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Pinned ideas

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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OpenJPA and SQL Limits

As per PMR 13287,842,758 Currently running WAS for z/OS 8.5.5.14. One of our development teams complains a misbehaviour of Websphere's AS JPA embedded implementation on setting the lower limit of the number of results in criteria query. They say t...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 5 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...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Allow customizations on the Admin Center pages

For Liberty allowing the addition of some text on the screens would allow to differentiate the Admin Centers so makes are not made. This would be similar to tWAS changing the console identity.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Create a command to clear JWK Cache/Publickeys

We are experiencing an issue with zOS Connect/Liberty where the JSON Web Keys (JWKs) cached from a specific jwkEndpointUrl are not being refreshed unless there is a server recycle. This issue arises because our JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) do not use a ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

RSA-RTE: Target RTS: Missing common types to be send over protocols

The TargetRTS only supports the CppPrimitiveDatatypes to be send over protocols without type descriptor (like int, long, float). For Modern C++ application it would be required to also support more modern types like uint64_t,std::string etc.
over 7 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration

Internet explorer version 11 support for Rational asset manager 7.5.2

Rational Asset Manager doesn't Support internet explorer version 11
over 12 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 2 Planned for future release

Add warning if entering a composite state without an entry point when initial transition inside exists

Please introduce a warning if entering a composite state without an entry point when there is an initial transition inside. The current RSARTE implementation of the history feature is not UML 2.x conform, but understood by experienced RSARTE users.
over 7 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration

Liberty JSR-352: Provide the ability to submit batch jobs under an alternate userid

In the JSR 352 jmsActivationSpec, possibly under the under the messageSelector, allow for the specification of an alternate predetermined userid underwhich the batch application should run under within the executor.
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Perl upgrade to support TLS v 1.2

Customer ITZ Bund is asking for Perl upgrade to support TLS v 1.2, This is really urgent because of fulfillment their security reasons.
over 7 years ago in Heritage 5 Not under consideration

WASPreUpgrade + WASPostUpgrade take days to run when processing large files

WASPreUpgrade and WASPostUpgrade allows a migration between two WAS versions, e.g. 8.0 to 9.0 or 8.5 to 9.0. The WASPreUpgrade process effectively exports the data from the original profile. The WASPostUpgrade effectively imports the data from the...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Not under consideration