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WebSphere Liberty

Enable installation of versionless features via installUtility

Currently the installation of versionless features over installUtility is not supported. When server.xml contains configuration like: <server> <featureManager onError="WARN"> <platform>javaee-8.0</platform> <feature>...
5 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted

SHA-512 Support in WebSphere Liberty (OpenPages & Cognos)

Within a regulated financial institution in Singapore (an IBM customer), there is an enterprise-wide security mandate requiring the adoption of SHA-512 across all products to meet internal security standards and regulatory expectations. However, b...
10 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Needs more information

Provide automated method to generate licensing tags when clients are not using the Liberty operator for deployment.

Most of our Liberty deployments are done using custom container build pipelines and Helm based deployments. In order to track licensing we need to tag these deployments with required meta data so the license reporter will correctly compute. One of...
17 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Needs more information

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...
27 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

[On Hold] 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 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

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.
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

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