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WebSphere Liberty

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Support selecting JWT signature and decryption algorithms from JOSE header

For OIDC, mpJwt, etc., the algorithms are currently specified via the configuration in the server.xml or mp config properties file. This limits the configuration of those features to one specific algorithm. If the JWT is signed using a different a...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Planned for future release

Update z/OS Logging to support wildcards in message specification e.g. CWKK* or CWKK10%%

For automation we require certain error messages in z/OS Connect (A liberty application) to be routed to the system log. The current specification for hardCopyMessage and wtoMessage as part of the Configuration properties for logging on z/OS see h...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Needs more information

Deliver fixes for last three LTS versions by default, not two

Because 24.0.0.6 is still in support at time of writing (2025-12-09), we requested ifixes for this version. However, it would be feasible that the ifixes would be delivered for the last three versions by default, so we would not need to ask for th...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Needs more information

Display the Keyring in the JOBLOG for Liberty servers running on z/OS

Currently we can't see what Keyring the Liberty servers are using from the JOBLOG in SDSF. This would help us see what Keyrings need to be updated with renewed certificates rather than manually checking the Liberty server files.
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support for OAuth 2.1 in WebSphere Liberty

Support for OAuth 2.1 in Liberty for CloudPak Foundational Services to adopt. OAuth 2.1 is a more hardened version and it is critical for CPFS to support this for its adopters. CPFS uses Liberty as its OpenID connect provider and its based on OAut...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Suport RMI/IIOP/ORB co-location optimization

If an application uses an EJB Remote interface instead of a local interface, and if the EJB is in the same JVM, each EJB call needs another thread in the Default Executor thread pool because the Liberty Yoko ORB does not support the optional co-lo...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Message (E suffix) Route to z/OS system log

Team, We need our automation to capture the errors which happen during z/OS Connect startup. Current Liberty option enableLogToMVS="true" is unable to route the error messages to z/OS system log if the failure occurs at startup. It would be nice i...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Websphere Liberty Password Encoding with AES need to add tags like {aes256} to differentiate passwords from {aes} which is aes128

Websphere Liberty Password Encoding with AES need to add tags like {aes256} to differentiate passwords from {aes} which is aes128 All the users who are using websphere liberty will benficial as its easiest way to differentiate the aes passwords fr...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Microprofile openapi to use other than the default host

Standard web applications can use virtual hosts in Liberty but feature WEBs such as microprofile openapi can not use the virtual hosts. The requests are being made using the default host name. Could you please make it possible to use the virtual h...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Create a new ROLE in the Admin Centre

Currently, there are only two roles - ADMIN - access everythingREADER - BROWSECould you create a new role, to allow application developers the access to STOP/START the micro-services only. This would remove any intervention required by the CICS Te...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration