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WebSphere Liberty

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 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

websphere liberty password identification if encoded with custom aes key or default key

Hi Team, From 26.0.0.3 custom aes key implementation is enforced. https://openliberty.io/blog/2025/12/02/25.0.0.12.html#aes256 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=slia-supplying-your-own-aes-256-key-password-encryption Now as earlie...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Create an IBM Approved and Supported Container Image with ChainGuard (wolfi base Image)

Chainguard provides a commercial service to ensure container are protected quickly and have no major security vulnerabilities. They already have an Open Liberty version so it must work but it would be great if IBM would agree this is a valid/suppo...
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Adaptive Connection Pool Throttling based on Latency

In high-load environments, when a backend resource (like a JMS) starts slowing down, the standard behavior of a connection pool is to open more connections to handle the queue, up to the maxPoolSize. This often creates a "death spiral" where the i...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 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 ...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 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...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 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 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 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...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

That HttpServletRequest getRequestURL(); should return protocol based on what kind of connection it is and not based on a incoming http header X-Forwarded-Proto:

if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain invalid value such as https if the connection is really a http connection getRequestURL should return http and not https and if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain https,http only the the value that match the connection should...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration