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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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z/OS IHS Apache - document error log messages

Most IBM components and products come with messages manuals that provide thorough documentation of messages issued by the product. I haven't found any such doc for the z/OS IHS based on Apache. Doc should provide message text and level, explanatio...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

Enable Options to store old config backups out of WAS installation Directory during restoreConfig.bat

IBM team in Case TS006197127, has requested below To remove old backup configurations as we noticed the issues with that in the past. However we still see you keep old config backups under the profile please remove them from that folder and store ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Maven Resolve modification to handle Maven Snapshots in Nexus

We are using Nexus to store our Maven Snapshot and Release versions and were not planning to also store them in code station. This works well with release versions, but with snapshot versions the udeploy maven plug in doesn't treat the snapshots d...
over 8 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud - manual VPC selection when creating new WAS environment

We're currently using/evaluating the WAS traditional build template on VSI v2.1.0 and have noticed you have to use a unique vpc_name in its build configuration. In an IBM multi cloud heterogeneous environment, it would great if you had the option ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

RSA should provide ability to generate XML Sample from WSDL

Aim: We want to be able to easily create samples for our consumers to view the way they should call our service.Problem: We cannot create samples directly from the WSDL.Current workaround: We generate an XSD file from our WSDL. We've written some ...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer for WebSphere 2 Not under consideration

Complete OSGI modularization of all Liberty Profile Implementation(s)

The complete functionality of the Liberty Profile implementation should be modularized by means of OSGI. Thus, it should be possible that any custom extension to the Liberty Profile server can be implemented and provided as OSGI feature. In partic...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Custom Health Investigations

Custom investigations (events and runbook jobs). Provide a means to tie together "custom events" with "custom actions", analogous to custom health policies in WAS ND Intelligent mgmt. Gives us a fallback answer for everything that is not built in ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Rational Clear Quest support on UBUNTU and CentOS

Customer is expecting the CQ support on UBUNTU and CentOS platfoorm The trend is not to use Redhat as an OS.
almost 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Separation of functionality

We would like the possibility to scale the individual components of eXtremeScale Liberty deploy.
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Not under consideration

Remedy Plugin: Use a Change Request ID in place of Entry ID

Basically, the problem with the plugin is related to the Check Step. 1. The documentation for usage is vague and incomplete. This causes several issues related to the setup. If the values in the command step are not formatted correctly, the workfl...
almost 9 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration