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WebSphere Liberty

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Add funtionality to Liberty so Handling of WAR manifest class paths is the same between tWAS and Liberty Deployments

Useful for anyone trying to migrate from tWAS to Liberty using ear files with mainfest class path outside WAR. Behavior difference between WAS traditional and Liberty regarding the handling of WAR manifest class paths. In WAS traditional, class pa...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Extend the scope of the maxFiles parameter in logging configuration

As per case TS015417399 when configuring <accessLogging> with maxFiles in WebSphere Liberty the server only deletes old logs of more that maxFiles logs have been created by the currently running process. The current behavior makes the maxFil...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Requesting a Linux/s390x build of the Packaging Utility for Installation Manager

We are interested in setting up local Installation Manager repositories that can be accessed over http/https to provide updates for WebSphere Liberty ND and IBM HTTP server products as described in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/in...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

audit-1.0 does enable /ibm/api

Further analysis indicates that the audit feature includes REST event handling. This inclusion might have inadvertently activated the REST feature, leading to the enabling of /ibm/api. The architects suggested that the new version of audit feature...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Allow to change the encoding of messages.log

Our Web applcation works in the z/OS CICS Liberty environment. We see only "???" (question signs) instead correct Hebrew text in our audit and trace logs that we redirect to STDOUTR, STDERRR, STDTRCR
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

check specific components status in server command

We want an easier way to check the status of an activationSpec programatically. Now we have server command with pause and resume activationSpec capabilities, but we need this to also enable the option to check the status of server components. serv...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Allow useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource being set at application level

This idea comes from case . z/OSMF has multiple http endpoints. One endpoint needs to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to False while while other endpoints need to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to True. Liberty doe...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

DataPower HSM should support RSA-OAEP

The current HSM version in IDGx2 and IDGx3 does not support RSA OAEP padding which is a major issue as the only supported alternative is RSA1_5 (PKCS1-v1_5) which is considered vulnerable. The decryption of an RSA-OAEP or RSA-OAEP-256 encrypted JW...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support FIPS 140-2 for Websphere Liberty (Java 17 or later) on Windows OS

Support FIPS(The Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 for Websphere Liberty with IBM Semeru Runtime Java 17 or later on Windows OS. Liberty has already supported it on RHEL platform, but not on Windows. If not, Liberty cannot win all pla...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration