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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 Oracle Enterprise Linux

Due to Red Hat's shutting down public access to their distribution source packages, Oracle and other "compatible" linux distributions can no longer state that their kernel or userspace packages are 100% compatible with the matching Red Hat Enterpr...
about 2 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 2 Not under consideration

Allow IBM HTTP Server behind a proxy/LB that performs SSL offloading to become aware that the original request uses https

In a situation where IHS is behind another proxy/LB that performs SSL offloading, it would be beneficent to implement a behavior similar to WAS, to check a http header defined by the web container custom property 'httpsIndicatorHeader' to know tha...
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Make generated codecompliant with Clang-tidy misc-use-anonymous-namespace checker

When adding new class and setting generation of: initializer, destructor etc model compiler generates it as static. Then when running static analysis with CodeChecker or Clang-Tidy it reports issue as on example below:function 'rtg_ExampleFunction...
2 months ago in DevOps Model & Code / Model RealTime 1

Helm artifactory for Liberty Operator

Most of the OEM software are packaged with helm. By having the helm artifactory, Liberty operator can be deployed in any flavor of kubernetes using helm deployment tool.
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Needs more information

WebSphere OpenID Connect Relying Party - Could you please add client_assertion as an authentication method?

Current Situation: We are using the IBM supplied replying party plugin with Microsoft Entra: Component name: OpenID Connect Relying Party TAI TAI class name: com.ibm.ws.security.oidc.client.RelyingParty Version: 9.0 f5192405.01 This combination al...
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review

Add a feature to allow connection between UCD and a suitable data warehouse to archive and retrieve history table.

Add a feature to allow connection between UCD and a suitable data warehouse to archive and retrieve history table. We don’t want to perform archive outside UCD interface (meaning directly from UCD DB to Solix), as data once moved out – auditors qu...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

REST API to manage the authentication tokens

We have been exploring automation solutions to manage the renewal of UrbanCode authentication tokens via REST APIs. However, we have encountered a limitation as the current REST API offerings do not fully support our requirements. At present, the ...
2 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

Observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log

In the customer's WASv8.5.5.20 system, they have observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log. Referring the WAS code, it just subtract System.currentTimeMillis from the previous System.currentTimeMillis. We were...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Ability to create Snapshot without environment via Jenkins UCD plugin

We want to create a snapshot that only includes the components we are deploying, we don't want to include the components which are already deployed in the environment. Its helpful since now developers has to manually remove the unwanted components...
5 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Under review

Require Ansible playbooks to deploy and manage WAS ND deployments

Client is using CP4WAIOPS Infrastrututure Management to deploy and manage WAS ND. When they used the tooling in the past they had used Chef cookbooks to build and deploy WAS ND systems. Since IBM Purchaed RH, the CloudPak has indicated that Chef i...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration