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WebSphere Liberty

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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.
about 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...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Improve message detail for CWWKS1777E

Current format of message is as below: ibm.ws.security.openidconnect.common.OidcCommonClientRequest E CWWKS1777E: Validation failed for the token requested by [RS_CREDENTIAL] due to a mismatch of signing algorithms between the OpenID Connect clien...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Microprofile openapi uses the default host

Standard web applications can use virtual hosts in Liberty but feature WABs such as microprofile openapi can not. The requests should be made using the default host name.
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Extra security check against requests from users who are already authenticated

After a user is authenticated, there are still checks against the server's guest id to the EJBROLE profiles. This can cause, in some cases, excessive logging of unexpected, but valid, failures against the server's guest id and the EJBROLE profiles...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Provide a feature for Dynamic IP restriction settings for IBM Websphere Liberty server

Our product runs on bundled IBM Liberty Server. The version of the Liberty that gets deployed with the product is “WebSphere Application Server 19.0.0.8/wlp-1.0.31.cl190820190813-1136”.Currently IBM Websphere Liberty does not provide any mechanism...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Liberty zOS SAF delegation switch

In WAS z/OS traditional cells, we are using the paramters: com.ibm.security.SAF.authorization = false and com.ibm.security.SAF.delegation = false.The developers use the application-bnd.xml files to map J2EE roles to a bind-able referenced role in ...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Option to configure OIDCClient to pass the sessionID in a more secure manner

We have learned from our security team that the session ID for the /oidcclient/redirect/azureclient URL is being passed in the URL using clear text. I had opened a case with WAS support to see how the issue could be mitigated by sending sessionID ...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration