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WebSphere Liberty

Graceful pause of CICS liberty port to prevent transaction loss

When a CICS liberty port was paused, we found that some API transactions are abended. We understand that when the port was paused, the TCP listener stops accepting NEW connections immediately. The channel destruction happens quickly which means th...
4 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

websphere liberty password identification if encoded with custom aes key or default key

Hi Team, From 26.0.0.3 custom aes key implementation is enforced. https://openliberty.io/blog/2025/12/02/25.0.0.12.html#aes256 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=slia-supplying-your-own-aes-256-key-password-encryption Now as earlie...
7 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted

Websphere liberty AES256 custom key in xml not secured

Issue Details From 26.0.0.3 Default key usage is removed from Liberty for usage along with securityUtility command for AES256 encoding of passwords New Solution delivered in 25.0.0.12 for appending our own custom AES key for encryption of password...
20 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Need ability to visualize MDB activity and performance in Liberty - MODIFY DISPLAY,WORK

Have historically made use of  MDB's in addition to HTTP driven services in tWAS , but after starting the migration to Liberty we have no means to actively i real time visualize performance or  even occurrence of activity regarding MDB's...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Needs more information

Adaptive Connection Pool Throttling based on Latency

In high-load environments, when a backend resource (like a JMS) starts slowing down, the standard behavior of a connection pool is to open more connections to handle the queue, up to the maxPoolSize. This often creates a "death spiral" where the i...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Port the DISPLAY,ADAPTER,REGISTRATIONS and DISPLAY,ADAPTER from WAS on Z to Liberty Z

In WAS we are able to display the WOLA registrations between WAS and CICS. Looking to add the same functionality to Liberty on Z . We have automation around this command in WAS, as we move to Liberty , looking to replicate that process in Liberty.
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Custom name for cache names

In several client, that they use liberty in their legacy or containerized deployments, when it use cache store with infinispan or others ( database, data grid, etc...) it will be useful the feature to customized the cache name, becasuse will be mo...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Suport RMI/IIOP/ORB co-location optimization

If an application uses an EJB Remote interface instead of a local interface, and if the EJB is in the same JVM, each EJB call needs another thread in the Default Executor thread pool because the Liberty Yoko ORB does not support the optional co-lo...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Liberty Profile on z/OS provides the way to surface resource adapter health

Currently, Liberty Profile on z/OS provides MODIFY command for Display information, including status, for each pause capable component on the server as below:MODIFY [jobname.].identifier,status,details If the command is issued for MDB message endp...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Update z/OS Logging to support wildcards in message specification e.g. CWKK* or CWKK10%%

For automation we require certain error messages in z/OS Connect (A liberty application) to be routed to the system log. The current specification for hardCopyMessage and wtoMessage as part of the Configuration properties for logging on z/OS see h...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Needs more information