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Implement DHE ciphers in IBM HTTP Server to provide Forward Secrecy to clients that do not support ECDHE ciphers

We use IBM HTTP Server 8.5.5 as HTTPS gateway in front of WebSphere Application Server portal system to service a multitude of different, external clients via internet. Those clients are outside our scope of influence, so we cannot dictate securit...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Automated In-Doubt TX Cleanup

When there are in-doubt txs in the tranlog and partnerlogs when we undeploy an ear with a BPM resource adapter in it, there is no step done to clear the entries in the tranlog and partnerlog. Over time as we deploy new versions of our BPM applicat...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

java JPS implementation on AIX should be changed for urgent performance reasons

we use standard java JPS (java print system) functionality to print to devices from WebSphere Application Server 9.0 on AIX.Implementation of JPS on AIX uses native AIX commands which finally end up in calling rembak command which has a default ti...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 15 Not under 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 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future 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

"Quality of Protection (QoP) settings" display box leads to security breaches

The SSL Quality of Protection (QoP) settings (SSL certificate and key management > SSL configuration > NodeDefaultSSLSettings) panel is particularly frustrating to use and leads to security breaches 1- The list of available ciphers is contai...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Session rebalancing and affinity switchback default value are mismatch in dynamic cluster

WAS default dynamic cluster settings are following. #1. HttpSessionRebalanceOff=false (*1) : this indicates that session rebalancing is ON. #2. NoAffinitySwitchBack=false (*2) : this indicates that affinity switchback is ON. In other words, when o...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Allow for multiple Subject Alternative Name DNS entries in Certificate Signing Requests in the WAS admin console

In WebSphere 8.5.5 fix pack 18 support for specifying Subject Alternative Names DND, IP, email values was added when creating a certificate signing request (CSR) via the WebSphere Administrative Console. However, the capability currently allows on...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

JPA warning message

The warning message is appearing frequently and it costs I/O and performance for the servers. CWWJP9991W: openjpa.Runtime: Warn: The property "openjpa.jdbc.DBDictionary=disableAlterSeqenceIncrementBy" is set to true. Is it possible to avoid them? ...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration