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WebSphere Liberty

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Add arbitrary parameters to tokenEndpoint or authorizationEndpoint inside the openidConnectClient element in server.xml

Some token or authorization endpoints require additional information. For that, it would be necessary to allow customers passing additional parameters to the token or authorize endpoint.
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Coexistence of multiple authentication mechanisms for a single service in Liberty

Liberty has limited support to have multiple authentication mechanisms to a service when one of them is SPNEGO. With custom TAI and the method isTargetInterceptor you could determine if this interceptor should handle the request. The method has th...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Allow the use of host sytem environment variables in server.env: Shell and variable expansion should be supported

System: WebSphere Liberty Profile Actor: Automated deployment relying on config information provided by runtime platform (i.e. linux server or container) As WebSphere Liberty is heavily used in cloud contexts, configuration options that need to be...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Serializing session data access in WAS Liberty

WAS traditional provides an option to prevent the concurrent access to a session in a given server instance so that concurrent modification of a session does not occur in a given server instance.To migrate to WAS Liberty, our customer needs same f...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Transaction peer recovery for WAS Liberty

WAS traditional provides the peer recovery function for the transaction service. That is, in-doubt transactions of failed application servers are resolved by other cluster members.
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

logstashCollector feature should collect the remote user of HTTP request for access log

Per talking with WAS development team, the current logstashCollector feature only collects the following fields, which doesn't include the remote user. this.uriPath = uriPath; this.requestMethod = requestMethod; this.queryString = queryString; thi...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Set Liberty Working Directory

Expose a setting to set the Working Directory for a Liberty JVM. Right now it gets set to ${WLP_OUTPUT_DIR}/${SERVER_NAME}. In my environment I would like to set it to ${WLP_OUTPUT_DIR}/${SERVER_NAME}/logs so that heap dumps and log4 logs are with...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

mailSession

The Liberty Profile documentation for mailSession (and most features) do not specify which options are required. Please update the documentation so we don't have to spend so much time testing configurations with trial and error.
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Add "WAS_EndpointInitialState" equivalent feature in Liberty

In WAS full profile, in order to enforce strict FIFO ordering of messages in a cluster, we set the "WAS_EndpointInitialState" property to "INACTIVE" on those Activation Specs to tell WAS full profile to not start the Activation Spec on startup, an...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

manually update the configuration of a running Liberty

Provide a way to manually update the configuration of a running Liberty server when dynamic configuration updates have been disabled.For example, an mBean limited to role 'Administrator' and a REST API to drive a configuration refresh.For Liberty ...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered