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Support of Servlet API 3.1 on WebSphere 8.5.5

SSA has a large traditional WAS footprint (on Z and distributed systems) and an upgrade is going to take a large effort .The ask is for a fixpack to support Struts 6 with support for Servlet 3.1 .There may be other customers also that may be impac...
7 months ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Delivered

TLS 1.3 support with TLS 1.2 fallback

We need in tWAS 8.5.5 support for TLS 1.3 as well as TLS 1.2 for a fallback option.
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 12 Delivered

TLSv1.3 support for IBM WebSphere Application Server

TLSv1.3 support for IBM WebSphere Application ServerPlease enable support of TLS 1.3 for WAS version 855 and 9.RFC standard has been released. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8446.txt Fábio
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Delivered

Support SP initiated SAML support

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing broader support in existing feature The current WebSphere SAML support via SAML TAI only supports specific Identity Provider (IdP) initiated scenario, or as frames it "SP Redirect to IdP Web ...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Delivered

Certificate Filter should allow access to the Subject Alternative Name fields

Hi We deployed certificate based authentication to work with IBM Rational CLM products to support Federal mandate (2F Authentication using smart card know as PIV). From past few years this solution worked with no issues. However, VA is migrating i...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Delivered

Limit the number of retries after a 503 on PlugIn

Plugin re-tries on 503 error code is equal to the number of jvms in a cluster. We have huge cluster with more than 50 jvms. We want to limit the number of re-tries which plugin attempts on 503. Need a setting to define the limit on the number of r...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered

Porvide support for JWE in OpenId connect websphere interceptor

Need to add properties to support JWE to allow us to decrypt a JWE token https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/559779
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered

Allow syncNode.sh to work with IBM's MFA for z/OS

We are using IBM's MFA for z/OS solution to MFA enable our systems administrators across a wide range of interfaces including TSO, CICS, DB2, IMS, Netview, Omegamon​, and zWAS. Since we are using a compound in-band solution where the password and ...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Delivered

Change background color for Admin Console

WAS admins have a non-prod console, and a prod console open side by side to do any config comparisons, and by accident, easily one might change the configuration in Production Live Console, which is quite risky. There have been many instances that...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Delivered

Allow shell identity to be used for authentication of addnode.sh and syncnode.sh on z/OS

We have an automated scripts that runs for syncnode.sh and addnode.sh. The WAS Admin password is not known and is rotated. See open case TS007505717
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered