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Switch option to finish searching all repositories in the federated repositories right after user is found.

In customer's WAS 8.5.5.x system, many base entries for each CN entries in customer's LDAP are registered to the federated repositories. In current design, search results for user are returned after all repositories are searched. Federated reposit...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Improve error messages

Currently there is an error message that can show up when creating a deployment plan that is 'Could not start plan'. This can be of a variety of reasons. It took too long and it timed out, or the version isn't available in UCD. Rather than a gener...
about 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 0 Future consideration

WebSphere OpenID Connect Relying Party - Could you please add client_assertion as an authentication method?

Current Situation: We are using the IBM supplied replying party plugin with Microsoft Entra: Component name: OpenID Connect Relying Party TAITAI class name: com.ibm.ws.security.oidc.client.RelyingPartyVersion: 9.0 f5192405.01 This combination allo...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

integrate IBM Velocity approval gates with an outside source through a REST API

At our last IBM UCD/Velocity lab advocate meeting, we discovered that there is no way to integrate IBM’s approval gates with an outside source through a REST API (or any other means it sounds like) so that we can plug in the Approval Gateway Tool ...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 2 Under review

Fix Activation Spec status display in Admin Console

The status reported in the Admin Console for Activation Specs is broken - we had a stopped Activation Spec and it showed as "green" (Active). Admin Console should reflect accurate status information to benefit all systems programmers and applicati...
about 4 years 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...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

UCV - Non-cluster admin installation

I would like to be able to install UCV in OpenShift without the need of having cluster-admin role. Ideally providing it via operators coming from the operator hub – only from categories “Red Hat Operators”, “Certified Operators” alternatively “Red...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3 Not under consideration

Create ACME agent to automate renewal of certs for WAS and IHS.

Create ACME agent to automate renewal of certs for WAS and IHS. This would help renew certificates automatically with out human inervention
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Implement DHE ciphers in IBM HTTP Server to provide Forward Secrecy to clients that do not support ECDHE ciphers

We use IBM HTTP Server 8.5.5 as HTTPS gateway in front of WebSphere Application Server portal system to service a multitude of different, external clients via internet. Those clients are outside our scope of influence, so we cannot dictate securit...
about 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

JPA warning message

The warning message is appearing frequently and it costs I/O and performance for the servers. CWWJP9991W: openjpa.Runtime: Warn: The property "openjpa.jdbc.DBDictionary=disableAlterSeqenceIncrementBy" is set to true. Is it possible to avoid them? ...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration