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My ideas: WebSphere Liberty

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Query Liberty edition based on features

WebSphere Liberty has different pricing models, such as Liberty core and base, where each edition has a different set of features (base being a superset of core). Customers that start from kernel and grow their installation using installationManag...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow environment variables in the plugin-cfg.xml file

Our customer is evaluating WebSphere Liberty 18.0.0.3 using the latest version v9.0.0.0 IHS + PLUGIN tar instalation package to develop an architecture for running WebSphere Liberty in a containerized environment. When we run the "pluginUtility ge...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Liberty Member SSLCertificate auto renewal

The Liberty Collective Controller does not auto renew Liberty Member Certificates.
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Expose messaging engine metrics to mpMetrics/micrometer

The messaging engine contains a lot of capabilities which can be exposed via mpMetrics. Example: There is a file store configuration associated. The level of space used would be an appropriate metrics and probably the most valuable one. Other metr...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Option to configure OIDCClient to pass the sessionID in a more secure manner

We have learned from our security team that the session ID for the /oidcclient/redirect/azureclient URL is being passed in the URL using clear text. I had opened a case with WAS support to see how the issue could be mitigated by sending sessionID ...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty zOS - improve process to determine when mapped userid does not have access to APPL

Hi in Liberty on zOS, when authenticating to an application using a client certificate, the client certificate is mapped to a RACF user id. To be able to invoke the application, the mapped RACF user id needs to have READ access to the APPL class. ...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Provide an option that allows WebSphere Liberty database pool to maintain a minNumber of "warm" connections.

The current configuration options that are available in WLP do not allow for maintaining a minPoolSize number of connections in a given connection pool. Any events of connection aging (for example timeouts that can occur on the WLP side as well as...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Helm artifactory for Liberty Operator

Most of the OEM software are packaged with helm. By having the helm artifactory, Liberty operator can be deployed in any flavor of kubernetes using helm deployment tool.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

The JAX-WS and CXF code in Liberty does not cache any SSL socket connections for reuse

The JAX-WS and CXF code in Liberty does not cache any SSL socket connections for reuse. We probably have you to open RFE for this issue. our L3 are trying to recreate the issue locally to get more information.This RFE is based on above comment fro...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration