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For WebSphere Application Server to support LDAP Channel Binding for end user authenticaion

Using Enble the LDAP Channel binding will help us to end user authention in IBM Websherer Application Server and its proves more secure in centralized authentication mechanism.
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Support JDBC 4.2 in WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 supports Java SE 8. It should support JDBC 4.2 in accordance with specification of JSE 8 (https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337). However, the latest system requirement of WAS 8.5.5 only states support of JDBC up ...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

WebSphere OpenID Connect Relying Party - Could you please add client_assertion as an authentication method?

Current Situation: We are using the IBM supplied replying party plugin with Microsoft Entra: Component name: OpenID Connect Relying Party TAITAI class name: com.ibm.ws.security.oidc.client.RelyingPartyVersion: 9.0 f5192405.01 This combination allo...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

WebSphere Audit Functionality

Using the Audit feature we want to be able to log any type of configuration change.What was the change, at what time and with what userid.Currently the only filter that allows that is “RESOURCE_ACCESS:SUCCESS ”, the problem is that it logs everyth...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Enhance JAX-RS 2.0 client implementation to make it use WAS SSLSetting defined in the cell automatically

See also CASE TS005178606.
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Add WAS z/OS support up to Db2 z/OS v13 FL50x for the sibDDLGenerator.sh script

The full details and background, etc., can be found in the Support Case TS017121234 The DDL produced by the WAS z/OS sibDDLGenerator.sh script is no longer valid; this manifested itself during our testing with Db2 v12 z/OS at FL504. Furthermore, t...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Remove the compromised ciphers from the Strong list in the Cipher suite settings for SSL

Some of the Cipher Suites in the Strong group are not "strong" anymore as have been compromised by attacks like "ROBOT". We think that they should not be included as default as "Strong" ciber-suites.
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Cert Expiry Endpoints

We are using certificates to call external services from BPM which have an expiration date. As part of our DevOps team we need to monitor when these certificates expires so we can get them renewed before they expire.
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Allow encryption algorithm to be AES-256 in GCM mode for JAX-WS and JAX-RPC security runtime.

We have recently upgraded to AES-256 in CBC mode on JAX-WS and JAX-RPC security runtime for our application servers, however we are required by our cryptography standards to move to the preferred GCM mode before the end of 2021. This option does n...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Future consideration

SOAP request SAML assertion is not functional by default on WAS.

When a SOAP SAML request which contains a full blown SAML assertion in it is sent over as an http post to WAS, it doesn't process the SAML assertion. Out of the box there is a WEB SSO TAI which can process a SAML assertion provided all the SAML as...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration