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WebSphere Liberty

We would like to have an SMF-record written for every MDB-request executed in a Liberty server

In traditional WAS we make use of the 120.9 record to analyze our different kind of WAS-load, regarding problem determination, cpu consumption, performance and transaction volumes.We want to do the same in Liberty, but are there delimited by just ...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 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-...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Add the ability to set a personalized "kid" value in jwtBuilder configuration.

Currently, the jwtBuilder does not provide a method to override the "kid" in the token creation header request. Liberty automatically generates the "kid" value based on the jwtEnabled value, either by creating a random string of 20 characters or b...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Requesting a Linux/s390x build of the Packaging Utility for Installation Manager

We are interested in setting up local Installation Manager repositories that can be accessed over http/https to provide updates for WebSphere Liberty ND and IBM HTTP server products as described in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/in...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Allow to change the encoding of messages.log

Our Web applcation works in the z/OS CICS Liberty environment. We see only "???" (question signs) instead correct Hebrew text in our audit and trace logs that we redirect to STDOUTR, STDERRR, STDTRCR
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Allow useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource being set at application level

This idea comes from case . z/OSMF has multiple http endpoints. One endpoint needs to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to False while while other endpoints need to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to True. Liberty doe...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Support FIPS 140-2 for Websphere Liberty (Java 17 or later) on Windows OS

Support FIPS(The Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 for Websphere Liberty with IBM Semeru Runtime Java 17 or later on Windows OS. Liberty has already supported it on RHEL platform, but not on Windows. If not, Liberty cannot win all pla...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Allow OutboundIp / Outbound Interface for IHS liberty plugin

General Description It is common for reverse proxies to use a specific outbound interface for communications to upstream, which is not the default route. IHS with the websphere plugin is the only reverse proxy which does not support this very comm...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Add support for ignoring unknown elements in SOAP response

We run an application on Liberty that performs SOAP-based API calls to a third party API. The API changes frequently and adds new elements to the response, which breaks our application until we update our client code as well. When previously deplo...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration