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WebSphere Liberty

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Display the Keyring in the JOBLOG for Liberty servers running on z/OS

Currently we can't see what Keyring the Liberty servers are using from the JOBLOG in SDSF. This would help us see what Keyrings need to be updated with renewed certificates rather than manually checking the Liberty server files.
8 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Install diagnostic features by default when using features.sh with the Liberty kernel base image

If the Liberty kernel base image is used to build a container (e.g. icr.io/appcafe/websphere-liberty:kernel-java17-openj9-ubi) and features.sh is used to install the necessary features from the server XML file(s), then, usually, potentially requir...
15 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Needs more information

Liberty z/OS MQ jms credentials propagation

Hello IBM, We have applications which run in Liberty z/OS and communicate with MQ by bindings (memory to memory). We would expect that these applications would send the end-user credentials to MQ. The same applications run in WAS z/OS traditional ...
19 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Under review

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...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

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://...
9 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Future consideration

Upgrade Jandex Version to Support the Latest Persistent Format Version to Shorten CDI scanning processing

We are addressing the Java version-up project and have a problem of taking about at least 12 minutes to start Liberty in the development environment (Eclipse), which means that development productivity cannot be increased and fundamental measures ...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Host an IBM-per-Customer Maven-Repository to download the WLP license files

Currently, downloading the WLP license files (base/core) requires manual steps: Logging in to IBM Browsing through Download Central Clicking through a set of sites Downloading the license Verifying the signature Re-Uploading to our internal reposi...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

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 ...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

COH Add Thread status log entries to Liberty code - Equivalent of TWas Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat

Traditional WebSphere had a configuration setting (Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat) that instructed it to log details about its thread pool usage e.g. the number of hung threads/size of the pool. Liberty does not have this functionality. Liberty on...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration