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WebSphere Liberty

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Plugin Generation Utility implement File Serving Enabled/Disabled feature that mimics traditional websphere

This is useful when we have multiple web application modules in a EAR application and want to designate one of them as a default application by providing / as webcontext.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Add new option to IBM WAS and Liberty to allow customers to configure WAS/Liberty to not close HTTP connections when WAS/Liberty are sending back response where the HTTP response code is greater than 399

We are making heavy use of IBM z/OS Connect and IBM z/OSMF. We have found that when a request fails in zCEE and zOSMF, the underlying Liberty product sends back a HTTP response code greater than 399 and closes the HTTP connection from the client. ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

Clients have requested this capability. It would round out the filesystem consuming controls by giving stdout and stderr the same log filesystem space consumption as messages.log

Clients have requested this capability. It would round out the filesystem consuming controls by giving stdout and stderr the same log filesystem space consumption as messages.log It should be possible to redirect Liberty server's stdout and stderr...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

allow groups search across the base entries in WebSphere Liberty like in WebSphere ND

Many organizations have multiple Active Directory Domains, and sometimes users belong to one domain are being assigned to groups in other domains, currently liberty is able to fetch group associated with user from same domain, it doesn't fetch the...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Hybrid flow for openidConnectClient and openidLogin

Only implicit flow is available for oidc login. Hybrid flow is believed as more secure
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Provide API for IBM J9 downloads

Downloads for IBM J9 are behind a log-in and there does not seem to be an API to get them. E.g. for the release 8.0.7.6, we need to download archives for these platforms: AIX 64-bit, pSeries 8.0.7.6-JavaSE-SDK-aix-ppc64-archive Linux 64-bit, pSeri...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with Liberty Server

Liberty Server need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

In IBM Web Administration for i, when configuring TLS, automatically generate and display the next available TLS port.

This would be very helpful for anyone trying to configure TLS for IWS. It is necessary to apply a unique port that is available. Determining an available port is very difficult for an IBM i admin user to do. The current process is to use NETSTAT o...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty z/OS -J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) to DB2 (setDB2ClientUser)

Liberty z/OS applications require audit and logging in DB2. We need to know who made the changes in the database records. The idea is to pass to the DB2 the J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) and put it on the setDB2ClientUser for the DB2 connection...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow Liberty to bind to unix file sockets

Dear community, we do have many applications on a vast number of network interfaces (if/eth) per unix host. In case we need fail-over, we assign multiple ports per application (e.g. 8000, 8001 for application 'a' and 8002 for application 'b'). Th...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration