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[On Hold] Need ability to visualize MDB activity and performance in Liberty - MODIFY DISPLAY,WORK

Have historically made use of  MDB's in addition to HTTP driven services in tWAS , but after starting the migration to Liberty we have no means to actively i real time visualize performance or  even occurrence of activity regarding MDB's...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Custom name for cache names

In several client, that they use liberty in their legacy or containerized deployments, when it use cache store with infinispan or others ( database, data grid, etc...) it will be useful the feature to customized the cache name, becasuse will be mo...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Suport RMI/IIOP/ORB co-location optimization

If an application uses an EJB Remote interface instead of a local interface, and if the EJB is in the same JVM, each EJB call needs another thread in the Default Executor thread pool because the Liberty Yoko ORB does not support the optional co-lo...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Liberty Profile on z/OS provides the way to surface resource adapter health

The concern is that ServerEndpointControl.isActive() continues to return true even after all reconnection attempts have failed and the MDB is no longer able to consume messages. The updated problem statement is described below. Environment The MDB...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Cache support/implementation in RIT/RTVS for repeated requests to improve performance virtualization

Current Environment Deployment: Rational Test Virtualization Server (RTVS) with Agents and RTCP Primary Use Case: Performance virtualization and high‑volume performance testing Business Problem In the current setup, during performance and load tes...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization Future consideration

Enhanced Security with External Secrets Integration

## Summary Request an IBM Liberty enhancement to let applications (including IBM Dynamic Workload Console running on Liberty) reference database credentials from an external secrets source (e.g., CyberArk/HashiCorp Vault) or secure system store. T...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

usage-based licensing model for WebShpere Liberty

I have received requests from two customers, who are using Liberty, to provide a usage-based licensing model that can accommodate dynamic capacity scaling in cloud environments. I also occasionally receive inquiries from other customers asking whe...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Enable mpMetric feature out of the box

The current implementation of MoRE does not implement the mpMetrics feature for the Liberty servers. Therefore there is no way to get performance metrics from the Liberty servers so the customers are basically "blind" regarding the performance met...
12 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java Future consideration

Provide ability to reset stub hit count

When interpreting stub usage metrics via the default dashboard it would help if the counts can be reset without having to stop and restart the stub.
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization Future consideration

Maintain all the artifacts in embedded jdk that comes with WAS 8.5.5

Per the technote, the Java orb.properties, java.policy, and cacerts files are non-serviceable in WAS v8.5.5 (e.g. they are not updated). The files are serviceable in the Java SDK provided for WAS 9.0 and Liberty. WebSphere Application Server Java ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional Future consideration