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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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Commercially Support WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Container Apps

WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty are currently not commercially supported on Azure Container Apps. This is due to license validation challenges. This has proven to be a blocker for a number of IBM and Microsoft customers including Legal & Ge...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Planned for future release

In AMA Dev Tools, support multi-module projects with no defined "application root"

This has come up a few times, nost recently with CE in this thread: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C07S61EMFKP/p1747943622417809 In AMA Dev tools, the application root is defined as the ear or war for the project. There must be exactly 1 war...
about 2 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Future consideration

Add support for proxmox hypervisor (KVM)

More teams are moving from VMWare to proxmox virtualization platform. They will use it to manage Windows and Linux VMs running clearcase. Siemens already tested it and it worked well after tuning some parameters.
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 2 Under review

Add ability to add custom group names to filtering capability

We are very interested in using WebSphere Automation, however, the problem is we have over 500 WAS servers across 63 distinct WebSphere cells. We must have the ability to filter/group servers by a custom group name to be able to segregate servers ...
9 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1

Support virtual baseDN mapping im Liberty to improve SSO with tWAS

VMM in tWAS environments are supporting virtual baseDN in VMM which are then via wimconfig.xml mapped to real LDAP baseDNs via the baseEntries configuration like for example <baseEntries name="cn=externalUsers" nameInRepository="cn=users,cn=ext...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support .NET Core 6.0 Desktop Applications and WPF in Rational Functional Tester

Currently RFT supports .NET applications until the .NET 4.6.1 version of Desktop Applications. Such .NET version is obsoleted from Microsoft in mid 2022 and Microsoft encourages to migrate applications on .NET Core 6.x applications. So new Desktop...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 3 Future consideration

Provide CVE tracking also for the IBM HTTP Server incl. web server plugin #emea #dach

Next to tracking the CVEs for tWAS and Liberty incl. JDK, it would also help if WSA could also track the CVEs for IBM HTTP Server incl. web server plugin.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Offline mode for running recipes in AMA Dev Tools

"We want to use WCA in a network restricted environment where the developer workstation with VS Code has access to WCA but not to sources like maven central or GitHub for example. Two of the use cases are "Modernize to Liberty" and "Upgrade Java"....
about 2 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Needs more information

Requirement - Importing deployment metrics from udeploy to Cloudbees CD Currently we are using "Udeploy" as a deployment tool and we want to manage the udeploy's deployment metrics in the cloudbees cd analytics dashboard. We need a single json file with metrics data to import to cloudbees CD.

We are in need of the below mentioned specific metrics from UCD in json format so that we can feed it in cloudbees CD dashboard configuration. This allows us to view the analytics in the cloudbees dashboard. Metrics required : Total number of depl...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Under review

Compare component versions with different HLQ

We create component versions with different HLQ depending on jenkins build number and git branch name. This results on component version comparison always showing differences. Every element is on one version but not in the other. Resulting on two ...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review