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WebSphere Liberty

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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 8 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.
almost 9 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...
almost 9 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...
about 9 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 11 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 11 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 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Make compression feature extensible

Currently, Liberty only supports gzip and deflate, as already stated in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LIBERTY-I-144 However, it is impossible for users to add new compressions globally, as the classes are not extensible at all. I think the relevant ...
25 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Allow JNDI as a mpConfig configuration source to allow encryption of secrets

Currently, it is not clear whether any configuration source can benefit from the liberty encryption.If this was possible, the secrets could be stored on disk in an encrypted way. I know JNDI properties can be encrypted, so let's add JNDI to the ex...
25 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect: Background : As part of a firm migration project for one of our bank’s cards, we were required to migrate our z/OS requester API’s to a new external vendo...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted