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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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WSA to download patches to NAS/SAN disk and mount the volume to the managed host during patch deployment

WSA downloads the FixPacks to the "/home/wasadmin/.wsa/fixes" file system. My customer encounters a problem with 8.5.5 FP023. The size of FP is 6GB, and there is not enough space to download it. The customer's AIX admin set a limit to the size of ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 2 Delivered

Transaction peer recovery for WAS Liberty

We need peer recovery for transactions in Liberty ready for the Cloud.
about 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Allow a non-interactive console access to obtain the password silently while uploading the Process as Code files

Context:We are trying to develop an automatic lifecycle for our deployment processes in UrbanCode Deploy 7.3.2 Problem: We get the error "IO error: direct console access unavailable" when trying to update the processes in UCD from a Jenkins pipeli...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6 Delivered

Ability to interact with PIV Certificate when using Browser

Web applications that require the ability to interact with (e.g. use for login) SSL certificates are unable to be tested. RFT is unable to identify and interact with the "Select a certificate" modal that comes up when a web application makes use o...
about 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 3 Delivered

Support WebSphere Liberty Operator on OpenShift on Power

Supporting WebSphere Liberty operator on Power to allow for ease of deployment, update, and configuration of Liberty for those moving to OpenShift on Power. Deploying standalone images can be quite difficult, and the Open Liberty Operator has some...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Automation of WAS Fixpack and IF

There are multiple security vulnerabilities affecting WebSphere Application Servers. It is almost every month we are applying interim fix or a fixpack. We are using Installation Manager to apply the fix. Please develop the Installation Manager or ...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Automation 2 Delivered

Allow custom location for WAS backups

At the moment backups are stored in ~/.wsa/backups . This is not a safe default - if the directory for the home user is on a small disk, there is risk that the disk will fill up or the backup would fail. The backup location should be customizeable...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Delivered

Agent unavailable status for online agents to allow for controlled agent shut down

At the moment we need to check if an agent is licenced before stopping it to ensure there are no active deployments, often having to remove agents from agent pools to ensure no further deployments start. This idea is to be able to "wind down" an a...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 9 Delivered

Support various login configurations at once in WebSphere Liberty Profile

UIs provided by Java EE applications running in WebSphere Liberty Profile should establish the current user security context based on a MP-JWT provided by security proxy that has already authenticated the user and loaded his user groups from some ...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Velocity plugin for Jenkins to support multiple instances of UCV

Currently, the UCV plugin for Jenkins only supports integration with one single UCV instance. We'd like an option to add extra UCV instances as well.
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3 Delivered