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My ideas: WebSphere traditional

Clustered EJB Timer service

The integrated EJB Timer service has to be configured for each application server. While providing support to client I discovered that the EJB Timer Service is configured for APPServer1 and APPServer2 separately by going inside path "Servers > ...
10 months ago in WebSphere traditional Functionality already exists

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 Future consideration

OIDC integration with the the IBM IHS HTTP Server

I know that the apache web server has and oidc module and the IBM's HTTP Server is built on it. But IBM doesn't support the use of the oidc module. It would be great if IBM could support the use of the oidc module in it's HTTP Server. This would a...
11 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

WebSphere Audit Functionality

Using the Audit feature we want to be able to log any type of configuration change.What was the change, at what time and with what userid.Currently the only filter that allows that is “RESOURCE_ACCESS:SUCCESS ”, the problem is that it logs everyth...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future 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...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

JDK 17 support for tWAS

JDK 17 is not supported for tWAS with Filent. We were advised to use JDK 18 Liberty
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Allow the output repositories to be a zip file in the IBM Packaging Utility

You can not build zip repositories in the packaging utility command line (pucl) in the -target option.IBM support informed that building of taget repositories are not supported.Usually you need zip repositories so after the pucl command line you n...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 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...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Session rebalancing and affinity switchback default value are mismatch in dynamic cluster

WAS default dynamic cluster settings are following. #1. HttpSessionRebalanceOff=false (*1) : this indicates that session rebalancing is ON. #2. NoAffinitySwitchBack=false (*2) : this indicates that affinity switchback is ON. In other words, when o...
about 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Deployment Manager Console Log Format and Customization

We are attempting to add real time monitoring to audit and security logs in our WebSphere environments for WebSphere Application Deployment Manager Console/Integrated Solution Console. The tool that our organization is using can not read/monitor t...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration