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WebSphere Liberty

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...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

SAML Single Sign On or Single Logout to support HTTP-Redirect Binding

Liberty seems to only support HTTP-POST binding for SAML Login and Logout based on our investigation <md:SingleLogoutService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://......." />We have configured our applica...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Support virtual baseDN mapping im Liberty to improve SSO with tWAS

VMM in tWAS environments are supporting virtual baseDN in VMM which are then via wimconfig.xml mapped to real LDAP baseDNs via the baseEntries configuration like for example <baseEntries name="cn=externalUsers" nameInRepository="cn=users,cn=ext...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

SSL Certificate Management for Liberty Profile. Certificate expiry Alerting and Certificate Renewal

WAS Liberty Profile requires SSL expiry monitoring and alerting. SSL Certificates are usually valid for many years, and the expiry dates of certificates are often missed, until the system fails due to expired certificates.
almost 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Create an IBM Approved and Supported Container Image with ChainGuard (wolfi base Image)

Chainguard provides a commercial service to ensure container are protected quickly and have no major security vulnerabilities. They already have an Open Liberty version so it must work but it would be great if IBM would agree this is a valid/suppo...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

To support z/OS Liberty container in z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP)

My client is evaluating the feasibility of modernizing his traditional WebSphere on z/OS applications to run in WebSphere Liberty servers. Each application has numerous customized security profiles in RACF, and it is desirable to reuse these profi...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

[Liberty Server] Two Phase Commit support for WOLA to IMS/CICS

Similar to what happen in WebSPhere Applicaiton server, we ask the introduction on Liberty the two phase commit support, for the WOLA channel outbout call to IMS/CICS.
about 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Restrict which http method can be called

For better security, it should be possible to configure what http methods can be used to access an application. For example, application 1 may only allow http get/put. Application 2 may disallow http options. This applies to both traditional WAS a...
about 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

That HttpServletRequest getRequestURL(); should return protocol based on what kind of connection it is and not based on a incoming http header X-Forwarded-Proto:

if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain invalid value such as https if the connection is really a http connection getRequestURL should return http and not https and if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain https,http only the the value that match the connection should...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Support non-default SSL configuration on unmanaged JAX-WS client

For Liberty managed instances of the JAX-WS client, you can configure the ssl-ref with configuration below <webservices-bnd> <port name=“SayHelloPojoPort” namespace=“http://ibm.com/ws/jaxws/transport/security/” ssl-ref=“customizeSSLConfig...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration