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WebSphere traditional

Support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 in IBM HTTP Server 9.0

The HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocols support improves performance in the servers and the applications, increases security and user experience as well. There protocols offer better deal with multiple simultaneous connections using lower latency and enha...
28 days ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

WebSphere Application Server Support for HashiCorp Vault Usage

Please note this is the same as previous RFE 149411 Our Cyber team’s latest compliance requirement mandates that datasource passwords are rotated every 180 days. To meet this, we’re exploring HashiCorp Vault to manage and rotate JDBC datasource cr...
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Outbound Interface Binding Support for Web Server Plug-in (OutboundIP) on transportlevel

The Outbound Interface Binding Support for Web Server Plug-in feature makes it possible to bind the outgoing traffic from Webserver plugin to a specific IP address. It would be great if this feature could be used at transport level. This would mak...
7 days ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

Support custom tablespaces for the setupIdMgrDBTables command

Hello IBM,this idea is based on HCL DX technote https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0132913 . Currently IBM provides the setupIdMgrDBTables command to create a database related VMM DB as described at URL: https...
24 days ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Urgent Need for a Distinct Separation Between Auditor Authority and Administrator Authority

WebSphere Application Server users need a Distinct Separation Between Auditor Authority and Administrator Authority Category: Security, Auditing, and Compliance Executive Summary: The current WebSphere Application Server design allows users such a...
10 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Ability for the plug in to leverage the sysplex distributor for the DDVIPA to determine when a systems is up

We currently have a case with IBM open on this and is effecting our production systems. If you reach out to me, i will share the case number. Not wanting to put that in the IDEA When shutting down an LPAR in a plex, and is removed by the TCPIP LEA...
7 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Add support for standard MIBs for SNMPv3

WAS 9 SNMPv3 capability is used for PMI exposure only, market standard MIBs are not used. We request to add support for standard MIBs to be used with external monitorizing tools, like PRTG
5 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Maintain all the artifacts in embedded jdk that comes with WAS 8.5.5

Per the technote, the Java orb.properties, java.policy, and cacerts files are non-serviceable in WAS v8.5.5 (e.g. they are not updated). The files are serviceable in the Java SDK provided for WAS 9.0 and Liberty. WebSphere Application Server Java ...
12 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Post quantum cryptography for tWAS and IHS

Once quantum computing is used, some current encryptions may no longer be considered as secured. WAS and IHS may need to implement post quantum cryptography to be secured.
11 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Planned for future release

Allow a transport to be excluded from the plug-in generation

To allow separation of applications on different thread pools (and associated transports), it would be useful to be able to specify which transport(s) propagate to the web server plug-in and which ones don't. Be it with some custom property or els...
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration