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WebSphere traditional

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WebSphere should offer StartTLS support when connecting to LDAP server for authentication

When configuring WebSphere for LDAP authentication, if you select "use SSL", this forces WebSphere to establish an LDAPS connection with the LDAP server (port 636 by default). This is an outdated mechanism. LDAP v3 defines the StartTLS extension, ...
about 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Allow dynamic resizing of the HPEL TextLog

Customer wants to be able to change the size of the HPEL TextLog beyond the default setting. They suggested that it would be preferable if the size could be adjusted dynamically rather than being hardcode
5 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under 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 ...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Provide property to allow skipping of group membership lookup during login

We see a 20-120 second delay during login to our BAW (Business Automation Workflow) application which uses WebSphere 8.5.5.xTrace indicates the time is consumed before ever reaching the application, by WebSphere security code doing full traversal ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Deployment of HA DMGR in AWS using Application Load Balancers instead of On-demand routers

It is useful for the customer that is deploying traditional BAW 24 in AWS using EC2 instances. In QA and Prod they have an active passive stray nodes deployment across two availability zones within the same region. They have the request of having ...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Deployment Manager DR strategy on AWS through AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

It is useful since the customer is deploying traditional BAW 24 in AWS using EC2 instances. In QA and Prod there is an active passive stray nodes deployment across two availability zones within the same region. Therefore to follow recommended DR f...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Not under consideration

Java 11 support for Websphere Traditional

When Guidewire had made the decision to upgrade from Java 8 to Java 11, The client of course looked at application server support for Java 11. What the client confirmed with IBM was that WebSphere Traditional would not be supporting Java 11. Given...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

SAML does not send LOGOUT request from SAML SP to SAML IdP

Background, this is for IBM Connections customers using SAML. Currently, when SAML customers try to logout of Conncetions they can't because SAML does not send LOGOUT request from SAML SP to SAML IdP. . Find ,spec here section 4.3 of http://docs.o...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

Enable hiding the OIDC TAI client secret after its entered.

Why is it useful? Due to it being sensitve information (aka a password). This would prevent sensitive information from being exposed or copied. Who would benefit from it? All users and administrators using the system. How should it work? This obfu...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration