 10.15?
over 6 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

adding surgeThreshold and SurgeCreationgInterval attributes to connectionManager element for WebSphere Liberty Profile

In WebSphere Libery Profile, we need surgeThreshold and surgeCreationgInterval attributes like WebSphere Traditional. This attributes are clearly defined on KC for WebSphere Traditional.http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.i...
about 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Websphere Application Server: Self Signed Default Websphere certificate missing IP or DNS names in SAN field

The self signed certificates in Websphere application server has default SAN field populated and not the IP or DNS name as required by browsers causing the browsers (Chrome, FireFox etc) to complain that the SAN field is missing.
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under 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

Include re-try and timeout with Activation Spec listener status in the WAS Console

In the WAS Console, when we look at the Activation Spec listener status, instead of just showing 'green' or 'red', it should have functionality where we're able to see the re-tries with the connection the IBM QMGR. Multiple App teams with RBC will...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Please change the icon for Rational Developer for i (RDi)

Please change the icon for Rational Developer for i (RDi). The current one is horrible and looks like a fuzzy dark meaningless spot. When this icon was originally changed about 2 years ago I called support thinking there was a problem with my inst...
about 5 years ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

UrbanCode Deploy to Support Multi-Component Installs In a Specific Order (Where All Components in an Application Share the same Tag) Based on Snapshot Details

UrbanCode Deploy currently supports installing a component with multiple versions in a specific order based on the order that the versions are added to the component in a snapshot. However, UrbanCode Deploy doesn't support installing multiple comp...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration