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WebSphere Liberty

    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 2 Future consideration

    WAS for z/OS Liberty reconnects to RRS when RRS is terminated and restarted.

    Backgrounds Customer is planning to migrate from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty and is validating whether or not there are some incompatibility, and also there are no problem through the extensive testing. When customer conducted...
    27 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

    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 ...
    2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Needs more information

    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 1 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/...
    3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

    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...
    about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 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...
    about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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 2 Needs more information

    Provide automated method to generate licensing tags when clients are not using the Liberty operator for deployment.

    Most of our Liberty deployments are done using custom container build pipelines and Helm based deployments. In order to track licensing we need to tag these deployments with required meta data so the license reporter will correctly compute. One of...
    4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

    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.
    over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

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