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WebSphere Liberty

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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

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...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Liberty profile - Allow passing of variables to "include" elements in server.xml

WebSphere Liberty profile provides use of "include" elements and variables in the server.xml. However, the variables can only have one value - the last assigned value to the variable overrides all previous. This precludes the use of different vari...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Provide a stop/resume command for persistent timer execution in WLP

In Liberty Persistent Timer execution can be started/stopped by changing the server.xml enableTaskExecution attribute to true/false. This requires a reload of the configuration (which by default is automatic, but can be configured to mbean or disa...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty z/OS SyncToOSThread support for J2C resource adapters

JCA resource adapters in WAS for z/OS (full profile) are able to exploit native z/OS security features when SyncToOSThread is enabled. However, the JCA resource adapter code needs use SyncToOSThread independently of the wider web application, so a...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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. ...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

Query Liberty edition based on features

WebSphere Liberty has different pricing models, such as Liberty core and base, where each edition has a different set of features (base being a superset of core). Customers that start from kernel and grow their installation using installationManag...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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...
10 months 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

Allow environment variables in the plugin-cfg.xml file

Our customer is evaluating WebSphere Liberty 18.0.0.3 using the latest version v9.0.0.0 IHS + PLUGIN tar instalation package to develop an architecture for running WebSphere Liberty in a containerized environment. When we run the "pluginUtility ge...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration