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Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Provide property to allow skipping of group membership lookup during login

We see a 20-120 second delay during login to our BAW (Business Automation Workflow) application which uses WebSphere 8.5.5.xTrace indicates the time is consumed before ever reaching the application, by WebSphere security code doing full traversal ...
about 4 hours ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Liberty z/OS - identity propagation for ctg - Case sensitivity issue

I would like to request to give Liberty z/OS a new property to upper case user IDs. WebSphere traditional sends the user IDs always in upper letters and while migrating the applications to Liberty z/OS, we are facing problems when the user log in ...
about 5 hours ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Duplicate Dashboards and ValueStreams

More often than not, most of the value streams and dashboards that we create have the same set of charts(for dashboards) and very similar value stream json(for VSM) and having this ability would save a lot of time for developers in adding the same...
about 3 hours ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 0 Submitted

Implementing WSSubject.getRootLoginException() in Liberty

We are migrating an existing JEE application from WebSphere Traditional to Liberty, and the current application has a custom user registry module. In WebSphere Traditional, we can call WSSubject.getRootLoginException() to get the root cause of log...
4 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Secure property for certificate privsate key password

Certficate private key password (tomcat) currently has to store in plain text in either the server.xml file or the installed.properties file. This should be able to encrypted in the secure-installed.properties files. Please see case TS016995445 fo...
3 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Submitted

Version of imported component

We are working in a UCD test environment where we mainly work and improve one component with its processes. When we are done for the sprint we export this component and store it in git. The we import this component in prod, there it would be nice ...
12 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Submitted

Disable password decryption using wsadmin.sh command

Encrypted Admin password saved in soap.client.props file can be easily decrypted using below wsadmin commands. This has been flagged as a security concern by Citi Security team. We are requesting to disable this feature so that decrypting WebSpher...
21 days ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Add ability to add custom group names to filtering capability

We are very interested in using WebSphere Automation, however, the problem is we have over 500 WAS servers across 63 distinct WebSphere cells. We must have the ability to filter/group servers by a custom group name to be able to segregate servers ...
13 days ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Submitted

Critcal need for passticket or IDT connection to Db2 for z/OS using persitent timer with zLiberty

Currently, the persistent timer in zLiberty only supports a password connection to Db2 for z/OS. This is very problematic for customers as it requires an outage for zLiberty whenever you need to change the persistent timer ID's password. We have a...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Add WAS z/OS support up to Db2 z/OS v13 FL50x for the sibDDLGenerator.sh script

The full details and background, etc., can be found in the Support Case TS017121234 The DDL produced by the WAS z/OS sibDDLGenerator.sh script is no longer valid; this manifested itself during our testing with Db2 v12 z/OS at FL504. Furthermore, t...
22 days ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted