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WebSphere traditional

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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.
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with WAS or IHS

WAS and IHS need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Not under consideration

Create wsadmin task to get the “Management scope” for a given key store

Working on following the IBM WebSphere Traditional V9.x STIG 1.0 Checklist Details https://nvd.nist.gov/ncp/checklist/872 to secure our deployment of WebSphere Application Server V 8.5. The STIG guide is noted at V9.x; however all of the STIGs are...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

3th party Hardware Cryptographic Cards supported by the IBMPKCS11Impl crypto provider

We need to register vehicles @ RDW. The RDW is the organization that provides the registration of motor vehicles in the Netherlands, https://www.rdw.nl.This is done with the Certificate of Conformity which needs to be delivered in a digital way.To...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Provide Mechanism to Disable HTTP Methods like HEAD, TRACE, OPTIONS, DEBUG

The application allows methods like HEAD, OPTIONS.HTTP offers a number of methods that can be used to perform actions on the web server. Many of these methods are designed to aid developers in deploying and testing HTTP applications. These HTTP me...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Include re-try and timeout with Activation Spec listener status in the WAS Console

In the WAS Console, when we look at the Activation Spec listener status, instead of just showing 'green' or 'red', it should have functionality where we're able to see the re-tries with the connection the IBM QMGR. Multiple App teams with RBC will...
about 3 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

Confirmation dialog box before stopping an cluster in console

In the WAS console, when we try to stop a cluster(s), we select the cluster, and click on Stop, and BOOM, the cluster stop gets initiated and there is no way for us to stop that process in case we have stopped it by mistake. In the case of Applica...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Alter the metrics.ear app to show metrics per instance in zOS WAS ND

Hi, We use WebSphere AS ND in zOS platform. In version 9.0.5, it comes with a metrics.ear app to expose metrics in prometheus format. The problem is that if we have multiple WAS instances configured, it sums up the metrics and in that case we cant...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration