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My ideas: WebSphere Liberty

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Liberty on z/OS - Reduce the size of the SMF 120 subtype 11 User Data section when there is only 1

Today the SMF 120 subtype 11 record is approximately 630 bytes. When a customer or program product writes to the User Data section then the record grows in size by 4.5x as the User Data section has a fixed length of 2048 bytes regardless of how mu...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Allow for setting the cookie path for LtpaToken2 cookie (Security reasons)

We would like the `LtpaToken2` cookie path to be equal to the context root of the web module instead of `/`. For `httpSession` elements, there exists a `useContextRootAsCookiePath` attribute to accomplish this (https://www.ibm.com/support/know...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 5 Delivered

Allow Cloud Native Build Pack for Liberty to use RHEL UBI as a base

For supportability, the CNBP cannot just consume Ubuntu when a customer doesn't implement that OS as a supported OS. Allow us to set the base image for the build to be RHEL UBI (specifically) or any Liberty-supported OS would be even better.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Support LTPA rotation without requiring planned outage

Idea: make Liberty feature parity with traditional WAS to allow LtpaToken key rotation without having to restart the Liberty profile. LtpaToken SSO key rotation in Liberty currently requires a planned outage, unlike traditional WAS which can rotat...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

option to pick multiple jvms within the controller ui to stop/start or to enable maintenance mode

When you have a large amount of hosts with multiple clusters and you need to stop/start and or enable maintenance mode. All of the above those actions have to be done individually for each host and jvm and while doing maintenance. If high availabi...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Delivered

Option to pass parameters to BELLS feature

The use of bells-1.0 makes it easy to develop and deploy a liberty extension, but often it is very wanted to be able to configure the module. Currently the only way is to share environment variables, but the normal Liberty way is to put properties...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

WLP 20.0.0.x EclipseLink DB2Platform no longer binds Literals as Parameters

EclipseLink DB2Platform no longer binds Literals as Parameters (DB2Platform.java#L74 => this.shouldBindLiterals = false;) We are using EclipseLink packaged within Websphere Liberty Profile (WLP) version 20.0.0.x in combination with DB2. WLP 20....
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Delivered

Enhance parameter binding in EclipseLink

In 2.6.4 of EclipeLink, parameter binding was selective in DatabasePlatform (Db2). On 10/23/2018, 1st problem occurred where arithmetic functions (SQRT, ABS, SUBSTR, etc) were not bound when they were used. APAR PH06475 created and provided "eclip...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Liberty logging hideMessage= parameter should also stop messages being written to messageLogDD=MSGLOG

The current capability provided by Liberty logging hideMessage= allows a message being written to messages.log file to be suppressed and written to trace.log file instead. When zoslogging messageLogDD=MSGLOG is in use, any messages written to mess...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Liberty should generate a certificate which is valid

The default certificate generated by WAS Liberty is not valid, The browser complains because the SAN from Liberty does not match.
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered