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Allow Application Install for .ear Files Greater Than 1 gb

The 1 gb limit on deploying an ear file in WebSphere is causing us to have to use Configuration Manager to deploy any changes to the application and increasing downtime.
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Support Java 2 Security to restrict application acceess to local resoures

This a CAT-I finding for DoD STIG: Below is their reasoning: Rule Title : The WebSphere Application Server Java 2 security must be enabled. Discussion : Java 2 security provides a policy-based fine grained access control mechanism that increases o...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Functionality already exists

The Useable WebSphere Auditing Functions Are Required by the Department of Defense

The current WAS Auditing function does provide readily useable logs to even track down simple events such as starting/stopping an application server via the WAS Admin Console. I would like to see such functionality added to the NDM audit logs. I a...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Application Redistribution

This is what the client company is requesting. I'm using WebSphere's application binary configuration. Redistribution occurs when changing application options. We want to control or eliminate this.
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

WebSockets support for IIS.

I have a updated version of a application that now parts of uses WebSockets. IIS supports WebSockets but not the ISAPI Plugin. I am told that Apache would support this but I dont think this is a option for me. If you bypass IIS and go directly to ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Add support for com.ibm.mq.cfg.jmqi.useMQCSPauthentication in WAS 8.5.5.X

Currently the MQ RAR packaged with WAS 8.5.5.X is too old to support com.ibm.mq.cfg.jmqi.useMQCSPauthentication. This means that for anyone who is unable to move to WAS 9 any MQ connection is required to use far less secure passwords.
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Create User for WAS Console That can see only Applications tab After login

create user for application team to enable them to deploy their application only, after this newly created user logins cant see or interact with any tabs within WAS console except Applications tab only.All WAS console tabs become invisible to this...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

warning about stopping the server when restarting the server

need to implement warning about stopping the server when restarting the server in websphere application server web interface in node agent and application server sections
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to add login_hint parameter to the OIDC TAI, that will allow a hint to be passed to the Identity Provider

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing new featured We are using the WAS OIDC TAI to connect with Azure AD as the identity provider. We are being asked to send some information to Azure in the authentication request, using a login...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to pass parameters from Information Analyzer to TEZ process

We would like to request changes in the IAjobs process to allow the passing of memory parameters from IA > TEZ. We are currently experiencing OOM/GC errors in TEZ where the TEZ process gets killed and the IA job aborts. Our hadoop engineering t...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration