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WebSphere Automation

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To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSphere and Liberty servers. It facilitates the application of security fixes one by one on each server.Some customers have hundre...
11 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Planned for future release

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

This IDEA is part 2 of https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 . it builds on top of IDEA WASINTOPS-I-109 and extend to multiple servers. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect tr...
10 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Increase filtering options in the UI

Hi, In our infrastructure, we have 5 cell names, each name represent all the environments of each one, I mean, the cell name 90app_cell ( for example ) is the same for each environment ( DEV/INTG/QA/PROD), and we maintain the same instance name in...
8 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide the function to schedule patch installation jobs

This is part 3 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 and is built on top of WASINTOPS-I-109. The customer would like to use the GUI of WSA to select one or more servers, display the list of unresolved vulnerabilities, cho...
10 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 4 Not under consideration

Custom filtering or grouping of systems

Provide custom filtering of systems so they can be grouped as business needs or organizational needs dictate.(
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Include embedded products: BAW and ODM

I like the automation feature but it is incomplete without the embedded products. For eg, I cannot use its features on WebSphere that is underneath the BAW or ODM products. So far, I have discovered that even WAS that is installed as part of the p...
9 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enhance filtering in the dashboard

On the WSA dashboard, 'Servers' tab, the filter is by cell name, CVE, and WAS version only, my customer prefers to have filtered by server name as well.On the 'Notification configuration', there is no filter to choose under what criteria to send n...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to export events of WebSphere Automation to ELK

Customer requests audit trail at the server level and the events to be sent to ELK; events such as: 1. When a CVE is added to the database 2. When a particular server is scanned and first flagged with the CVE (e.g. due to a newly announced CVE or ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Filtering in notification

There is no filter to choose under what criteria to send notification to whom. e.g. Different teams are responsible for different cells, so notification can be sent based on cell names and the target team. Or some managers prefer to get notificati...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration