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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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Connect in/out component should support additional network interfaces

Pattern development currently supports firewall configuration through the CONNECT IN/OUT component. This component does not support multiple network interfaces.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

NGINX Ingress Controller Support for RTAS in AKS

RTAS support for AKS is currently provided with Emissary Ingress which required additional CRDs to be installed at the cluster level. Security team advising to use NGINX Ingress controller as a standard since the hardening for AKS can be done as w...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Hub 2 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...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Utility to update ALBD service credentials

For previous versions of ClearCase (<9.x) there was a utility provided by IBM to update the ALBD credentials while storing the password in an encrypted format (CCALBDPW.exe). That utility does not work starting with ClearCase 9.x. Need an equiv...
over 6 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Not under consideration

Switch option to finish searching all repositories in the federated repositories right after user is found.

In customer's WAS 8.5.5.x system, many base entries for each CN entries in customer's LDAP are registered to the federated repositories. In current design, search results for user are returned after all repositories are searched. Federated reposit...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 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 4 years ago in Heritage 1 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 4 years ago in Heritage 1 Not under consideration

Ability to export events of WebSphere Automation to ELK

Customer requests audit trail at the server level and the events to be sent to ELK; events such as: 1. When a CVE is added to the database 2. When a particular server is scanned and first flagged with the CVE (e.g. due to a newly announced CVE or ...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add support for unsupported objects in Websphere configure - partial apply step

Please add support in Websphere configuration - partial apply step for applying configuration for following objects: Resource Environment Provider (REP), Resource Environment Entries (REE), Resource Adapters, J2C connection factories and shared li...
about 8 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

WebSphere OIDC JWT Token - Allow reading of Array Strings

Our dev ops platform is PCF (Pivitol Cloud Foundry) using its built in User Account and Authentication Service (UAA) - https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/api/uaa/version/76.24.0/index.html#overview. The JWT token that is generated by this service inser...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration