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WebSphere traditional

OpenTelemetry Tracing support of WOLA

Looking for OTEL to support tracing for WAS to CICS
8 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Websphere Audit log format

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing improvement on existing feature Description: We are using WAS 8.5.5 and 9.0. The audit log generated by WebSphere is in binary format which is not readable by QRadar. Request to generate the ...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Future 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 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 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 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

WebSphere ND Primary FID (wasinternaluser) should disable in console (not from backend)

We are the internal WebSphere ND engineering team at Citi, responsible for automating end-to-end installations across the global Citi network, encompassing over 10,000 servers. Approximately one year ago, Citi's security team raised concerns regar...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

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 This is an outdated mechanism.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, ...
almost 10 years 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 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future 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 12 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 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...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Enable WebSphere ND "Test Connection" to Support Custom LoginModule via J2C-JAAS

Idea Summary: Enhance the WebSphere ND administrative console's "Test Connection" function so that it leverages the same internal logic path used by application code, enabling support for custom credential retrieval mechanisms implemented via a cu...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration