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WebSphere Liberty

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Support to obtain the role information from the access token / OIDC configuration

Human2web authorization is built by ODM based on Id_token and access_token is not considered. Only when we configure with a variable/key from Id_token, authorization works. Custom customer system do not have any groups/roles/claims as part of id_t...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Delivered

logstashCollector feature should collect the remote user of HTTP request for access log

Per talking with WAS development team, the current logstashCollector feature only collects the following fields, which doesn't include the remote user. this.uriPath = uriPath; this.requestMethod = requestMethod; this.queryString = queryString; thi...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

make authCache distributed within a Collective or a predefined set of servers

After migrating from WAS ND Classic with use of TAI and Custom Subject/Custom Cache key to Liberty the use of Liberty collectives has shown that, even with SSO login with LTPA configured, a new login is forced when accessing a server not beeing th...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 6 Delivered

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...
over 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...
over 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...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Liberty on z/OS - Reduce the size of the SMF 120 subtype 11 User Data section when there is only 1

Today the SMF 120 subtype 11 record is approximately 630 bytes. When a customer or program product writes to the User Data section then the record grows in size by 4.5x as the User Data section has a fixed length of 2048 bytes regardless of how mu...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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.
almost 10 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...
over 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.
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered