I had a PMR open with IBM and L3 support pointed me to the right direction by 
sifting through the logs.

--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: (PROBLEM SOLVED) WAS 6.1: There is no Action mapped for 
> namespace / and action name j_security_check
> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org>
> Received: Friday, June 5, 2009, 12:47 AM
> 
> Did you get a chance to contact IBM to apprise them of this
> solution?
> 
> Félicitations sur ce travail le plus excellent
> 
> !
> 
> Martin 
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> > Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:15:06 -0700
> > From: struts...@yahoo.ca
> > Subject: Re: (PROBLEM SOLVED) WAS 6.1: There is no
> Action mapped for namespace / and action name
> j_security_check
> > To: user@struts.apache.org
> > 
> > 
> > Finally, the problem with form based authentication
> got resovled. However; here is a summary of what happens
> that we get the error:
> > 
> > There is no Action mapped for namespace / and
> actionName j_security_check
> > 
> > With form-based authentication, Websphere
> authenticates a user by using URI
> <hostname>/<context-root>/j_security_check.
> > 
> > Due to the fact that in struts 2.1 default action
> extension list (struts.action.extension) has changed from
> just 'action' to 'action' plus " , j_security_check is
> mistaken as an struts action.
> > 
> > Line:
> > 
> > config =
> configuration.getRuntimeConfiguration().getActionConfig(namespace,
> actionName);
> > 
> > in class com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionProxy
> located in method prepare() returns null for actionName
> j_security_check" and consquently
> > "no mapping error" is displayed.
> > 
> > Solution:
> > 
> > as described in migration guide in the following link
> [which makes it clear why everything in struts 2.0 works but
> not struts 2.1]:
> > 
> > http://cwiki.apache.org/S2WIKI/troubleshooting-guide-migrating-from-struts-20x-to-21x.html
> > 
> > Add the following to your struts.xml
> > 
> > <constant name="struts.action.extension"
> value="action" />
> > 
> > and then in your web.xml, change:
> > 
> >     <filter-mapping>
> >     
>    <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
> >     
>    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
> >     </filter-mapping> 
> 
> >     
> >     TO 
> > 
> >     <filter-mapping>
> >     
>    <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
> >     
>    <url-pattern>*.action</url-pattern>
> > 
>    </filter-mapping>   
> > 
> > The form based authentication works just like basic
> authentication. You still need to have the following
> properties set:
> > 
> >
> com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.assumefiltersuccessonsecurityerror =
> true
> > com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.invokefilterscompatibility =
> true
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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