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WebSphere traditional

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Websphere Audit log format

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing improvement on existing feature Description: We are using WAS 8.5.5 and 9.0. The audit log generated by WebSphere is in binary format which is not readable by QRadar. Request to generate the ...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Future 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

Support JDBC 4.2 in WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 supports Java SE 8. It should support JDBC 4.2 in accordance with specification of JSE 8 (https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337). However, the latest system requirement of WAS 8.5.5 only states support of JDBC up ...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to add login_hint parameter to the OIDC TAI, that will allow a hint to be passed to the Identity Provider

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing new featured We are using the WAS OIDC TAI to connect with Azure AD as the identity provider. We are being asked to send some information to Azure in the authentication request, using a login...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future 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...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Stop and Start the Activation Spec functionality

We are in need feature to stop and start the activation spec. in WAS
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Functionality already exists

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

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

"False Positive" / "False Negative" for the applications “DefaultApplication” and “ITIM”

As described in the support case, there is very disturbing that the applications are reported as "Partial running". In addition, when core cause reported as a component with "unknown" status. The displayed status must be corrected, to show the act...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration