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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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Role configuration Server Configuration Manage Security should be more granular

At the moment the entitlement Serveucd-corerity has far too much access. In our team we need new starters to be able to view role configurations, team configurations as part of their training but in general I would expect separate entitlements for...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Not under consideration

IBM UrbanCode - Java Distribution Management for AIX Java

Administer and possibility to upload and manage java package on Urbancode to AIX environments. Our solution have capabilities to manage java packages on Linux and Windows. Way to remotely upgrade agent on AIX from java8 to java11. Currently: It's ...
7 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5

Add zstd http channel output compression

Zstd is currently the best compression available: zstd is supported for a year now in all major browsers zstd uses less CPU It achieves better or on-par compression than brotli and gzip It uses way less real time to achieve better compression Hint...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Add branch control capabilities to ClearTeam Explorer Version Tree.

On UNIX/Linux, the native Motif based Version Tree browser had the capabilities to create/remove branch types, as well as, the ability to attach and remove branch instances. Base ClearCase users found this to be useful where they wanted to create ...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 1 Under review

SSL Handshake should not fail if CRLDP present in certificate is not reachable

We have observed one behavior in WAS traditional after enabling CRL. When any certificate presented to WAS for authentication and having CRLDP which is not reachable then SSL HANDSHAKE failed with below exception.Caused by: javax.naming.Communicat...
2 months ago in Java Runtimes (Semeru, OpenJDK) 0 Under review

SSL Handshake should not fail if CRLDP present in certificate is not reachable

We have observed one behavior in WAS after enabling CRL . When any certificate presented to WAS for authentication and having CRLDP which is not reachable then SSL HANDSHAKE failed with below exception.Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationExceptio...
2 months ago in Java Runtimes (Semeru, OpenJDK) 0 Under review

support  syncToOSThread for J2C connections for CICS on Websphere Liberty for Z/OS

This idea is to get it on product roadmap after discussion with PM .Previous submitted idea : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TWAS-I-255 Feature Summary Social Security Administration (SSA )uses tWas 8.5 on Z/os and is migrating to Liberty with Identi...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Planned for future release

REST API support for "Forget Agent Certificate" in UCD

There is an existing API in the UCD UI that offers the ‘Forget Agent Certificate’ option for agents. We want this API to be part of the list of supported APIs so that we can utilize it and raise a product case if any issues arise. This feature is ...
12 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Including Installation Manager updates

When patching WebSphere environments with Installation Manager there is an option to check for IM updates, there doesn't appear to be an option for that in WSA. It would be beneficial to have the option to update the Installation Manager software ...
10 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

CVEs page also displaying associated PH

The PH fix or fixpack information isn't displayed until a person clicks on a particular CVE from the CVEs page, then selects a server to fix, clicks on "Prepare Fixes", select either Fix or Fixpack and then it is displayed what will be installed. ...
10 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration