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WebSphere Liberty

Liberty - Support of MVS modify commands to display status of zosRequestLogging

Liberty to provide support of MVS modify commands to display status of zosRequestLogging (SMF 120 records) similar to what is available today with WASt. Additionally support .enablement/disablement of such logging
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty JSR-352: Liberty Batch needs to provide support for running workloads at different Service Classes

Today under WCG we can run workload under different Service Classes as defined in our WLM policy within the Batch Container. It would appear that under Liberty Profile and JSR-352 all work will run under the Service Class of the Server address space.
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty on z/OS - send audit logs to SMF

Facility to send Liberty Profile Audit logging directly to SMF on z/OS as much of the IBM supplied software for z already does including tWAS.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

SSL Handshake should not fail if CRLDP present in certificate is not reachable

We have observed one behavior in WAS traditional after enabling CRL. When any certificate presented to WAS for authentication and having CRLDP which is not reachable then SSL HANDSHAKE failed with below exception.Caused by: javax.naming.Communicat...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

App expanded folder auto cleanup

When applications deployed to a Liberty server are expanded, e.g. <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> the expanded war and ear files are not deleted when the corresponding application is stopped and removed from the Liberty server.An exp...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Enhance liberty to recover from java.io.IOException: EDC5122I Input/output error. (errno2=0x12AA044F)

TCP socket the Liberty is listening on becomes unusable. This causes connection attempts to the Liberty server to fail. This can happen when the z/OS system is running in a CINET environment (to be able run multiple TCPIP stacks) versus an INET en...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Enable bypass of certificate alternate names verification for inbound requests

Hi Lets supose my My zCEE endpoint is someprefix.mf.jpmchase.net :xxxx/someApi I MUST have someprefix.mf.jpmchase.net in the SAN server certificate, otherwise I don’t get a secure connection. I'd like to add zCEE/Liberty some feature to skip that ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration