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WebSphere Liberty

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Improve and simplify the setup of Liberty InstantOn including a better step-to-step guide

The openliberty.io page is great to provide some guidance on implementing Liberty InstantOn. The problem I find is the guide is a little too high level. I had to restort to much searching to find githib labs and other documents to actually complet...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Better error reporting for Liberty InstantOn

I have been working with WebSphere Liberty InstantOn in OpenShift on the X86 and Power-10 platforms. One of the most challenging aspects revolves around the error reporting of both OpenShift errors and more specifically the CRIU errors. It has bee...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

OpenJCEPlus security provider for IBM Semeru runtimes

Since IBM Java 8.0.7.15 brainpool eliptic curves are supported by IBMJCEPlus security provider. We need an "OpenJCEPlus" security provider in Semeru 17 to bring the same IBMJCEPlus crypto provider implementation to Java 17 which would then include...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future 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...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support FIPS 140-3 in WebSphere Liberty Core with IBM Semeru 21

Existing 140-2 support is becoming deprecated and certification is available for IBM Semeru Java for FIPS 140-3. Futhermore Java 8 we are currently using will reach EOS in 2025. We would like to move to IBM Semeru Java 21 for WebSphere Liberty and...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Submitted

LTPA token timeout should respond to user activity

This is a requirement for ISO 27001 certification. This type of functionality is required by many security teams, and it is really hard to justify, explain, and get security deviations. It would be useful because users would not be harassed by fre...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Administration and application traffic on different ports

For better security, an application server's application traffic can be initiated from the web server in the DMZ, but it should not be possible for administration traffic. For Liberty profile, it is difficult to achieve.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Enable Liberty installables download through FixCentral API's

To fully automate(unmanned) Liberty software build pipelines to (1) check latest release versions and (2) download it through FixCentral, we wanted FixCentral download feature to be made available through API's, something like hosting them on deve...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

Helm artifactory for Liberty Operator

Most of the OEM software are packaged with helm. By having the helm artifactory, Liberty operator can be deployed in any flavor of kubernetes using helm deployment tool.
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Needs more information