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Support for the SAN attribute in the CSR request when using wsadmin or the WAS admin console.

We want to be able to use the SAN attribute in PKI keys/certificates. This is needed to pass host verification during the TLS handshake if the certificate is to be used by processes on different hosts, e.g., multiple WAS application server process...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

VET Change Websphere security configuration to allow non-Security Admin managers to generate heapdump/javacore/core files

Websphere 8.0 introduced new functionality that allows administrators to generate heapdumps/system dump/java cores on demand.This is very useful for administrators investigating particular problem types. The default Websphere configuration means t...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional Functionality already exists

SSL Certificate Management for Liberty Profile. Certificate expiry Alerting and Certificate Renewal

WAS Liberty Profile requires SSL expiry monitoring and alerting. SSL Certificates are usually valid for many years, and the expiry dates of certificates are often missed, until the system fails due to expired certificates.
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Invalidate LtpaToken post-logout

We believe this is actually yet another instance of a request this customer has made multiple times through various channels. (Maybe other customers too, but we know of this one for sure). The issue customer raises is that "logout" does not actual...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log

In the customer's WASv8.5.5.20 system, they have observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log. Referring the WAS code, it just subtract System.currentTimeMillis from the previous System.currentTimeMillis. We were...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration

Plugin Mongo DB for UCD Deploy

Our application teams would like to have possibility to deploy SQL files to MongoDB database. Plugin should work similar to MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle plugins that already exist in UCD.
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Require Ansible playbooks to deploy and manage WAS ND deployments

Client is using CP4WAIOPS Infrastrututure Management to deploy and manage WAS ND. When they used the tooling in the past they had used Chef cookbooks to build and deploy WAS ND systems. Since IBM Purchaed RH, the CloudPak has indicated that Chef i...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Support FIPS 140-3 for z/OS

The IBMJCEPlusFIPS cryptography module was certified for FIPS 140-3 by NIST in August 2024 and is supported on most platforms (as mentioned in the Operational environments section) for production use in IBM SDK for Java 8.0.8.30 or later. The IBMJ...
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional Planned for future release

UI improvements to help connect deployments to versions

Our users have compained about it being hard to see which version is being processed in a deployment. This of course can be found in the Manifest tab but it would be better to see it at the top of the deployment log tab. It would also be good to b...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

WASPreUpgrade command allowed on the same version

Currently the WASPreUpgrade command is not allowed on the same version, so we must have two different versions installed on the same server or IBM i and run the command from the new version, entering the old version as a parameter. In scenarios of...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits Submitted

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