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Balance launch process orders given by APC

After a restart of the nodes of a cell with Intelligent Management, we see that APC send all launch process orders to the same machine instead of balancing the orders among the members of the cell. In a cell with many dynamic clusters, and a polic...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

REST/SOAP Web service parameters

Request to; increase max number of parameters passed when deploying service programs as web services. When deploying a REST Web service based on a rpg service program (*srvpgm) the number of possible parameters passed is to low to be able to prope...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Back to login page link after shutting down Deployment Manager

I'd like to see a link to get back to the main console login page on the screen that shows up after stopping the deployment manager via the console. This is by no means an important feature, but it would be a nice quality of life improvement when ...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under 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 7 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 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

allow daisy-chain of two IHS servers with the WAS Plug-in

Currently there is no straightforward way to have IHS A in the DMZ route to IHS B (a normal IHS that routes to WAS) in the middle/interior network. It should be a straightforward use of the existing function in the WAS Plug-in, but some way to gen...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Need IBM HTTP Sever (IHS) to support OCSP Stapling

We want IHS (IBM HTTP Server to support OCSP Stapling Hello Kris, I'm Danielle Bingham from WebSphere L2 Support and I will be assisting you with the below :-) ACTION PLAN: Issue: Does IHS support OCSP Stapling? IHS does not support OCSP Stapling ...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Session rebalancing and affinity switchback default value are mismatch in dynamic cluster

WAS default dynamic cluster settings are following. #1. HttpSessionRebalanceOff=false (*1) : this indicates that session rebalancing is ON. #2. NoAffinitySwitchBack=false (*2) : this indicates that affinity switchback is ON. In other words, when o...
about 8 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...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

Implement DHE ciphers in IBM HTTP Server to provide Forward Secrecy to clients that do not support ECDHE ciphers

We use IBM HTTP Server 8.5.5 as HTTPS gateway in front of WebSphere Application Server portal system to service a multitude of different, external clients via internet. Those clients are outside our scope of influence, so we cannot dictate securit...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration