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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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Support for OAuth 2.1 in WebSphere Liberty

Support for OAuth 2.1 in Liberty for CloudPak Foundational Services to adopt. OAuth 2.1 is a more hardened version and it is critical for CPFS to support this for its adopters. CPFS uses Liberty as its OpenID connect provider and its based on OAut...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Provide automated method to generate licensing tags when clients are not using the Liberty operator for deployment.

Most of our Liberty deployments are done using custom container build pipelines and Helm based deployments. In order to track licensing we need to tag these deployments with required meta data so the license reporter will correctly compute. One of...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

RAMv754's Standalone RTC not supported Java 8

We recently upgraded RAM Server to v754 but we are using Standalone RTCv6.0 Server to store RAM Policies. Unfortunately RTCv6.0 is not supporting Java 1.8. That reason we are one stopped one of the Cluster's RAM node which is running on other Serv...
over 7 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Dashboard Customization for Team-Specific Views

We appreciate the introduction of the Enhanced Dashboard in DevOps Deploy v8.1.0 , which provides comprehensive insights into deployment health, agent utilization, and deployment schedules. However, from a user perspective, the current implementat...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Future consideration

Encrypted email for call home

In all customer projects where the PureApplication System is used - the Call-Home functionality is one of the most important features, but we depend on the customers security-officer to send out the eMails and Problems to our support team. Current...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Message (E suffix) Route to z/OS system log

Team, We need our automation to capture the errors which happen during z/OS Connect startup. Current Liberty option enableLogToMVS="true" is unable to route the error messages to z/OS system log if the failure occurs at startup. It would be nice i...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

certifying the WebSphere Liberty operator into the RedHat Catalog

Requesting new ideas to facilitate the certification of the WebSphere Liberty Operator in the Red Hat Catalog. This certification is important as the operator is essential for enabling the Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) on the OpenShi...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Enhanced Security with External Secrets Integration

## Summary Request an IBM Liberty enhancement to let applications (including IBM Dynamic Workload Console running on Liberty) reference database credentials from an external secrets source (e.g., CyberArk/HashiCorp Vault) or secure system store. T...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Update the Technology Report to include Portlets

Today AMA/TA do not show Portlets in the technology report and it gives a false idea of all the technologies being used. Since tWAS still supports the technology it would be good to show that it is not supported in Liberty and not have to find out...
3 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 1 Planned for future release

Update z/OS Logging to support wildcards in message specification e.g. CWKK* or CWKK10%%

For automation we require certain error messages in z/OS Connect (A liberty application) to be routed to the system log. The current specification for hardCopyMessage and wtoMessage as part of the Configuration properties for logging on z/OS see h...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1