Any executing image can core dump. It may be one of the ulimit settings for the iplanet webserver user(s). -- I do not know iplanet.
logon or su to the user.
Code:
jmcnama > ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) 2015464
stack(kbytes) 256000
memory(kbytes) unlimited
coredump(blocks) 4194303
if coredump is set to 0 no core will be produced, for example. If disk quotas are enabled and the quota in question is nearly used up, core may not get created as well. core has to do with user and system-wide settings.