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WebSphere Liberty

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Enhance parameter binding in EclipseLink

In 2.6.4 of EclipeLink, parameter binding was selective in DatabasePlatform (Db2). On 10/23/2018, 1st problem occurred where arithmetic functions (SQRT, ABS, SUBSTR, etc) were not bound when they were used. APAR PH06475 created and provided "eclip...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Set Liberty Working Directory

Expose a setting to set the Working Directory for a Liberty JVM. Right now it gets set to ${WLP_OUTPUT_DIR}/${SERVER_NAME}. In my environment I would like to set it to ${WLP_OUTPUT_DIR}/${SERVER_NAME}/logs so that heap dumps and log4 logs are with...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Examine X-Forwarded-Proto header in Liberty to support SSL termination at router

Applications in Liberty that require a secure connection, which include the product apps RESTConnector and apiDiscovery, cannot be accessed in environments where SSL termination is performed at the router but private WebSphere headers can't be set...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Request WLP and WLP IHS plugin to have built-in validation mechanism for 2-way SSL inbound request

We would like to request WLP and WLP IHS plugin to have built-in mechanism to verify if request information received by WLP is from trusted WLP IHS plugin and the information has not been altered during transmission.
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Support WebSphere Liberty Operator on OpenShift on Power

Supporting WebSphere Liberty operator on Power to allow for ease of deployment, update, and configuration of Liberty for those moving to OpenShift on Power. Deploying standalone images can be quite difficult, and the Open Liberty Operator has some...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Liberty should generate a certificate which is valid

The default certificate generated by WAS Liberty is not valid, The browser complains because the SAN from Liberty does not match.
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Liberty behind proxy

Many load balancers / reverse proxies implement a defacto-standard set of headers which tells the backend server in question that a request was forwarded through a proxy and gives additional indications on original protocol. A Reverse Proxy common...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Add support for tolerations in Liberty Operator

Environment: Websphere Liberty on Openshift We need our Liberty pods to run on dedicated nodes in our clusters and crucially keep all other pods away from these nodes. (The Liberty pods are just a small part of our total number of pods in the clus...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Option to pass parameters to BELLS feature

The use of bells-1.0 makes it easy to develop and deploy a liberty extension, but often it is very wanted to be able to configure the module. Currently the only way is to share environment variables, but the normal Liberty way is to put properties...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Liberty logging hideMessage= parameter should also stop messages being written to messageLogDD=MSGLOG

The current capability provided by Liberty logging hideMessage= allows a message being written to messages.log file to be suppressed and written to trace.log file instead. When zoslogging messageLogDD=MSGLOG is in use, any messages written to mess...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered