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WebSphere Liberty

SAML Single Sign On or Single Logout to support HTTP-Redirect Binding

Liberty seems to only support HTTP-POST binding for SAML Login and Logout based on our investigation <md:SingleLogoutService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://......." />We have configured our applica...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

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 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Support for OAuth 2.1 in WebSphere Liberty

Support for OAuth 2.1 in Liberty for CloudPak Foundational Services to adopt. OAuth 2.1 is a more hardened version and it is critical for CPFS to support this for its adopters. CPFS uses Liberty as its OpenID connect provider and its based on OAut...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Message (E suffix) Route to z/OS system log

Team, We need our automation to capture the errors which happen during z/OS Connect startup. Current Liberty option enableLogToMVS="true" is unable to route the error messages to z/OS system log if the failure occurs at startup. It would be nice i...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

OAS3 feature environment should allow any single API Specification to be retrieved to the client upon request rather than a merged document

When running z/OS Connect under the OAS2 feature in a z/OS Server with multiple APIs deployed, you can issue a request to z/OS Connect to retrieve the swagger specification from the server for the specific API you request. However under the z/OS C...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

COH Add Thread status log entries to Liberty code - Equivalent of TWas Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat

Traditional WebSphere had a configuration setting (Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat) that instructed it to log details about its thread pool usage e.g. the number of hung threads/size of the pool. Liberty does not have this functionality. Liberty on...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Provide automated method to generate licensing tags when clients are not using the Liberty operator for deployment.

Most of our Liberty deployments are done using custom container build pipelines and Helm based deployments. In order to track licensing we need to tag these deployments with required meta data so the license reporter will correctly compute. One of...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

WAS for z/OS Liberty reconnects to RRS when RRS is terminated and restarted.

Backgrounds Customer is planning to migrate from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty and is validating whether or not there are some incompatibility, and also there are no problem through the extensive testing. When customer conducted...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Security with External Secrets Integration

## Summary Request an IBM Liberty enhancement to let applications (including IBM Dynamic Workload Console running on Liberty) reference database credentials from an external secrets source (e.g., CyberArk/HashiCorp Vault) or secure system store. T...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Update z/OS Logging to support wildcards in message specification e.g. CWKK* or CWKK10%%

For automation we require certain error messages in z/OS Connect (A liberty application) to be routed to the system log. The current specification for hardCopyMessage and wtoMessage as part of the Configuration properties for logging on z/OS see h...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1