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IBM Cloud - manual VPC selection when creating new WAS environment

We're currently using/evaluating the WAS traditional build template on VSI v2.1.0 and have noticed you have to use a unique vpc_name in its build configuration. In an IBM multi cloud heterogeneous environment, it would great if you had the option ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

Enable Account Lockout after 3 failed logins

Passwords are prune to Bruteforce attacks, an attacker can easily brute force the passwords as the password policy is weak andallows simple alpha numeric characters without any restriction of password length e.g.: admin, passetc.Account lockout me...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

Perform host name verification for SSL channels

On WAS 7 server deployed JavaEE application which acting as web service client (JAX-WS) and communicating with web service over HTTPS (SSL channel). When web service client made connection to target server, the common name (CN) from the server cer...
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Request to set the transaction timeout on connections to Microsoft SQL Server to a value other than infinity.

Our company has a production Business Process Management deployment which experiences intermittent outages due to the fact that we are unable to reset the transaction timeout on connections to Microsoft SQL Server to a value other than infinity. T...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Add feature to make WAS present SSL ciphers in order of strength

As the title says, Add a feature to WAS to present in order of strength the SSL ciphers configured to the clients connecting to WAS, regardless of what the client wants to enforce, as IHS (apache) does via the setting "SSLHonorCipherOrder on" or a...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

[jaxws] implements polymorphism for exceptions raised by jaxws servers

[JAX-WS] On server side, sub classes of exceptions declared in soap methods signatures when raised at runtime are not interpreted as if they were listed exceptions but treated as if they are undeclared exceptions (therefore in the soap fault the d...
over 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to add login_hint parameter to the OIDC TAI, that will allow a hint to be passed to the Identity Provider

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing new featured We are using the WAS OIDC TAI to connect with Azure AD as the identity provider. We are being asked to send some information to Azure in the authentication request, using a login...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

WAS for z/OS V8 feature request about findMbean/queryNames behavior

We have 2 requirments about the findMBean/queryNames behaivior in multiple servant environment. The summary of the requirement is as follows: (1) We wants to check an MBean registered in OWN servant by findMBean/queryNames.(2) We wants to check an...
over 12 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

Headline: Proxy server to access Installation Manager repositories

Due to the fact that WebSphere v9.0 is no longer delivered via SMP/E, the Installation Manager needs to download the software components from a cloud-based repository. Because our z/OS system runs behind a firewall, the download fails miserably ;-...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

cryptic exception when session max count exceeded

when WAS ND (v8.5.5.10) has a session setting to limit max HTTP sessions per JVM and that limit is crossed a cryptic exception is being thrown. it took 8 hours for IBM team to understand the real cause.
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration