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WebSphere Liberty

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webAppSecurity ssoCookieName should be used by liberty features

For Liberty Server. When using webAppSecurity ssoCookieName, it works fine for applications in the container, but requests from features, such as /IBMJMXConnectorREST/ are still using ltpaToken2. This is mostly an unwanted behaveiour. If the want ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Provide option to stop Liberty server when application fails to start

For Digital Commerce, we are dockerizing all applications. Application life cycle ties to docker container life cycle. When the application fails to start, the container should also fail, so the orchestrator can notice the failure, then a new cont...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Adding "Authenticate when any URI is accessed" in WebSphere Liberty Profile

Adding feature available in WebSphere Application Server full profile "Authenticate when any URI is accessed" to WebSphere Liberty Profile. Require this function to enforce websphere security for commercial off the shelves applications that doesn'...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

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...
over 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

allow an endpoint to validate a JWT from two different OPs that have different issuers and different keys

an enhancement to allow an endpoint to validate a JWT from two different OPs that have different issuers and different keys
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration