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WebSphere Liberty

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Expose com.ibm.ws.uow.embeddable.UOWManager for Application access

An application may need to access transaction manager in order to suspend and resume the current thread's transaction programmatically. This feature could be achieved through UowManager in Websphere Traditional. But, Liberty provides a UoWManager ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

imcl not usable if usrprf has password *none

We started using ansible for managing our ibm i platform. We host a large websphere environment on it. I started to do the updates of Express and liberty via ansible. The first approaches did not work because of imcl complaining about the ansible ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

batchManagerZos stop operation

A batchjob in z/OS thats using batchManagerZos indirectly calls a Liberty server for starting up a java batch job. Today, STOP operation will only stops the wrapper job, not the actual batchjob running in Liberty server. We require that a stop req...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Extra security check against requests from users who are already authenticated

After a user is authenticated, there are still checks against the server's guest id to the EJBROLE profiles. This can cause, in some cases, excessive logging of unexpected, but valid, failures against the server's guest id and the EJBROLE profiles...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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...
about 7 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'...
over 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...
over 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...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration