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WebSphere Liberty

Request refresh_token support in the WebSphere Liberty openidConnectClient.

We need refresh_token support in the WebSphere Liberty openidConnectClient to better handle re-auth during AJAX requests.
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Provide a stop/resume command for persistent timer execution in WLP

In Liberty Persistent Timer execution can be started/stopped by changing the server.xml enableTaskExecution attribute to true/false. This requires a reload of the configuration (which by default is automatic, but can be configured to mbean or disa...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support AWSSecretsManagerPostgreSQLDriver on WebSphere Liberty for AWS - EKS deployments

Deployment of an application on Websphere Liberty that uses AWS Secret Manager for password rotation. The IBM ODM team (Russell Scher) worked on this request and received some feedback from Fred Rowe in relation to the issue.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

Provide a feature for Dynamic IP restriction settings for IBM Websphere Liberty server

Our product runs on bundled IBM Liberty Server. The version of the Liberty that gets deployed with the product is “WebSphere Application Server 19.0.0.8/wlp-1.0.31.cl190820190813-1136”.Currently IBM Websphere Liberty does not provide any mechanism...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Support FIPS 140-2 for Websphere Liberty (Java 17 or later) on Windows OS

Support FIPS(The Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 for Websphere Liberty with IBM Semeru Runtime Java 17 or later on Windows OS. Liberty has already supported it on RHEL platform, but not on Windows. If not, Liberty cannot win all pla...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Allow usage of z/OSMF JWT tokens by multiple sessions using the same user ID

We are using new APIs to obtain JWT tokens (/zosmf/services/authenticate) from our automated scripts that use other z/OSMF REST APIs with the obtained. After the script completes, it calls the DELETE method to invalidate the token that it obtained...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty zOS - add capability to selectivity use mapDistributedIdentities via TAI

Provide way to let Liberty on zOS be configured so that can selectivity specify that some validated users are mapped to RACF but others use other security set up in Liberty such as an external LDAP Further detail: Provide a way to set up the Liber...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Need IBM websphere liberty core images ready to use, to deploy on openshift.

We want to have websphere liberty core UBI images At this time only kernel or full edition are available: ibmcom/websphere-liberty - Docker Image | Docker Hub kernel-java8-openj9-ubi kernel-java8-ibmjava-ubi kernel-java11-openj9-ubi kernel-java17-...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Liberty thin client for JMS

Our product uses the JMS support within Liberty to publish messages that can be subscribed to by clients (Eclipse plug-in or Ant build) to get feedback on long running processes. Currently we rely on the WAS thin client for JMS to provide this cap...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

pluginConfiguration - functionality to change the LogLevel during plugin generation

We are running Liberty z/OS and we would like to set the Loglevel in logs/state/plugin-cfg.xml file https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/zos?topic=SS7K4U_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.autogen.nd.doc/ae/rwlp_config_pluginConfiguration.html p...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration