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WebSphere Liberty

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Bring your own AES-256 key for Liberty Secrets

This feature will allow customers to bring their own AES 256 key by providing it as a base64 string in a new property (at the time of writing (wlp.aes.encryption.key)
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Delivered

Liberty z/OS - SyncToOSThread available for EJBs

We would like to have the SyncToOSThread implemented also to the EJBs. Unfortunally the Liberty code does not look at the EJB deployment descriptors for the env-entry to enable SyncToOSThread, only within the webapp (WAR) deployment descriptors. T...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Support for sessionAffinity in WebsphereLibertyApplication CRD

Running Liberty in RedHat Openshift enables session stickyness. This must be set on the service spec. To do that with the Liberty operator is not possible. So the property must be added to the operator. need sessionAffinity, see the doc : https://...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Delivered

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 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

featureUtility could recognise no_proxy or NO_PROXY

featureUtility runs into a very long timeout when a proxy is set, but the configured repo is not reachable via this proxy. https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/issues/23684
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Support FIPS 140-3 in WebSphere Liberty Core with IBM Semeru 21

Existing 140-2 support is becoming deprecated and certification is available for IBM Semeru Java for FIPS 140-3. Futhermore Java 8 we are currently using will reach EOS in 2025. We would like to move to IBM Semeru Java 21 for WebSphere Liberty and...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 5 Delivered

Add support for tolerations in Liberty Operator

Environment: Websphere Liberty on Openshift We need our Liberty pods to run on dedicated nodes in our clusters and crucially keep all other pods away from these nodes. (The Liberty pods are just a small part of our total number of pods in the clus...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

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...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

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 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered