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Add support for standard MIBs for SNMPv3

WAS 9 SNMPv3 capability is used for PMI exposure only, market standard MIBs are not used. We request to add support for standard MIBs to be used with external monitorizing tools, like PRTG
27 days ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

websphere liberty password identification if encoded with custom aes key or default key

Hi Team, From 26.0.0.3 custom aes key implementation is enforced. https://openliberty.io/blog/2025/12/02/25.0.0.12.html#aes256 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=slia-supplying-your-own-aes-256-key-password-encryption Now as earlie...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

OpenTelemetry Tracing support of WOLA

Looking for OTEL to support tracing for WAS to CICS
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Adaptive Connection Pool Throttling based on Latency

In high-load environments, when a backend resource (like a JMS) starts slowing down, the standard behavior of a connection pool is to open more connections to handle the queue, up to the maxPoolSize. This often creates a "death spiral" where the i...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Port the DISPLAY,ADAPTER,REGISTRATIONS and DISPLAY,ADAPTER from WAS on Z to Liberty Z

In WAS we are able to display the WOLA registrations between WAS and CICS. Looking to add the same functionality to Liberty on Z . We have automation around this command in WAS, as we move to Liberty , looking to replicate that process in Liberty.
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Allow to rename WebSphere traditional server-name

The renaming of WAS server-name is not support, the rename in WAS of hostname, Cell and node is supported. A reason that need to rename server name: There are times that there is a mistake in WAS server-name that it was built and a rename of serve...
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Ability for the plug in to leverage the sysplex distributor for the DDVIPA to determine when a systems is up

We currently have a case with IBM open on this and is effecting our production systems. If you reach out to me, i will share the case number. Not wanting to put that in the IDEA When shutting down an LPAR in a plex, and is removed by the TCPIP LEA...
3 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

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3 months ago in Java Runtimes (Semeru, OpenJDK) Not under consideration

Failure reporting enhancement

DevOps Deploy 8.1.2 - In Reporting I can get a report of failed deployments, more information would be very helpful
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Websphere Liberty Password Encoding with AES need to add tags like {aes256} to differentiate passwords from {aes} which is aes128

Websphere Liberty Password Encoding with AES need to add tags like {aes256} to differentiate passwords from {aes} which is aes128 All the users who are using websphere liberty will benficial as its easiest way to differentiate the aes passwords fr...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration