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WebSphere Liberty

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Improve message detail for CWWKS1777E

Current format of message is as below: ibm.ws.security.openidconnect.common.OidcCommonClientRequest E CWWKS1777E: Validation failed for the token requested by [RS_CREDENTIAL] due to a mismatch of signing algorithms between the OpenID Connect clien...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Provide a stop/resume command for persistent timer execution in WLP

In Liberty Persistent Timer execution can be started/stopped by changing the server.xml enableTaskExecution attribute to true/false. This requires a reload of the configuration (which by default is automatic, but can be configured to mbean or disa...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

I want to vote for LIBERTY-I-74. I cannot see it to vote directly because it was submitted by an IBM employee: James Pickel <pickel@us.ibm.com> I want to easily be able to tie DB2 work in JAVA using a Type-4 driver back to a CICS transaction in Liberty.

Easier performance tuning. Easier issue resolution. Easier chargeback computations. Easier userid/password maintenance.
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Query Liberty edition based on features

WebSphere Liberty has different pricing models, such as Liberty core and base, where each edition has a different set of features (base being a superset of core). Customers that start from kernel and grow their installation using installationManag...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Option to configure OIDCClient to pass the sessionID in a more secure manner

We have learned from our security team that the session ID for the /oidcclient/redirect/azureclient URL is being passed in the URL using clear text. I had opened a case with WAS support to see how the issue could be mitigated by sending sessionID ...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow environment variables in the plugin-cfg.xml file

Our customer is evaluating WebSphere Liberty 18.0.0.3 using the latest version v9.0.0.0 IHS + PLUGIN tar instalation package to develop an architecture for running WebSphere Liberty in a containerized environment. When we run the "pluginUtility ge...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Liberty Member SSLCertificate auto renewal

The Liberty Collective Controller does not auto renew Liberty Member Certificates.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty zOS - improve process to determine when mapped userid does not have access to APPL

Hi in Liberty on zOS, when authenticating to an application using a client certificate, the client certificate is mapped to a RACF user id. To be able to invoke the application, the mapped RACF user id needs to have READ access to the APPL class. ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Provide API for IBM J9 downloads

Downloads for IBM J9 are behind a log-in and there does not seem to be an API to get them. E.g. for the release 8.0.7.6, we need to download archives for these platforms: AIX 64-bit, pSeries 8.0.7.6-JavaSE-SDK-aix-ppc64-archive Linux 64-bit, pSeri...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Add new option to IBM WAS and Liberty to allow customers to configure WAS/Liberty to not close HTTP connections when WAS/Liberty are sending back response where the HTTP response code is greater than 399

We are making heavy use of IBM z/OS Connect and IBM z/OSMF. We have found that when a request fails in zCEE and zOSMF, the underlying Liberty product sends back a HTTP response code greater than 399 and closes the HTTP connection from the client. ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration