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To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for one WebSphere Application Server

The IDEA is part 1 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107; it limits the change scope to one server. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSph...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to install Quarterly Fixpacks to the menu choices in the WebSphere Automation tool.

90% of our application maintenance activities are updating WebSphere products via Fixpack upgrade. We do not install fixes unless there is the rare emergency. So the product does not provide enough bandwidth to be considered as a viable new produc...
3 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration

WSA to download patches to NAS/SAN disk and mount the volume to the managed host during patch deployment

WSA downloads the FixPacks to the "/home/wasadmin/.wsa/fixes" file system. My customer encounters a problem with 8.5.5 FP023. The size of FP is 6GB, and there is not enough space to download it. The customer's AIX admin set a limit to the size of ...
2 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 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...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide CVE tracking also for the IBM HTTP Server incl. web server plugin #emea #dach

Next to tracking the CVEs for tWAS and Liberty incl. JDK, it would also help if WSA could also track the CVEs for IBM HTTP Server incl. web server plugin.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

IDEA En-mass Group Execution of a CVE ifix – Priority 2

We concur’s with the recommendation on the IDEA to potentially do a singular remediation against many target servers; that is to do an enmass group execution of a CVE ifix.
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

IDEA Fixpack Augmentation – Priority 1 The recommendation is to augment the remediation artifact to include the entire history of the available fixpacks that are applicable to a vulnerability which is not done today. The current view on the glass reflects IBM’s design decision taken from a security standpoint, that WSA will promote the latest fixpack as a best practice and will most likely remain as the default choice. Kaiser can work with the API approach to install fixpacks that are not at the latest level via API customization but it would be nice to have it in the UI visibility.

As an example of why this approach would be useful, consider Kaiser’s current approach offers developers the choice of n-1, n-2, and current fixpack version. A view on the glass that will show if eight of ten CVE’s are fixed in one fixpack, that K...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

IDEA #2 - PRIORITY #2 - Enhance WSA to enable en masse remediation selection and application. Currently, WebSphere Automation provides the apply for a user to select a single vulnerability.

Upon selection of a single vulnerability, a user can select only a single registered WebSphere instance for remediation application. Unfortunately, this behavior is serial and singular that does not conform to scaling needs for a security operatio...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration