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WebSphere traditional

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...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Cluster stop/start confirmation popup to avoid production outages

We are looking for a confirmation popup or a secondary window about the action we are performing during cluster stop and start to avoid potential production impacts.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

To enable the daily rotation of trace.log in basic mode

Is it possible to enable the daily rotation of trace.log in basic mode.
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

All audit event outcome codes are not working as expected using Security auditing feature of WebSphere

All audit event outcome codes are not working as expected while using Security auditing feature of WebSphere. We tried to use security auditing feature but after enabling we found that the list of all outcome codes are not working. We had raised T...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under 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

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

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

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 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future 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...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional Functionality already exists