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Java SPI to determine if a server running in another JVM is running

We have a GUI that display various flavors of application servers installed on our system. The includes traditional websphere, standalone liberty servers, integrated servers (based on liberty). There could be dozens on the system. My focus is on L...
6 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Support custom tablespaces for the setupIdMgrDBTables command

Hello IBM,this idea is based on HCL DX technote https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0132913 . Currently IBM provides the setupIdMgrDBTables command to create a database related VMM DB as described at URL: https...
21 days ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 in IBM HTTP Server 9.0

The HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocols support improves performance in the servers and the applications, increases security and user experience as well. There protocols offer better deal with multiple simultaneous connections using lower latency and enha...
25 days ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

OAS3 feature environment should allow any single API Specification to be retrieved to the client upon request rather than a merged document

When running z/OS Connect under the OAS2 feature in a z/OS Server with multiple APIs deployed, you can issue a request to z/OS Connect to retrieve the swagger specification from the server for the specific API you request. However under the z/OS C...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

WAS for z/OS Liberty reconnects to RRS when RRS is terminated and restarted.

Backgrounds Customer is planning to migrate from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty and is validating whether or not there are some incompatibility, and also there are no problem through the extensive testing. When customer conducted...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

password decoding funcationality via command line instead of application

no need to install the application explicitly to decode the password and helpful during critical situations when in need to validating passwords. SImilar to traditional websphere even if we have funcationality to decode the password it would be he...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

WebSphere Application Server Support for HashiCorp Vault Usage

Please note this is the same as previous RFE 149411 Our Cyber team’s latest compliance requirement mandates that datasource passwords are rotated every 180 days. To meet this, we’re exploring HashiCorp Vault to manage and rotate JDBC datasource cr...
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Allow Snapshot Creation from Actual Current Inventory During Active Deployment Execution

Currently, when a snapshot is created during an Application Process using APIs such as: /cli/snapshot/createSnapshotOfEnvironment the generated snapshot reflects the deployment's target inventory ("Versions to Deploy") rather than the actual versi...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Automated deploy with snap integration and rollback feature.

We want to offer our customers to deploy to production environments in a scheduled way, with access control and automatic change management. As it is going through change management approval in snap/service now in our case it is allowed for develo...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Continuing where left off after a crash or broken out of scan

Large environments may have tens or hundreds of applications, which may take hours or days to scan. If a crash or for some reason the process of scanning was interrupted it would be good to continue where the scan left off. This way the past work ...
3 months ago in App Runtime Tooling Not under consideration