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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 6, 2019

Timeout parameter needed to prevent hung threads caused from WSDL loading

It would be helpful if a timeout parameter is in place to prevent BPM from attempting to read a wsdl file

Idea priority Medium
RFE ID 130690
RFE URL
RFE Product IBM Business Process Manager
  • Admin
    Francesca Pagano
    Reply
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    Jul 7, 2023

    Thank you for your idea submission. We have made changes to integrate with WSDL, please retest this item and open a new idea should the issue remain. Closing this idea for now.

  • Guest
    Reply
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    May 21, 2019

    This should be marked as HIGH priority. We have experienced outages 3 times in the last 3 months due to this issue. There is no recovery option from this issue other than to restart the server.

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Mar 23, 2019

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Digital Business Automation
    Product - IBM Business Process Manager
    Component - Process Server
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Application Platform
    Product - WebSphere Application Server
    Component - Runtime
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - None