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WebSphere Liberty

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App expanded folder auto cleanup

When applications deployed to a Liberty server are expanded, e.g. <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> the expanded war and ear files are not deleted when the corresponding application is stopped and removed from the Liberty server.An exp...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Request refresh_token support in the WebSphere Liberty openidConnectClient.

We need refresh_token support in the WebSphere Liberty openidConnectClient to better handle re-auth during AJAX requests.
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Make compression feature extensible

Currently, Liberty only supports gzip and deflate, as already stated in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LIBERTY-I-144 However, it is impossible for users to add new compressions globally, as the classes are not extensible at all. I think the relevant ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Allow JNDI as a mpConfig configuration source to allow encryption of secrets

Currently, it is not clear whether any configuration source can benefit from the liberty encryption.If this was possible, the secrets could be stored on disk in an encrypted way. I know JNDI properties can be encrypted, so let's add JNDI to the ex...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Allow usage of z/OSMF JWT tokens by multiple sessions using the same user ID

We are using new APIs to obtain JWT tokens (/zosmf/services/authenticate) from our automated scripts that use other z/OSMF REST APIs with the obtained. After the script completes, it calls the DELETE method to invalidate the token that it obtained...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Requesting a Linux/s390x build of the Packaging Utility for Installation Manager

We are interested in setting up local Installation Manager repositories that can be accessed over http/https to provide updates for WebSphere Liberty ND and IBM HTTP server products as described in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/in...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty thin client for JMS

Our product uses the JMS support within Liberty to publish messages that can be subscribed to by clients (Eclipse plug-in or Ant build) to get feedback on long running processes. Currently we rely on the WAS thin client for JMS to provide this cap...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect: Background : As part of a firm migration project for one of our bank’s cards, we were required to migrate our z/OS requester API’s to a new external vendo...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty zOS - add capability to selectivity use mapDistributedIdentities via TAI

Provide way to let Liberty on zOS be configured so that can selectivity specify that some validated users are mapped to RACF but others use other security set up in Liberty such as an external LDAP Further detail: Provide a way to set up the Liber...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration