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Add support for standard MIBs for SNMPv3

WAS 9 SNMPv3 capability is used for PMI exposure only, market standard MIBs are not used. We request to add support for standard MIBs to be used with external monitorizing tools, like PRTG
3 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Port the DISPLAY,ADAPTER,REGISTRATIONS and DISPLAY,ADAPTER from WAS on Z to Liberty Z

In WAS we are able to display the WOLA registrations between WAS and CICS. Looking to add the same functionality to Liberty on Z . We have automation around this command in WAS, as we move to Liberty , looking to replicate that process in Liberty.
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Implementing a search field within Security and Server Management would significantly enhance navigation and streamline operations.

We have recently integrated all our WebSphere environments into the WebSphere Automation platform, which has been a significant step forward in our infrastructure management. However, we are encountering challenges in navigating through the extens...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Not under consideration

Provide the function to schedule patch installation jobs

This is part 3 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 and is built on top of WASINTOPS-I-109. The customer would like to use the GUI of WSA to select one or more servers, display the list of unresolved vulnerabilities, cho...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation Not under consideration

Urbancode agent relays java management via UI

As we can see there is a java management feature starting from v7.2.3 via UrbanCode UI for agents.The same way it will be good to have a feature where we can manage the java for agent relays as well. This will help us to upgrade the java of relays...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Resurrect the IBM UrbanCode Deploy and Release Mobile App

In our environment, we had used the IBM UrbanCode Release and Deploy App and it was well received. Since it was retired, I receive contact feedback about how much of a "pain" it is for approvers to have to either log into UrbanCode Deploy to execu...
about 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Enhance filtering in the dashboard

On the WSA dashboard, 'Servers' tab, the filter is by cell name, CVE, and WAS version only, my customer prefers to have filtered by server name as well.On the 'Notification configuration', there is no filter to choose under what criteria to send n...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation Not under consideration

Upgrade wadamin jyton to Python 3.9.4

We have a requirement to update WAS settings from within the secure wsadmin.sh runtime. The updates require calling out to other servers in our network using REST-ful calls. The GitHub "requests" module meets most needs. But we can not use it beca...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Keep preferences when moving databases to new location when using direct LDAP connection

With direct connection from Rational Change to a corporate LDAP server (Change 5.3.2.2), the possibility to move a database to a new location in the file system while keeping all existing preferences has been removed.In RDS this was possible by ex...
over 5 years ago in Heritage Not under consideration

Keep preferences when renaming user when using direct LDAP connection

With direct connection from Rational Change to a corporate LDAP server (Change 5.3.2.2), the possibility to rename the ID of users while keeping their existing preferences has been removed.In RDS this was possible by a combination of setting the "...
over 5 years ago in Heritage Not under consideration