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WebSphere Liberty

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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...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Add zstd http channel output compression

Zstd is currently the best compression available: zstd is supported for a year now in all major browsers zstd uses less CPU It achieves better or on-par compression than brotli and gzip It uses way less real time to achieve better compression Hint...
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

[Copy] Provide an option that allows WebSphere Liberty database pool to maintain a minNumber of "warm" connections.

The current configuration options that are available in WLP do not allow for maintaining a minPoolSize number of connections in a given connection pool. Any events of connection aging (for example timeouts that can occur on the WLP side as well as...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

[Liberty Server] Two Phase Commit support for WOLA to IMS/CICS

Similar to what happen in WebSPhere Applicaiton server, we ask the introduction on Liberty the two phase commit support, for the WOLA channel outbout call to IMS/CICS.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Improve Error Messaging for Virtual Host Port Mismatch

When the <virtualHost> block is configured to allow traffic only from: <hostAlias>*:9444</hostAlias> but the server is actually listening on port 9443, any attempt by a user to access the application results in the following misl...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Restrict which http method can be called

For better security, it should be possible to configure what http methods can be used to access an application. For example, application 1 may only allow http get/put. Application 2 may disallow http options. This applies to both traditional WAS a...
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

InstantOn checkpoint.sh supported features validations to make developers life easy when adding to server.xml

InstantOn feature on Openliberty and WebSphere liberty is currently supported from version 23 and above, currently the supported jakarta features, microprofile features are listed per version and there are features which are not supported by insta...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 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 ...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

SERVERWLM Support for z/OS Connect

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

SOAP Call (JAX-WS) with LTPA from Liberty

We need support for LTPA when calling a SOAP Service from an application running on Liberty (please see use case below).
about 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration