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WebSphere Liberty

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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 ...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Liberty Act Spec with destinationRef using reference to App context variable

Trying to set an MDB with an activation specification that references a JMS Destination Definition that is set in the application does not work. The issue appears to be the server.xml configuration is trying to do the lookup before the application...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

WebSphere Liberty support for new z/OS Security feature

z/OS plans new support for security interoperation and would like WebSphere liberty to support it too
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Missing http and/or https ports causes dynamic routing to fail

When using a collective controller with dynamic routing the IHS Plugin will receive an HTTP 500, an NPE on the collective controller, when a collective member either does not have or has invalid values in for the http and/or https ports. This can ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Is a defect

Case TS000802401 RE: PMR 30270,000,834 - Info needed to configure the WLP access log timestamp

We wanted to configure the WLP access log timestamp with micro seconds . Apache Link:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_log_config.htmlusec_frac microsecond fractionDoes WLP support usec_frac ? As per IBM PMR team, WLP does not have the ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

<cors> element should allow circumvention of authorization check for pre-flight request

Original conversation in IBM Cloud Slack workspace at https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C30NGTBFS/p1523882393000167. When CORS is turned on and application security is also turned on, the OPTIONS pre-flight can be prohibited by the application ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

authFilter should enable 'and' conditions

In Liberty's configuration for requestUrl, the pattern allows 'or' to combine multiple strings, but not 'and' so does not allow complete boolean logic to be applied to the filter. The filter is used to determine the openidConnectClient configurati...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

scope application role to realm in Liberty

It would be nice to be able to scope an application role to everybody in a particular realm. We are getting our existing J2EE application ready for the bluemix cloud as a SaaS offering using IBM ID as the authentication mechanism. We would like to...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Assign Admin traffic to a separate admin vhost

WebSphere Liberty Admin applications use the same default vhost used by applications.
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Loading data source for @DataSourceDefinition from application in Liberty

Most Java EE servers support loading the data source that's used with @DataSourceDefiniton or the data-source tag from the application archive. WAS Liberty however does not support this. I'd like to propose to add support for this.
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration