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WebSphere Liberty

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Enhance liberty to recover from java.io.IOException: EDC5122I Input/output error. (errno2=0x12AA044F)

TCP socket the Liberty is listening on becomes unusable. This causes connection attempts to the Liberty server to fail. This can happen when the z/OS system is running in a CINET environment (to be able run multiple TCPIP stacks) versus an INET en...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Fix the issue that's causing stuck of the JWT tokens from the z/OS Liberty server

A JSON Web Token(JWT) can get stuck. It manifests as /zosmf/services/authenticate endpoint issuing a JWT with success RC that is not valid for api calls, resulting in 401 rc. This is a persistent condition. We are tracking two cases where it happe...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Expose com.ibm.ws.uow.embeddable.UOWManager for Application access

An application may need to access transaction manager in order to suspend and resume the current thread's transaction programmatically. This feature could be achieved through UowManager in Websphere Traditional. But, Liberty provides a UoWManager ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

imcl not usable if usrprf has password *none

We started using ansible for managing our ibm i platform. We host a large websphere environment on it. I started to do the updates of Express and liberty via ansible. The first approaches did not work because of imcl complaining about the ansible ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support alternative server name to defaultServer using Liberty docker images

At present, the server name for IBM provided containers are 'defaultServer'. When using Liberty containers with WebSphere Automation, this 'defaultServer' name is reported. We would like to override this 'defaultServer' name to set it to a value t...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Liberty on z/OS - Reduce the size of the SMF 120 subtype 11 User Data section when there is only 1

Today the SMF 120 subtype 11 record is approximately 630 bytes. When a customer or program product writes to the User Data section then the record grows in size by 4.5x as the User Data section has a fixed length of 2048 bytes regardless of how mu...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Add a parameter to BBOC START_SRVR commands to define the BBO$ user id for CICS WOLA Link Server Task

We are using BBOC START_SRVR commands to start the WOLA Link Server Tasks (BBO$) in our CICS regions. Currently, there is no parameter to define the user id, under which BBO$ is running. So, if we start the Link Server Task during the CICS startup...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

View current log level

On z/OS, user can use Modify command to change log level of a Liberty server when server is running. There's no way to view the latest log/trace specification.
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Automatically propagate SAF identity when client and server are in the same cluster

For z/OS, customers are always logged into the traditional environments. This means they have an identity that is verified and trustable. The z/OS TCP/IP stack and the Java runtime support the notion of trusted identity propagation. The client mus...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration