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WebSphere Liberty

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Userid for WLM Classification

Customer states a need to capture by Userid, instead of API. Currently The existing attributes are for host, method, port, resource and transactionClass only. No userid capability.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

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.
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Needs more information

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...
almost 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...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Need IBM websphere liberty core images ready to use, to deploy on openshift.

We want to have websphere liberty core UBI images At this time only kernel or full edition are available: ibmcom/websphere-liberty - Docker Image | Docker Hub kernel-java8-openj9-ubi kernel-java8-ibmjava-ubi kernel-java11-openj9-ubi kernel-java17-...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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

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

Docker Build Fails Due to Feature install , Docker Build on N/W

We are using a Full Liberty image as base image to build our Applicaiton Docker image, However when the configure.sh script is excecuted the Build fails as it cannot connect to the feature repo URL while on Office N/W due to proxy and firewall rul...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Support token authentication (IDT) when accessing a db when using a connection pool

PCI data security is requiring servers to never expose a password when accessing a db. The industry is moving towards using JWTs (for example, a RACF IDT on z/OS) to meet this requirement. JWT eliminate the need to manage a db password in Liberty ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration