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WebSphere Liberty

Instana for z/OS (zAPM) Tracing support for WOLA on Liberty

We are currently using WebSphere z/OS with WOLA (OTMA CI) to access IMS transactions and this is our major way into IMS. We are considering migrating to WebSphere Liberty z/OS. We have Instana Distributed as an observability solution and are inter...
17 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Terminate the Liberty server when a stop server request is received while MDB application has been running longer than the configured timeout value.

Backgrounds Customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/OS t...
19 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Implement a function to detect hanging MDB applications and interrupt their execution.

Backgrounds Customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/OS t...
19 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

API for creating LTPA keys file

Liberty docs recommend to place the same ltpa.keys file to any liberty node reachable by your loadbalancer. For automated deployments, creation via Java API (liberty feature) is feasible. Please provide a feature (or extend PasswordUtilityies-1.0 ...
23 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Increase the read limit on ClearQuest multiline strings through OSLC

IBM ClearQuest truncates multiline text fields retrieved by OSLC to 2000 characters by default. This size can be changed on the server. My understanding is that OSLC does not enforce a hard limit even though implementations like ClearQuest can tru...
26 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Add support for Personal Access Tokens to authenticate with the OSLC REST API

It is very common for applications with REST APIs to support Personal Access Tokens (PATs). They act as a secure, user-level alternative to standard passwords for authenticating scripts, CLI tools, and integrations. PATs allow users to connect ext...
26 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

MDB requests can be displayed by MODIFY [jobname.]identifier,DISPLAY,WORK command in WAS Liberty

Backgrounds The customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS Traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS Traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

New configuration to disable error BadPaddingException when server starts with different keystore_password

Due to the changes in WAS Liberty 26.0.0.4 "LTPA keysPassword default value removal" and setting keystore_password, we now get error BadPaddingException on each new server startup, because the password in keystore_password differs from the default...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Jakarta EE Spec for Apache Kafka Similar to Jakarta Messaging JMS

This idea is really an evolution of where I see JEE needing to add capabilities which are not present compared to other competitive solution libraries like https://spring.io/projects/spring-kafka. OpenLiberty (https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/li...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

certifying the WebSphere Liberty operator into the RedHat Catalog

Requesting new ideas to facilitate the certification of the WebSphere Liberty Operator in the Red Hat Catalog. This certification is important as the operator is essential for enabling the Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) on the OpenShi...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review