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WebSphere Liberty

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Provide Daily Log File Handler for WebSphere Liberty Profile

Many customers have a need to perform a daily rollover of their logfiles (and archive them on a daily basis). So far this is not available out-of-the-box with WebSphere Liberty Profile. It would be great if we would have/implement a solution in th...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Allow the use of host sytem environment variables in server.env: Shell and variable expansion should be supported

System: WebSphere Liberty Profile Actor: Automated deployment relying on config information provided by runtime platform (i.e. linux server or container) As WebSphere Liberty is heavily used in cloud contexts, configuration options that need to be...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Liberty does not limit the number of ffdc log files

WAS allows you to set ExceptionFileMaximumAge https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/ae/ttrb_ffdcconfig.html. But there is no equivalent option on Liberty. As a result, the number of files in ffdc directo...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Transaction peer recovery for WAS Liberty

We need peer recovery for transactions in Liberty ready for the Cloud.
about 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Liberty Datasource Testing validation

Datasource Test connection features to be added in the admin center to validate the datasource configuration which has associated all the Liberty collective members
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Support various login configurations at once in WebSphere Liberty Profile

UIs provided by Java EE applications running in WebSphere Liberty Profile should establish the current user security context based on a MP-JWT provided by security proxy that has already authenticated the user and loaded his user groups from some ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Allow arbitrary HTTP response headers set in server.xml

It would be useful if the setting of some HTTP response headers like X-FRAME-OPTIONS or Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) could be set via server.xml rather than being set in the application (e.g. servlet filter) for cases when no Proxy is in front...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Support to obtain the role information from the access token / OIDC configuration

Human2web authorization is built by ODM based on Id_token and access_token is not considered. Only when we configure with a variable/key from Id_token, authorization works. Custom customer system do not have any groups/roles/claims as part of id_t...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Delivered

logstashCollector feature should collect the remote user of HTTP request for access log

Per talking with WAS development team, the current logstashCollector feature only collects the following fields, which doesn't include the remote user. this.uriPath = uriPath; this.requestMethod = requestMethod; this.queryString = queryString; thi...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

make authCache distributed within a Collective or a predefined set of servers

After migrating from WAS ND Classic with use of TAI and Custom Subject/Custom Cache key to Liberty the use of Liberty collectives has shown that, even with SSO login with LTPA configured, a new login is forced when accessing a server not beeing th...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 6 Delivered