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WebSphere traditional

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Add feature to configure Enable/Disable System Dump from admin console

WAS admin console users have the ability to take System dumps and causes issues in production during peak traffic. Requesting a feature added so WAS admins can configure to enable or disable in production environments.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

WebSphere Application Server Support for HashiCorp Vault usage

Our organization mandates the use of HashiCorp Vault to store and retrieve passwords. For Applications hosted on WebSphere Application Server, there is no direct support to make use of HashiCorp Vault to store/retrieve database password as part of...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

warning about stopping the server when restarting the server

need to implement warning about stopping the server when restarting the server in websphere application server web interface in node agent and application server sections
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Allow the output repositories to be a zip file in the IBM Packaging Utility

You can not build zip repositories in the packaging utility command line (pucl) in the -target option.IBM support informed that building of taget repositories are not supported.Usually you need zip repositories so after the pucl command line you n...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Accessing Websphere admin console hosted inside an Openshit POD

IBM provided docker base image for WebSphere application server. We use it to containerize WebSphere traditional applications and move them into Cloud, such as Openshit, for better scalability. However, the WebSphere admin console is not accessible.
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

More flexible integration between WAS and Active Directory

For more optimal communication between WAS and Active directory, we'd like to be able to configure the connection based on AD SRV record "sites".This way the communication can be setup based on the closest available AD servers.
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

WAS traditional: Allow setting JMS sessions as unshareable from the application configuration

There's a known issue (limitation) when using connections to databases or messaging providers from for example servlets without using server-managed transactions. It's described here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/common-reasons-why-connection...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Websphere Application Server: Self Signed Default Websphere certificate missing IP or DNS names in SAN field

The self signed certificates in Websphere application server has default SAN field populated and not the IP or DNS name as required by browsers causing the browsers (Chrome, FireFox etc) to complain that the SAN field is missing.
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to pass parameters from Information Analyzer to TEZ process

We would like to request changes in the IAjobs process to allow the passing of memory parameters from IA > TEZ. We are currently experiencing OOM/GC errors in TEZ where the TEZ process gets killed and the IA job aborts. Our hadoop engineering t...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 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