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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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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...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Needs more information

MDB requests can be displayed by MODIFY [jobname.]identifier,DISPLAY,WORK command in WAS Liberty

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 WAS for z/OS Traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

WAS for z/OS Liberty reconnects to RRS when RRS is terminated and restarted.

Backgrounds Customer is planning to migrate from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty and is validating whether or not there are some incompatibility, and also there are no problem through the extensive testing. When customer conducted...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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 ...
4 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Not under consideration

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

AMA 5.0 Analysis Report should show help on modernisation

Before AMA 5.0 when going to the Analysis Report would show "Show Results" and another expansion on how to fix the issue. In AMA 5.0 the Analysis Report is blocked unless a key is presented. Even when unlocked the only option is to °Show Results° ...
about 2 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Under review

MISRA C 2025 Compliance for static analysis checks

MISRA C 2025 is now available. A standard out-of-the-box configuration would make it easier to adopt these coding guidelines.https://misra.org.uk/product/misra-c2025/
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded 0 Submitted

Java - Support AES key from ICSF for encryption

We aim for an encryption with an AES key stored in CKDS dataset, hence protected with ICSF. The targeted flow would be as follows: 1. Create an AES key in CKDS2. Create a Java application that can read the key and perform encryption and decryption...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

REST API feature to search documents using watson assistant which is not available yet RAM

We are looking for REST APIs for RAM search that can be invoked via URL. and can be integrated with watson assistant.
about 5 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Display the Keyring in the JOBLOG for Liberty servers running on z/OS

Currently we can't see what Keyring the Liberty 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 Liberty server files.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration