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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
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Request to set the transaction timeout on connections to Microsoft SQL Server to a value other than infinity.

Our company has a production Business Process Management deployment which experiences intermittent outages due to the fact that we are unable to reset the transaction timeout on connections to Microsoft SQL Server to a value other than infinity. T...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Add feature to make WAS present SSL ciphers in order of strength

As the title says, Add a feature to WAS to present in order of strength the SSL ciphers configured to the clients connecting to WAS, regardless of what the client wants to enforce, as IHS (apache) does via the setting "SSLHonorCipherOrder on" or a...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

PKCS11

I want to implement the PKCS11Impl provider (PKCS11) in the WAS 8.5.5.instaed of IBMJCECCA provider cause I think that PKCS11 is more secure than other and more i use the crypto express 5s ,ICSF and TKE.i opened a PMR and after a few weeks i get t...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Functionality already exists

[jaxws] implements polymorphism for exceptions raised by jaxws servers

[JAX-WS] On server side, sub classes of exceptions declared in soap methods signatures when raised at runtime are not interpreted as if they were listed exceptions but treated as if they are undeclared exceptions (therefore in the soap fault the d...
over 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future 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...
almost 5 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...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

"False Positive" / "False Negative" for the applications “DefaultApplication” and “ITIM”

As described in the support case, there is very disturbing that the applications are reported as "Partial running". In addition, when core cause reported as a component with "unknown" status. The displayed status must be corrected, to show the act...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

DEPLYOMENT ROLLOUT FUNCTION FOR APPLICATIONS IN CLUSTER

Currently a user must have the operator and configurator roles at cell level, in order to be allowed to use the rollout function in the last deployment step in the admin console. I.E. you have to give far too high permissions in a cell with severa...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Need a WAS api to update LDAP server connect password dynamically

We are looking for an API to be available in WAS which should be accessible by an external application, for updating the LDAP password dynamically which was configured initially during the LDAP integration.
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Functionality already exists