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WebSphere Liberty

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Add ICSF Use Count to SMF 123 records

Add the ICSF use count (ICSF*CRYPTO*INSTRUCTONS*COUNT) to the SMF123 records for z/OS Connect EE API counts. This is important to track the impact of requestor configurations like "idletimeout" values on the number of calls to the ICSF service whe...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Create a command to clear JWK Cache/Publickeys

We are experiencing an issue with zOS Connect/Liberty where the JSON Web Keys (JWKs) cached from a specific jwkEndpointUrl are not being refreshed unless there is a server recycle. This issue arises because our JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) do not use a ...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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.
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow to change the encoding of messages.log

Our Web applcation works in the z/OS CICS Liberty environment. We see only "???" (question signs) instead correct Hebrew text in our audit and trace logs that we redirect to STDOUTR, STDERRR, STDTRCR
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Issue with Liberty WebSpear server

Hello Team, I am trying to run one webService SOAP based application using Apache CXF. I am trying to resolve the following errors, but I could not. On each restart it shows some different error. Please find all these details as below. Same applic...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Is a defect

Client Authentication for Kafka Producer in Liberty Server

Our problem We want to run multiple java programmes (in current use case Kafka-Producers) in a single CICS Liberty Server. Authentication on Kafka-Broker side (hosted on our on-premise cloud) is done by client certificates. Our security department...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

Allow useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource being set at application level

This idea comes from case . z/OSMF has multiple http endpoints. One endpoint needs to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to False while while other endpoints need to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to True. Liberty doe...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Add new option to IBM WAS and Liberty to allow customers to configure WAS/Liberty to not close HTTP connections when WAS/Liberty are sending back response where the HTTP response code is greater than 399

We are making heavy use of IBM z/OS Connect and IBM z/OSMF. We have found that when a request fails in zCEE and zOSMF, the underlying Liberty product sends back a HTTP response code greater than 399 and closes the HTTP connection from the client. ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

Clients have requested this capability. It would round out the filesystem consuming controls by giving stdout and stderr the same log filesystem space consumption as messages.log

Clients have requested this capability. It would round out the filesystem consuming controls by giving stdout and stderr the same log filesystem space consumption as messages.log It should be possible to redirect Liberty server's stdout and stderr...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Add support for ignoring unknown elements in SOAP response

We run an application on Liberty that performs SOAP-based API calls to a third party API. The API changes frequently and adds new elements to the response, which breaks our application until we update our client code as well. When previously deplo...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration