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WebSphere Liberty

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Support selecting JWT signature and decryption algorithms from JOSE header

For OIDC, mpJwt, etc., the algorithms are currently specified via the configuration in the server.xml or mp config properties file. This limits the configuration of those features to one specific algorithm. If the JWT is signed using a different a...
27 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Not last 2 but last 3 LTS versions should be udpated.

Our idea is that for the update strategy for the Liberty Container Images not only the last 2 LTS versions should be updated, but the last 3 versions. In our company we only bring every half a year new Liberty Version to production and in between ...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Allow JNDI as a mpConfig configuration source to allow encryption of secrets

Currently, it is not clear whether any configuration source can benefit from the liberty encryption.If this was possible, the secrets could be stored on disk in an encrypted way. I know JNDI properties can be encrypted, so let's add JNDI to the ex...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

multiple jwksUri in configuration file jwt_sso_mdm.xml

As IWS admin we would like to set up primary and backup console to be connected with primary and backup MDM using SSO and openID authentication. Right now only one console can be connected with one MDM so during the failover we have to manually re...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

support  syncToOSThread for J2C connections for CICS on Websphere Liberty for Z/OS

This idea is to get it on product roadmap after discussion with PM .Previous submitted idea : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TWAS-I-255 Feature Summary Social Security Administration (SSA )uses tWas 8.5 on Z/os and is migrating to Liberty with Identi...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Implementing WSSubject.getRootLoginException() in Liberty

We are migrating an existing JEE application from WebSphere Traditional to Liberty, and the current application has a custom user registry module. In WebSphere Traditional, we can call WSSubject.getRootLoginException() to get the root cause of log...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Improve and simplify the setup of Liberty InstantOn including a better step-to-step guide

The openliberty.io page is great to provide some guidance on implementing Liberty InstantOn. The problem I find is the guide is a little too high level. I had to restort to much searching to find githib labs and other documents to actually complet...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Better error reporting for Liberty InstantOn

I have been working with WebSphere Liberty InstantOn in OpenShift on the X86 and Power-10 platforms. One of the most challenging aspects revolves around the error reporting of both OpenShift errors and more specifically the CRIU errors. It has bee...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

A very high volume of messages written to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server.

It has been found that the writing of a very high volume of messages to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server. In this case, the z/OS Connect product running within a Liberty server was w...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Future consideration

We would like to have an SMF-record written for every MDB-request executed in a Liberty server

In traditional WAS we make use of the 120.9 record to analyze our different kind of WAS-load, regarding problem determination, cpu consumption, performance and transaction volumes.We want to do the same in Liberty, but are there delimited by just ...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration