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Cert Expiry Endpoints

We are using certificates to call external services from BPM which have an expiration date. As part of our DevOps team we need to monitor when these certificates expires so we can get them renewed before they expire.
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Create wsadmin task to get the “Management scope” for a given key store

Working on following the IBM WebSphere Traditional V9.x STIG 1.0 Checklist Details https://nvd.nist.gov/ncp/checklist/872 to secure our deployment of WebSphere Application Server V 8.5. The STIG guide is noted at V9.x; however all of the STIGs are...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

3th party Hardware Cryptographic Cards supported by the IBMPKCS11Impl crypto provider

We need to register vehicles @ RDW. The RDW is the organization that provides the registration of motor vehicles in the Netherlands, https://www.rdw.nl.This is done with the Certificate of Conformity which needs to be delivered in a digital way.To...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Provide Mechanism to Disable HTTP Methods like HEAD, TRACE, OPTIONS, DEBUG

The application allows methods like HEAD, OPTIONS.HTTP offers a number of methods that can be used to perform actions on the web server. Many of these methods are designed to aid developers in deploying and testing HTTP applications. These HTTP me...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Include re-try and timeout with Activation Spec listener status in the WAS Console

In the WAS Console, when we look at the Activation Spec listener status, instead of just showing 'green' or 'red', it should have functionality where we're able to see the re-tries with the connection the IBM QMGR. Multiple App teams with RBC will...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

More flexible integration between WAS and Active Directory

For more optimal communication between WAS and Active directory, we'd like to be able to configure the connection based on AD SRV record "sites".This way the communication can be setup based on the closest available AD servers.
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

One incorrect password blocking LDAP servers

Problem reported: When the user logs in to an application that relies on WebSphere to authenticate to an LDAP server (Microsoft AD) and types the wrong password, we verify that: • The wrong password is sent to the main LDAP server + 1 retentative•...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Is a defect

WAS traditional: Allow setting JMS sessions as unshareable from the application configuration

There's a known issue (limitation) when using connections to databases or messaging providers from for example servlets without using server-managed transactions. It's described here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/common-reasons-why-connection...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Stop and Start the Activation Spec functionality

We are in need feature to stop and start the activation spec. in WAS
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Functionality already exists

Confirmation dialog box before stopping an cluster in console

In the WAS console, when we try to stop a cluster(s), we select the cluster, and click on Stop, and BOOM, the cluster stop gets initiated and there is no way for us to stop that process in case we have stopped it by mistake. In the case of Applica...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration