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WebSphere Liberty

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transient folder in wlp

Liberty supports password encryption. IBM advice is to load the encryption key via a bootstrap.properties file include that loads the key from a file system outside the wlp directory path. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSD28V_9.0.0/c...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the dynamicRouting setup and genPluginCfg commands to set piped logger for plugin log

Enhance the dynamicRouting setup and genPluginCfg commands so the plugin log location can refer to a piped logger. This is related to RFE 94444 which implemented something similar. Today, when dynamicRouting is used to generate plugin config files...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support timeout at the request-level

We are planning to use Liberty for running online transactions on mainframe.The model is going to be: Consumer -- > Web server (on z/) -- > Liberty app server (on z/).As we understand, the request from the Web server first arrives at a Globa...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Request Metrics for Liberty

Liberty does not supply the amount of statistics that tWAS allows. It would be useful to have a feature similar to tWAS's Request Metrics that prints out the time certain components took in processing, like JDBC times, EJB execution times, etc.
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Liberty: Limit the number of pending requests

Our deployment has a web-services layer in Liberty connected to COBOL programs using JCICS. If the arrival rate of the requests is higher than the service rate of the servers the requests are queued in Liberty. If the clients time-out, the request...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

API to get the connection to the JobRepository

The current implementation of the JSR-352 (Java Batch) in WebSphere Liberty Profile requires to have both a connection to the JobRepository and to the business data for chunk processing. As a consequence the system always needs a global transactio...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty Server Maven suport: There is no goal to clean a deployment from the dropins directory

There is no goal to clean a deployment from the dropins directory If one of more applications is installed with liberty:install-apps, there is no goal to uninstall these
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Liberty Profile on Beaglebone Black

Please consider support of the IBM JDK and Liberty Profile on Beaglebone Black. Headless support will suffice, but utility libraries to access the hardware would be nice (already using purejavacomm a.o.)
about 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

web applications within an EAR should be treated as single entities with regards to changes

If I make changes to a web application that is contained within an EAR the Liberty profile will consider that as a change on the EAR level instead of the web application level and restart the entire EAR instead of the affected ServletContext.This ...
about 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

I want to vote for LIBERTY-I-74. I cannot see it to vote directly because it was submitted by an IBM employee: James Pickel <pickel@us.ibm.com> I want to easily be able to tie DB2 work in JAVA using a Type-4 driver back to a CICS transaction in Liberty.

Easier performance tuning. Easier issue resolution. Easier chargeback computations. Easier userid/password maintenance.
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration