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Changable context root of Integrated Solutions Console

Using IBM WebSphere Application Server by default the IBM Integrated Solutions Console is just accassible using the context root /ibm/consoleSome customers want to use another context root for their administration console for which it would be nic...
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

To enable the daily rotation of trace.log in basic mode

Is it possible to enable the daily rotation of trace.log in basic mode.
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

To support AES-256 password encryption in traditional WebSphere

As per this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was/9.0.5?topic=files-encrypting-passwords-by-using-aes , WAS only supports AES-128 encryption. My customer's security standard requires AES-256 at the minimum.
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

All audit event outcome codes are not working as expected using Security auditing feature of WebSphere

All audit event outcome codes are not working as expected while using Security auditing feature of WebSphere. We tried to use security auditing feature but after enabling we found that the list of all outcome codes are not working. We had raised T...
7 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Alter the metrics.ear app to show metrics per instance in zOS WAS ND

Hi, We use WebSphere AS ND in zOS platform. In version 9.0.5, it comes with a metrics.ear app to expose metrics in prometheus format. The problem is that if we have multiple WAS instances configured, it sums up the metrics and in that case we cant...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Consider to support OAuth2 modern authentication for Mail Sessions in WebSphere Administrative Console

In my organization we're migrating e-mail to Office 365, and Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication (username/password) for email accounts. Instead they are encouraging us to use modern authentication using Client ID, ID tenant... and so. I...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Create ACME agent to automate renewal of certs for WAS and IHS.

Create ACME agent to automate renewal of certs for WAS and IHS. This would help renew certificates automatically with out human inervention
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement required in auditing framework to include below changes done through admin console.

We are sending websphere audit log to SEIM to identify critical events. During the testing we identified the below security configurations done through websphere console is not getting audited and not part of audit log. a) Disabling Global Sec...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

The fix for PI67363 to be made available on the WAS 8.5 platform.

Issue as per APAR : https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PI67363 The following error is seen in logs during startup of Application Server 9.0 after fresh install SystemErr R ERROR StatusLogger Log4j2 could not find a logging implementation. Pl...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

The metrics endpoint should report basic status information about the cell, applications and JVMs similarly to what is shown in the dmgr

As a WAS admin using prometheus for JVM monitoring, I'd like an exposed GAUGE metric that tells me the status of various things from the Deployment Manager perspective: - List the Deployment Manager Cell info, Node info, WAS version. - List all t...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration