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My ideas: WebSphere traditional

Add feature to make WAS present SSL ciphers in order of strength

As the title says, Add a feature to WAS to present in order of strength the SSL ciphers configured to the clients connecting to WAS, regardless of what the client wants to enforce, as IHS (apache) does via the setting "SSLHonorCipherOrder on" or a...
over 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

[jaxws] implements polymorphism for exceptions raised by jaxws servers

[JAX-WS] On server side, sub classes of exceptions declared in soap methods signatures when raised at runtime are not interpreted as if they were listed exceptions but treated as if they are undeclared exceptions (therefore in the soap fault the d...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

WAS for z/OS V8 feature request about findMbean/queryNames behavior

We have 2 requirments about the findMBean/queryNames behaivior in multiple servant environment. The summary of the requirement is as follows: (1) We wants to check an MBean registered in OWN servant by findMBean/queryNames.(2) We wants to check an...
over 13 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Enable hiding the OIDC TAI client secret after its entered.

Why is it useful? Due to it being sensitve information (aka a password). This would prevent sensitive information from being exposed or copied. Who would benefit from it? All users and administrators using the system. How should it work? This obfu...
8 months ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Reload certificate chain when one of the signer certicate expired during IHS runtime

Supposed we have 2 intermediate CA certificates which have the same key identifier and same public key in IHS SSL keystore. These 2 certificates are still within their validity period, which is not uncommon when a CA is rolling update their certif...
9 months ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Add WAS z/OS support up to Db2 z/OS v13 FL50x for the sibDDLGenerator.sh script

The full details and background, etc., can be found in the Support Case TS017121234 The DDL produced by the WAS z/OS sibDDLGenerator.sh script is no longer valid; this manifested itself during our testing with Db2 v12 z/OS at FL504. Furthermore, t...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Consider to support OAuth2 modern authentication for Mail Sessions in WebSphere Administrative Console

In my organization we're migrating e-mail to Office 365, and Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication (username/password) for email accounts. Instead they are encouraging us to use modern authentication using Client ID, ID tenant... and so. I...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Enhancement required in auditing framework to include below changes done through admin console.

We are sending websphere audit log to SEIM to identify critical events. During the testing we identified the below security configurations done through websphere console is not getting audited and not part of audit log. a) Disabling Global Sec...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

The metrics endpoint should report basic status information about the cell, applications and JVMs similarly to what is shown in the dmgr

As a WAS admin using prometheus for JVM monitoring, I'd like an exposed GAUGE metric that tells me the status of various things from the Deployment Manager perspective: - List the Deployment Manager Cell info, Node info, WAS version. - List all t...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Enable Options to store old config backups out of WAS installation Directory during restoreConfig.bat

IBM team in Case TS006197127, has requested below To remove old backup configurations as we noticed the issues with that in the past. However we still see you keep old config backups under the profile please remove them from that folder and store ...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

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