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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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

DynamicInbound Endpoint SSL Config

Similar to the 'dynamic outbound endpoint SSL configurations' feature, it would be helpful to specify the SSL config and certificate used when WAS receives an inbound connection. As an L2 Support employee, I have worked cases where clients request...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

IBM Java 8 and above tuning option for PhantomReference processing

Please introduce a tuning option into IBM Java 8 and above that we can use to tune the aggressiveness of how often the JVM marks objects as phantomly reachable. If this is introduced then it could help avoid memory related problems
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Remove the compromised ciphers from the Strong list in the Cipher suite settings for SSL

Some of the Cipher Suites in the Strong group are not "strong" anymore as have been compromised by attacks like "ROBOT". We think that they should not be included as default as "Strong" ciber-suites.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Enable WebSphere Property management to support access_log of application server configuration

Today, WebSphere Property management can support configuration of trace.log, Systemout.log or SystemErr.log, except HTTP access_log. Please kindly consider to support it for completeness.
almost 2 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.
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 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...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Allow encryption algorithm to be AES-256 in GCM mode for JAX-WS and JAX-RPC security runtime.

We have recently upgraded to AES-256 in CBC mode on JAX-WS and JAX-RPC security runtime for our application servers, however we are required by our cryptography standards to move to the preferred GCM mode before the end of 2021. This option does n...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Future consideration

Setting Unit of Order on Message producer

We had created a Case # TS001140603 and asked to create a REF for the below feature. We are migrating j2ee weblogic application to websphere 8.5.5 ND and need to specify Unit of order. Consider below e-commerce scenario. A client makes an online p...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Functionality already exists