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WebSphere Liberty

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Liberty Member SSLCertificate auto renewal

The Liberty Collective Controller does not auto renew Liberty Member Certificates.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

SSL Certificate Management for Liberty Profile. Certificate expiry Alerting and Certificate Renewal

WAS Liberty Profile requires SSL expiry monitoring and alerting. SSL Certificates are usually valid for many years, and the expiry dates of certificates are often missed, until the system fails due to expired certificates.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty profile - Allow passing of variables to "include" elements in server.xml

WebSphere Liberty profile provides use of "include" elements and variables in the server.xml. However, the variables can only have one value - the last assigned value to the variable overrides all previous. This precludes the use of different vari...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Administration and application traffic on different ports

For better security, an application server's application traffic can be initiated from the web server in the DMZ, but it should not be possible for administration traffic. For Liberty profile, it is difficult to achieve.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Restrict which http method can be called

For better security, it should be possible to configure what http methods can be used to access an application. For example, application 1 may only allow http get/put. Application 2 may disallow http options. This applies to both traditional WAS a...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Liberty Collective security must support SAF keyrings and certificates that SSA will furnish, with no requirements for Subje

RFE REQUIREMENT 1: DESCRIPTION: Collective security requires certificates and keystores outside the scope of the configuration specified by the server.xml. The certificates require specific Subject Distinguished Name (DN) values as a way to commun...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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.
over 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...
over 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...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration