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WebSphere Liberty

Websphere liberty AES256 custom key in xml not secured

Issue Details From 26.0.0.3 Default key usage is removed from Liberty for usage along with securityUtility command for AES256 encoding of passwords New Solution delivered in 25.0.0.12 for appending our own custom AES key for encryption of password...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

usage-based licensing model for WebShpere Liberty

I have received requests from two customers, who are using Liberty, to provide a usage-based licensing model that can accommodate dynamic capacity scaling in cloud environments. I also occasionally receive inquiries from other customers asking whe...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

API for creating LTPA keys file

Liberty docs recommend to place the same ltpa.keys file to any liberty node reachable by your loadbalancer. For automated deployments, creation via Java API (liberty feature) is feasible. Please provide a feature (or extend PasswordUtilityies-1.0 ...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

password decoding funcationality via command line instead of application

no need to install the application explicitly to decode the password and helpful during critical situations when in need to validating passwords. SImilar to traditional websphere even if we have funcationality to decode the password it would be he...
28 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Enabling to specify wild card for hardCopyMessage and/or wtoMessage elements in zosLogging property

Backgrounds The customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between the two products. We understand that WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS L...
30 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

MDB requests can be displayed by MODIFY [jobname.]identifier,DISPLAY,WORK command in WAS Liberty

Backgrounds The customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS Traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS Traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

We would like to have an SMF-record written for every MDB-request executed in a Liberty server

In traditional WAS we make use of the 120.9 record to analyze our different kind of WAS-load, regarding problem determination, cpu consumption, performance and transaction volumes.We want to do the same in Liberty, but are there delimited by just ...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Graceful pause of CICS liberty port to prevent transaction loss

When a CICS liberty port was paused, we found that some API transactions are abended. We understand that when the port was paused, the TCP listener stops accepting NEW connections immediately. The channel destruction happens quickly which means th...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Needs more information

Allow liberty to resolve domain names via DNS

Currently we are providing domain name resolution via the hosts file in the liberty path. But this requires manual changes every time a domain name is added.
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Functionality already exists

Terminate the Liberty server when a stop server request is received while MDB application has been running longer than the configured timeout value.

Backgrounds Customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/OS t...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

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