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WebSphere traditional

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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
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

The fix for PI67363 to be made available on the WAS 8.5 platform.

Issue as per APAR : https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PI67363 The following error is seen in logs during startup of Application Server 9.0 after fresh install SystemErr R ERROR StatusLogger Log4j2 could not find a logging implementation. Pl...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Make Listener Port and Activation Spec status available as prometheus GAUGE metric

As a WAS admin using prometheus for JVM monitoring, I'd like an exposed GAUGE metric that tells me what the status of a ListenerPort or Activation Spec would be on a JVM or Application. 0 could represent stopped and 1 could represent running. It c...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Support NTLMv2 on JavaMail

NTLMv2 is the most secure mechanism communicating with Exchange server and is preferred by customers
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

adding a return code for the AdminTask object methods

I have been writing Jython scripts to perform basic tasks such as creating and deleting JAAS Application and J2C Auth entries in WebSphere. I noticed that some of the methods return no value so it is not easy to determine whether or not they have ...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

TS008873688

n this article about "provider_<id>.redirectToRPHostAndPort" - can this proxy url can be dynamic based on the properties or header etc https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-nd/8.5.5?topic=party-openid-connect-relying-custom-properties
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Functionality already exists

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 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud - manual VPC selection when creating new WAS environment

We're currently using/evaluating the WAS traditional build template on VSI v2.1.0 and have noticed you have to use a unique vpc_name in its build configuration. In an IBM multi cloud heterogeneous environment, it would great if you had the option ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration