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WebSphere Liberty

OAS3 feature environment should allow any single API Specification to be retrieved to the client upon request rather than a merged document

When running z/OS Connect under the OAS2 feature in a z/OS Server with multiple APIs deployed, you can issue a request to z/OS Connect to retrieve the swagger specification from the server for the specific API you request. However under the z/OS C...
7 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

WAS for z/OS Liberty reconnects to RRS when RRS is terminated and restarted.

Backgrounds Customer is planning to migrate from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty and is validating whether or not there are some incompatibility, and also there are no problem through the extensive testing. When customer conducted...
13 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

password decoding funcationality via command line instead of application

no need to install the application explicitly to decode the password and helpful during critical situations when in need to validating passwords. SImilar to traditional websphere even if we have funcationality to decode the password it would be he...
27 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Enabling to specify wild card for hardCopyMessage and/or wtoMessage elements in zosLogging property

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 the two products. We understand that WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS L...
28 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Allow liberty to resolve domain names via DNS

Currently we are providing domain name resolution via the hosts file in the liberty path. But this requires manual changes every time a domain name is added.
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Functionality already exists

On z/OS, provide an alternative to protecting an LTPA key that does not require a password.

To provide a much more secure method of implementing LTPA keys on z/OS utilizing the security applicable to Mainframe.On z/OS, provide an alternative to protecting an LTPA key that does not require a password.
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

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...
about 2 months 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...
about 2 months 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 ...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

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