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

OpenJPA and SQL Limits

As per PMR 13287,842,758 Currently running WAS for z/OS 8.5.5.14. One of our development teams complains a misbehaviour of Websphere's AS JPA embedded implementation on setting the lower limit of the number of results in criteria query. They say t...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 5 Not under consideration

Enable Options to store old config backups out of WAS installation Directory during restoreConfig.bat

IBM team in Case TS006197127, has requested below To remove old backup configurations as we noticed the issues with that in the past. However we still see you keep old config backups under the profile please remove them from that folder and store ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

Need a valid message ID for CWSJY0003W in Websphere for z/OS

Hello, Whenever a disconnect happens between WAS and MQ the below message appears in WAS log: [:] CWSJY0003W We wanted to setup an alert to capture CWSJY0003W message in automations but unfortunately [:] does not look like a valid message ID that ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Stale http session access during rollout update in case one browser requests multiple requests in a same time.

Today, web application architecture has changed from old style Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, AJAX, Single Page Application architecture and so on. Especially in new web application architecture, an application's client/browser side may call multiple request...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

PMI hung thread reporting

We would like to use a health policy that reacts to a condition of n hung threads. It's possible to create a custom policy, however its behaviour is obscure. This is due to the way hung threads are reported internally in WAS. PMI stats are used to...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Allow Application Install for .ear Files Greater Than 1 gb

The 1 gb limit on deploying an ear file in WebSphere is causing us to have to use Configuration Manager to deploy any changes to the application and increasing downtime.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Support Java 2 Security to restrict application acceess to local resoures

This a CAT-I finding for DoD STIG: Below is their reasoning: Rule Title : The WebSphere Application Server Java 2 security must be enabled. Discussion : Java 2 security provides a policy-based fine grained access control mechanism that increases o...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Functionality already exists