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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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Support Outbound SSL Filters for wmqJmsClient

In WebSphere Liberty Profile the transportSecurity-Feature provides the possibility to use different key-/truststores for different connections (filters). This works fine for http-protocol, but does not work for wmqJmsClient. For wmqJmsClient alwa...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

API call that returns results of permissions granted to a role/team

This idea is useful to anyone looking to find out what permissions are associated with a role, specially auditors. They need to make sure there is separation of duties between Deploy Engineer and Design Engineer Roles. This is in reference to this...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Allow certificate authentication in Rational Asset Manager

Please allow smart card authentication, aka certificate authentication, into the RAM application. I have been able to successfully accomplish this with both RTC and JTS applications running on WebSphere, but RAM will not allow users into the appli...
over 9 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Disabling the ability to install components with the option 'Only changed versions'

It is necessary to optimize the process and realize the possibility of adding an option that disables the ability to install components with the option 'Only changed versions'.
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

ExecStop line should be added into RTCP service script for Linux platform

In RTCP service definition script /opt/IBM/DevOpsTestControlPanel/bin/controlpanel.service, currently in version 11.0.1, it has below content without the ExecStop line: [Unit] Description=DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel Service After=netw...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 1 Future consideration

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.
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Not under consideration

Get file size for a file object

Users cannot get the file size before copying an object to filesystem. This can be a problem especially for files with big sizes.
almost 8 years ago in Heritage 6 Not under consideration

The REST API commands documentation should accurately list all configuration properties.

The REST API commands documentation should list accurately list all configuration properties. If its not documented accurate (some) people will assume that's all you get.I would expect that people look at the API docs to works out how to do stuff ...
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Is a defect

Synergy Integration support of recent Eclipse versions (64bit)

Hello Synergy development, our developers always tend to use the latest Version of Eclipse and they have to use a 64bit Version. Please provide a Synergy Integration for a recent Eclipse 64bit Version (for example 2019-12 or newer). We noticed an ...
almost 6 years ago in Heritage 4 Not under consideration