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Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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PMI hung thread reporting

We would like to use a health policy that reacts to a condition of n hung threads. It's possible to create a custom policy, however its behaviour is obscure. This is due to the way hung threads are reported internally in WAS. PMI stats are used to...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

IBM RTCP portal Scheduling tab issue

Grant access to User at RTCP Domain Level. (Domain Administrator / User / API User)2. Schedule a Job on RTCP Server via RIT.3. Logged on RTCP Server, expected to see only the scheduled job by him self, but seeing multiple jobs of other domain alon...
almost 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Virtualization Server 2 Not under consideration

Using RFT 3270 scripts with Jenkins

We are unable to start RFT playback triggered from a Jenkins server, when Jenkins is running as a Windows service on the Jenkins node. However this works fine when Jenkins node is connected running a JNLP file in a browser or via CLI.
about 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

Support for System i

WSA currently does not support IBM i, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ws-automation?topic=known-issues-limitations#ts-r-known__fixzosiseries. But my customer runs WAS ND on different platforms including Linux, Windows and System i and is interest...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration

Java HealthCenter fails to start in Liberty via Java Attach API

The issue is that WAS/Liberty uses the OSGi framework, which registers as the InitialContextFactoryBuilder for the NamingManager if the jndi-1.0 feature is in use. This then prevents any code that does not have a BundleContext from registering a n...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

New Feature "Asset Type" to be added to the downloaded report.

If I use the “Activity Audit” then select “Asset downloaded” I get the report attached. However, this report do not include all necessary information. We will need at least to add the “Asset Type” on this report to be functional for our purposes, ...
about 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Planned for future release

64 bit JRE for Rational Change

In a Change environment with 32 bit JRE, heap space is limited to 2 GB. In a Change instance with > 100 users online and frequent exchange with other interfaces, this memory does not suffice. It should be possible to use 64 bit JRE in Change, e...
about 4 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration

Improvement to treat snippets for WebSphere migration with urbancode deploy

For client requeriments, we need to migrate JMSProvider with urbancode deploy using WebSphere-snippets-migrations, and this kind of snippets don't appear in the supported list: https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/docs/applying-partial-configuratio...
about 6 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

RSARTE:Documentation Generation

It would be nice to generate a document file out of the RSARTE Model, from the UML elements. So the information of the function is structured to the related to the functionality. As an output a state diagram and a related textual description could...
about 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Future consideration

Support for the Fortran programming language in Urban Code Deploy is needed.

The current GA release of UCD does not support the Fortran programming language. This is a requirement for usage of UCD in our Enterprise environment.
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Not under consideration