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WebSphere traditional

SOAP request SAML assertion is not functional by default on WAS.

When a SOAP SAML request which contains a full blown SAML assertion in it is sent over as an http post to WAS, it doesn't process the SAML assertion. Out of the box there is a WEB SSO TAI which can process a SAML assertion provided all the SAML as...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

WS-Security policy set bindings don't work with Web SSO global security

State Farm secures all their web resources in their WAR modules, so nothing is left unsecured. We have a JAX-WS web service endpoint. This is also apparently secured by the Web module security. We have WS-Security specific policy sets defined on t...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Alter the metrics.ear app to show metrics per instance in zOS WAS ND

Hi, We use WebSphere AS ND in zOS platform. In version 9.0.5, it comes with a metrics.ear app to expose metrics in prometheus format. The problem is that if we have multiple WAS instances configured, it sums up the metrics and in that case we cant...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

z/OS IHS Apache - document error log messages

Most IBM components and products come with messages manuals that provide thorough documentation of messages issued by the product. I haven't found any such doc for the z/OS IHS based on Apache. Doc should provide message text and level, explanatio...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 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...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Perform host name verification for SSL channels

On WAS 7 server deployed JavaEE application which acting as web service client (JAX-WS) and communicating with web service over HTTPS (SSL channel). When web service client made connection to target server, the common name (CN) from the server cer...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional 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...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Setting Unit of Order on Message producer

We had created a Case # TS001140603 and asked to create a REF for the below feature. We are migrating j2ee weblogic application to websphere 8.5.5 ND and need to specify Unit of order. Consider below e-commerce scenario. A client makes an online p...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional Functionality already exists

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