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Allow syncNode.sh to work with IBM's MFA for z/OS

We are using IBM's MFA for z/OS solution to MFA enable our systems administrators across a wide range of interfaces including TSO, CICS, DB2, IMS, Netview, Omegamon​, and zWAS. Since we are using a compound in-band solution where the password and ...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Delivered

Passwords in security.xml XOR encoded and weak

Dear Team, We are badly hit by our security team on this XOR encoding mechanism of Websphere console users. We need Websphere product with inbuild encryption facility to make the sure password are in encypted format (AES/DES). Kindly take this as ...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered

Datasource connection setup and cleanup configurable statements for WebSphere Liberty profile

In Websphere classic we can provide a custom datasource helper class on the datasource definition to do some setup and teardown of the connection based on the current context/thread before its given back to the caller or returned to the pool. In W...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered

Old pid log used after crash

One system in sysplex crashed. After it was IPLed back noted that Apache HTTP server didn't start. It's proc quietly ended with CC 0000. Checked logs/proc.output and found this: :/ST1/etc/ihsconfig/ihs/ihsaest1/logs # cat proc.output You are logge...
about 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Delivered

Enable Websphere ldap user registry to support ldap binding authentication by Kerberos

Currently, the ldap user registry used in the federated repository need a password-based authentication for the ldap binding account. To achieve a passwordless scenario through Kerberos and credential cache, it would be a more secure offering if l...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered

Increase keylength of Diffie Hellman key to 4096

Need for increased Diffie Hellman keylength in communication with partners in the E-business area. Especially when doing card-payments with 3D secure
about 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered

IFIX applied in JOBLOG

When we have IFIXES installed onto our WebSphere V8.5 and V9.0.5 application servers the IFIXES don't display in the JOBLOG.Just the version the fix pack level are generated.It would be a great help to have the IFIX levels displayed in the JOBLOG ...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered

Update WAS Java Mail files

The WAS embedded java mail jars are several generations old causing TLS connection issues that are fixed in the higher version.
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered

Enable Password Encryption instead of encoding

Currently saved passwords can be decrypted especially if we share our xml files or seen by any vendor which is a major risk in auditing especially in banking or financial sectors. I think IBM can find a way so the password is hard to be 'plain' in...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered

Include uptime in javacore files

It would be good if the javacore file would include the uptime (start date/time) of the JVM.
almost 12 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Delivered