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WebSphere Liberty

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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

Mime type WOFF isn't supported on Liberty

WebSphere Liberty doesn't support the mime type for WOFF fonts out of the box. This can be set manually but automatic handling would provide a better customer experience.
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Document and/or simplify how to configure 2 liberty appservers for remote EJB communication on the same host

IBM documentation exists on how to develop applications for remote EJB support in Liberty whit Full JE7 support. However, it is not clear from the documentation/tools how to configure 2 liberty appservers on the same host to enable one JVM to call...
about 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

SRVE0232E: Internal Server Error - liberty version 8.5.5.0

liberty_version = "8.5.5.0" - Error when there is a special character in URL (for domain) like '%' (e.g. - http://localhost:9080/mrm/s1%/login ). SRVE0232E: Internal Server Error. Exception Message: [URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Allow encoded password on securityUtility createSSLCertificate

The securityUtility createSSLCertificate command requires a password that can only be in plain text. We'd like the ability to specify a password that is already encoded by the securityUtility encode command -- similar to the way in which encoded p...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Proper CDI Interceptor/Decorator support for Web Service container

To enable proper Interceptor/Decorator support for Web Service bean, and also for the singleton manage beans injected to the Web Service bean. Currently, 1. For Web Service bean, Interceptor does not work. 2. For managed beans injected to the Web ...
almost 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Is a defect

Configuration carry over from traditional WAS to Liberty

My team alone support 80 applications which run on traditional WAZ, across 1000+ Linux boxes. Since traditional WAS does not support java11 and above, they need to be migrated to Liberty. Many ancient apps with complicate resources. WAS has tool t...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

In IBM Web Administration for i, when configuring TLS, automatically generate and display the next available TLS port.

This would be very helpful for anyone trying to configure TLS for IWS. It is necessary to apply a unique port that is available. Determining an available port is very difficult for an IBM i admin user to do. The current process is to use NETSTAT o...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow Liberty to bind to unix file sockets

Dear community, we do have many applications on a vast number of network interfaces (if/eth) per unix host. In case we need fail-over, we assign multiple ports per application (e.g. 8000, 8001 for application 'a' and 8002 for application 'b'). Th...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration