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Add a REFRESH SECUIRTY command like MQ uses to reload certs in WebSphere on Z

The same functionality MQ used to reload certificates I would like applied to WAS. Currently you have to cycle the WAS servers to bring in certificates when they expire or need to be updated.
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Log aggregation of repeated application runtime exceptions

This request is for improvement in WebSphere logging and tracing. Log aggregation of repeated application run time exceptions so that logs are not filled and rolled over. This is similar to FFDC logs where repeated exception stacks are not printed...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

Cluster stop/start confirmation popup to avoid production outages

We are looking for a confirmation popup or a secondary window about the action we are performing during cluster stop and start to avoid potential production impacts.
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

z/OS IHS Apache - document error log messages

Most IBM components and products come with messages manuals that provide thorough documentation of messages issued by the product. I haven't found any such doc for the z/OS IHS based on Apache. Doc should provide message text and level, explanatio...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under 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 9 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 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

IBM SDK v8 support for Apple Mac OS (M1 and M2 processors) to support developing J2EE applications on Apple Mac OS.

There are a lot of different WebSphere Application Server stack-products available for which all need to be running on IBM SDK v8 when using the traditional application server. More and more J2EE developers moving to Apple Mac OS, for which the ha...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

We want WAS to be configured in a manner so that if client provide RSA certificate less than 2048 bit then the request should be rejected by IBM WebSphere Application Server

This is useful in making system less vulnerable. All client using IBM WebSphere would be benefitted from this. IBM WebSphere application Server should work in a manner so that if client provide RSA certificate less than 2048 bit then the request s...
10 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Currently IBM HTTP Server is not support FFDHE ciphers.

IBM Http server is currently not supporting FFDHE cipher groups. Traditional finite-field-based Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange during the Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshake suffers from a number of security, interoperability, and efficie...
11 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Enable ISO8601 log format for all traditional WebSphere logs - native_stdout.log, native_stderr.log, startServer.log, stopServer.log, wsadmin.traceout

PH39243: ADD ISO-8601 DATE OPTION FOR SYSTEMOUT/ERR.LOG FILES only enable ISO8601 format on SystemOut.log, SystemErr.log, FFDC and trace.log. May I suggest to enable the log format on other WebSphere logs also ( native_stdout.log, native_stderr.lo...
11 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration