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SOAP request SAML assertion is not functional by default on WAS.

When a SOAP SAML request which contains a full blown SAML assertion in it is sent over as an http post to WAS, it doesn't process the SAML assertion. Out of the box there is a WEB SSO TAI which can process a SAML assertion provided all the SAML as...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

WS-Security policy set bindings don't work with Web SSO global security

State Farm secures all their web resources in their WAR modules, so nothing is left unsecured. We have a JAX-WS web service endpoint. This is also apparently secured by the Web module security. We have WS-Security specific policy sets defined on t...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Support for Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS)

Chrome browser is planning to disable the third party cookies https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/3pcd Our application run as third-party application inside an iframe on an external application and our application Uses SPNGEO authenticat...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

WebSphere OIDC JWT Token - Allow reading of Array Strings

Our dev ops platform is PCF (Pivitol Cloud Foundry) using its built in User Account and Authentication Service (UAA) - https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/api/uaa/version/76.24.0/index.html#overview. The JWT token that is generated by this service inser...
5 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

IBMi HTTP Server IHS support for website creation on IASP

Actual IBM i HTTP Server doesn't support the creation via GUI of a website defined in IASP, you have to create it on SYSBAS and then move it on IASP manually, doing tricky steps. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/706779 Could it be possible t...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Allow SPNEGO Single Sign On solution to work on a scenario that admin agent and its managed base profile

Now, in websphere 9 base edition, admin agent managing its base profile including a set of JVMs. We are required to input ID and password to pass authentication in order to access admin console. So avoid inputting ID and password will be good expe...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

More flexible integration between WAS and Active Directory

For more optimal communication between WAS and Active directory, we'd like to be able to configure the connection based on AD SRV record "sites".This way the communication can be setup based on the closest available AD servers.
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

WAS traditional: Allow setting JMS sessions as unshareable from the application configuration

There's a known issue (limitation) when using connections to databases or messaging providers from for example servlets without using server-managed transactions. It's described here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/common-reasons-why-connection...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Stop and Start the Activation Spec functionality

We are in need feature to stop and start the activation spec. in WAS
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Functionality already exists

OpenJPA and SQL Limits

As per PMR 13287,842,758 Currently running WAS for z/OS 8.5.5.14. One of our development teams complains a misbehaviour of Websphere's AS JPA embedded implementation on setting the lower limit of the number of results in criteria query. They say t...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 5 Not under consideration