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WebSphere Liberty

Docker Build Fails Due to Feature install , Docker Build on N/W

We are using a Full Liberty image as base image to build our Applicaiton Docker image, However when the configure.sh script is excecuted the Build fails as it cannot connect to the feature repo URL while on Office N/W due to proxy and firewall rul...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

Mapping of a role in a JWT token to a technical user ID in SAF/RACF

As of today only WebSphere Liberty on z/OS and z/OS Connect EE (which is also based on WebSphere Liberty on z/OS) can only map the distributed user ID in a JWT token to a mainframe user ID in SAF/RACF. This is a problem when there is no equivalent...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

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 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow wildcard or mutiple entries, on an RDN entry in the controller.xml file

When configuring a collective, in the controller.xml file, we specify a collectiveCertificate rdn value - to allow members and the collector to talk to each other.We user RACF to create and store our certificates, where many of the fields are pre-...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

[Copy] 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 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

When WelcomePage is disabled , Liberty will send 404 response which is missing CSP headers. Out box when WelcomePage is disabled , for any responses Liberty to add CSP policy

For reference [Content-Security-Policy (CSP) Header Quick Reference] ( https://content-security-policy.com/ )------Security-Policy header allows you to restrict which resources (such as JavaScript, CSS, Images, etc.) can be loaded, and the URLs th...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty Member SSLCertificate auto renewal

The Liberty Collective Controller does not auto renew Liberty Member Certificates.
over 10 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...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Improve Error Messaging for Virtual Host Port Mismatch

When the <virtualHost> block is configured to allow traffic only from: <hostAlias>*:9444</hostAlias> but the server is actually listening on port 9443, any attempt by a user to access the application results in the following misl...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Sync more then 999 user through Websphere LDAP connectors

Wer have more then 1000 users in Netcool installation. In RBA we are getting quite often 403 error after 30 minuts since LDAP synchronization stops at 999 user. It would just be nice, if connector would support LDAP v3 protocol with custom option ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration