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WebSphere Application Server Support for HashiCorp Vault usage

Our organization mandates the use of HashiCorp Vault to store and retrieve passwords. For Applications hosted on WebSphere Application Server, there is no direct support to make use of HashiCorp Vault to store/retrieve database password as part of...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

Status of node is "Not synchronized" when TAI OIDC enabled on the admin console

Appears that node synchronization is not synchronizing user credentials when WAS ND is used with OIDC. There is a case (TS016344589) that outlines the detail of the issue and what has been done.
about 1 month ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Require Ansible playbooks to deploy and manage WAS ND deployments

Client is using CP4WAIOPS Infrastrututure Management to deploy and manage WAS ND. When they used the tooling in the past they had used Chef cookbooks to build and deploy WAS ND systems. Since IBM Purchaed RH, the CloudPak has indicated that Chef i...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Add feature to configure Enable/Disable System Dump from admin console

WAS admin console users have the ability to take System dumps and causes issues in production during peak traffic. Requesting a feature added so WAS admins can configure to enable or disable in production environments.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Java 11 support for WAS ND

I'm working for an Insurance Group, currently responsible of the implementation of Guidewire Insurance suite (https://www.guidewire.com/products/insurancesuite), which is a World Class application developed in Java. We'd implemented the Guidewire ...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

We cannot keep all the files of the multiple fixpack upgrades as it requires a lot of disk space and keeps growing. It is not feasible to keep on increasing the size of disk space.

It will allow users to save disk space We cannot keep all the files of the multiple fixpack upgrades as it requires a lot of disk space and keeps growing. It is not feasible to keep on increasing the size of disk space. So we need to know the safe...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Java 11 support for Websphere Traditional

When Guidewire had made the decision to upgrade from Java 8 to Java 11, The client of course looked at application server support for Java 11. What the client confirmed with IBM was that WebSphere Traditional would not be supporting Java 11. Given...
12 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under 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...
12 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

OpenTelemetry integration for the IHS WebSphere plugin

OTEL is the new standard for telemetry data like traces, logs, metrics and events to be shipped to any external systems for enhanced visibility. Datadog currently does not have an integration for IHS plugin, hence the idea here is if IBM can build...
8 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Invalidate LtpaToken post-logout

We believe this is actually yet another instance of a request this customer has made multiple times through various channels. (Maybe other customers too, but we know of this one for sure). The issue customer raises is that "logout" does not actual...
about 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration