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WebSphere traditional

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Support of Servlet API 3.1 on WebSphere 8.5.5

SSA has a large traditional WAS footprint (on Z and distributed systems) and an upgrade is going to take a large effort .The ask is for a fixpack to support Struts 6 with support for Servlet 3.1 .There may be other customers also that may be impac...
9 months ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Delivered

We want IHS to be configured in a manner so that if client provide RSA certificate less than 2048 bit then the request should be rejected by IBM HttpServer

This is useful in making system less vulnerable. All client using IBM HttpServer would be benefitted form this. IBM HtpServer should work in a manner so that if client provide RSA certificate less than 2048 bit then the request should be rejected ...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered

Multi factor authentication for WebSphere admin console

We would like to have MFA for WebSphere admin console. We were trying to implement something like Yubikey for WAS Admin console authentication. MFA is NYSDFS requirement and NIST standard and we need to enable this as per the requirements.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered

Allow shell identity to be used for authentication of addnode.sh and syncnode.sh on z/OS

We have an automated scripts that runs for syncnode.sh and addnode.sh. The WAS Admin password is not known and is rotated. See open case TS007505717
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered

Limit the number of retries after a 503 on PlugIn

Plugin re-tries on 503 error code is equal to the number of jvms in a cluster. We have huge cluster with more than 50 jvms. We want to limit the number of re-tries which plugin attempts on 503. Need a setting to define the limit on the number of r...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered

TLS 1.3 support with TLS 1.2 fallback

We need in tWAS 8.5.5 support for TLS 1.3 as well as TLS 1.2 for a fallback option.
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 12 Delivered

Porvide support for JWE in OpenId connect websphere interceptor

Need to add properties to support JWE to allow us to decrypt a JWE token https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/559779
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered

Allow syncNode.sh to work with IBM's MFA for z/OS

We are using IBM's MFA for z/OS solution to MFA enable our systems administrators across a wide range of interfaces including TSO, CICS, DB2, IMS, Netview, Omegamon​, and zWAS. Since we are using a compound in-band solution where the password and ...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Delivered

IFIX applied in JOBLOG

When we have IFIXES installed onto our WebSphere V8.5 and V9.0.5 application servers the IFIXES don't display in the JOBLOG.Just the version the fix pack level are generated.It would be a great help to have the IFIX levels displayed in the JOBLOG ...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered

Change timestamp format to be independent of the locale (SystemOut.log)

We'd like the ability to change the format to be independent of the locale (SystemOut.log) in WebSphere Application Server.
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered