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Authorization Realm - Retrieves group details from your OIDC provider

Remove the LDAP dependency and adapt to more current authentication/authorization models using OpenID/OAuth2 features. Currently, although we can authenticate with Azure AD, there's still a dependency on using LDAP for group association. Ideally, ...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

A very high volume of messages written to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server.

It has been found that the writing of a very high volume of messages to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server. In this case, the z/OS Connect product running within a Liberty server was w...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

UrbanCode Deploy – Support for JIT Provisioning and User Sync with OIDC/SAML

Customer SMBC has implemented UrbanCode Deploy 7.2.3 with OIDC authentication via Microsoft Entra ID.While OIDC authentication works, the current product lacks: Just-In-Time (JIT) user provisioning – automatic creation of user accounts at first lo...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

TLS 1.3 support with TLS 1.2 fallback

We need in tWAS 8.5.5 support for TLS 1.3 as well as TLS 1.2 for a fallback option.
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional Delivered

Deliver fixes for last three LTS versions by default, not two

Because 24.0.0.6 is still in support at time of writing (2025-12-09), we requested ifixes for this version. However, it would be feasible that the ifixes would be delivered for the last three versions by default, so we would not need to ask for th...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Add funtionality to Liberty so Handling of WAR manifest class paths is the same between tWAS and Liberty Deployments

Useful for anyone trying to migrate from tWAS to Liberty using ear files with mainfest class path outside WAR. Behavior difference between WAS traditional and Liberty regarding the handling of WAR manifest class paths. In WAS traditional, class pa...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Liberty z/OS - SyncToOSThread available for EJBs

We would like to have the SyncToOSThread implemented also to the EJBs. Unfortunally the Liberty code does not look at the EJB deployment descriptors for the env-entry to enable SyncToOSThread, only within the webapp (WAR) deployment descriptors. T...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Support of Servlet API 3.1 on WebSphere 8.5.5

SSA has a large traditional WAS footprint (on Z and distributed systems) and an upgrade is going to take a large effort .The ask is for a fixpack to support Struts 6 with support for Servlet 3.1 .There may be other customers also that may be impac...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional Delivered

AES-256 Encryption support for OpenLiberty in MoRE

AES-256 Encryption, is not supported in MoRE as of now. It’s supported by tWAS and WAS Liberty but not in OpenLiberty. CITI does not use XOR Encryption and cannot disable Encryption. There is a need of AES-256 Encryption and without this CITI cann...
6 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java Planned for future release

Add ISPF statistics to datasets deployed through IDD

Users want to be able to see deploy created/changed timestamps when looking at the dataset member on the target libraries. I think this should be provided by the Deploy Dataset plugin step.
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

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