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WebSphere Liberty

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Support virtual baseDN mapping im Liberty to improve SSO with tWAS

VMM in tWAS environments are supporting virtual baseDN in VMM which are then via wimconfig.xml mapped to real LDAP baseDNs via the baseEntries configuration like for example <baseEntries name="cn=externalUsers" nameInRepository="cn=users,cn=ext...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 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...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty Member SSLCertificate auto renewal

The Liberty Collective Controller does not auto renew Liberty Member Certificates.
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support token authentication (IDT) when accessing a db when using a connection pool

PCI data security is requiring servers to never expose a password when accessing a db. The industry is moving towards using JWTs (for example, a RACF IDT on z/OS) to meet this requirement. JWT eliminate the need to manage a db password in Liberty ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

LIBERTY and configuration validation when starting

1)Liberty read configuration from server.xmlBut if it exists bad configuration it will start without any fatal errors. (ignore the xml that liberty does not understand)It is a kind of “best effort” starting that I do not want.I prefer that It does...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

merged server.xml

Liberty supports loading configuration from the configDropins/default, configDropins/overrides and the server.xml file. This can result in multiple configuration files, and it can be hard to determine what the server is actually running with.
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Liberty - Support of MVS modify commands to display status of zosRequestLogging

Liberty to provide support of MVS modify commands to display status of zosRequestLogging (SMF 120 records) similar to what is available today with WASt. Additionally support .enablement/disablement of such logging
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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...
6 months 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...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

To support z/OS Liberty container in z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP)

My client is evaluating the feasibility of modernizing his traditional WebSphere on z/OS applications to run in WebSphere Liberty servers. Each application has numerous customized security profiles in RACF, and it is desirable to reuse these profi...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration