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IBM SDK v8 support for Apple Mac OS (M1 and M2 processors) to support developing J2EE applications on Apple Mac OS.

There are a lot of different WebSphere Application Server stack-products available for which all need to be running on IBM SDK v8 when using the traditional application server. More and more J2EE developers moving to Apple Mac OS, for which the ha...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Switch option to finish searching all repositories in the federated repositories right after user is found.

In customer's WAS 8.5.5.x system, many base entries for each CN entries in customer's LDAP are registered to the federated repositories. In current design, search results for user are returned after all repositories are searched. Federated reposit...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

We want WAS to be configured in a manner so that if client provide RSA certificate less than 2048 bit then the request should be rejected by IBM WebSphere Application Server

This is useful in making system less vulnerable. All client using IBM WebSphere would be benefitted from this. IBM WebSphere application Server should work in a manner so that if client provide RSA certificate less than 2048 bit then the request s...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 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 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Create ACME agent to automate renewal of certs for WAS and IHS.

Create ACME agent to automate renewal of certs for WAS and IHS. This would help renew certificates automatically with out human inervention
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Currently IBM HTTP Server is not support FFDHE ciphers.

IBM Http server is currently not supporting FFDHE cipher groups. Traditional finite-field-based Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange during the Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshake suffers from a number of security, interoperability, and efficie...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Enable ISO8601 log format for all traditional WebSphere logs - native_stdout.log, native_stderr.log, startServer.log, stopServer.log, wsadmin.traceout

PH39243: ADD ISO-8601 DATE OPTION FOR SYSTEMOUT/ERR.LOG FILES only enable ISO8601 format on SystemOut.log, SystemErr.log, FFDC and trace.log. May I suggest to enable the log format on other WebSphere logs also ( native_stdout.log, native_stderr.lo...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

DynamicInbound Endpoint SSL Config

Similar to the 'dynamic outbound endpoint SSL configurations' feature, it would be helpful to specify the SSL config and certificate used when WAS receives an inbound connection. As an L2 Support employee, I have worked cases where clients request...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

IBM Java 8 and above tuning option for PhantomReference processing

Please introduce a tuning option into IBM Java 8 and above that we can use to tune the aggressiveness of how often the JVM marks objects as phantomly reachable. If this is introduced then it could help avoid memory related problems
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration