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WebSphere Liberty

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

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...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under 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...
4 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.
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Websphere Liberty Password Encoding with AES need to add tags like {aes256} to differentiate passwords from {aes} which is aes128

Websphere Liberty Password Encoding with AES need to add tags like {aes256} to differentiate passwords from {aes} which is aes128 All the users who are using websphere liberty will benficial as its easiest way to differentiate the aes passwords fr...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

That HttpServletRequest getRequestURL(); should return protocol based on what kind of connection it is and not based on a incoming http header X-Forwarded-Proto:

if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain invalid value such as https if the connection is really a http connection getRequestURL should return http and not https and if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain https,http only the the value that match the connection should...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

How can we configure Liberty so that only specific URL patterns use OIDC, and all others bypass OIDC and fall back to BasicAuth—even if the JWT contains the same issuer?

We are using a single z/OS Connect server instance. After applying the OIDC configuration on the server, we observed that requests whose URL patterns do not match the configured OIDC scopes — but still contain a JWT in any header — do not fall bac...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

adding/renaming clusters via admincenter

is it possible to add some administrative features like adding or renaming clusters details from the admincenter
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

option to pass Liberty Batch joblog path

Hi IBM, In order to view joblogs of server I need to login into Admin Center Java Batch console of that server and incase of multi executor environment it will hard to identify on which executor job ran and login into that server admin center to v...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Open Liberty : Reporting on jwt ALG usage

This ties to the Issue Reporting on jwt ALG usage #33270 raised on gitHub for Open Liberty. Please feel free to re-allocate to another Workspace if required. Describe the use case that you want to enable: The request to to report on ALG settings w...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration