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WebSphere Liberty

IBM WebSphere Liberty Workload Identity

Request summary Enhance the existing jwtBuilder component (and the associated com.ibm.websphere.security.jwt.JwtBuilder API) to support secure, programmatic issuance of application-identity JWT tokens. These tokens represent the calling Liberty ap...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Ability to reset connection manager wait_time metric exposed via Mbean

In z/OS Connect EE (WebSphere Liberty), the connection manager wait_time metric exposed via MBeans is does not reset after a wait condition has been resolved. As a result, when a high wait time (e.g. ~10 seconds) is recorded due to a transient iss...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

COH Add Thread status log entries to Liberty code - Equivalent of TWas Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat

Traditional WebSphere had a configuration setting (Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat) that instructed it to log details about its thread pool usage e.g. the number of hung threads/size of the pool. Liberty does not have this functionality. Liberty on...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Create a new ROLE in the Admin Centre

Currently, there are only two roles - ADMIN - access everythingREADER - BROWSECould you create a new role, to allow application developers the access to STOP/START the micro-services only. This would remove any intervention required by the CICS Te...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Administration and application traffic on different ports

For better security, an application server's application traffic can be initiated from the web server in the DMZ, but it should not be possible for administration traffic. For Liberty profile, it is difficult to achieve.
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Jakarta EE Spec for Apache Kafka Similar to Jakarta Messaging JMS

This idea is really an evolution of where I see JEE needing to add capabilities which are not present compared to other competitive solution libraries like https://spring.io/projects/spring-kafka. OpenLiberty (https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/li...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty Profile on z/OS provides the way to surface resource adapter health

Currently, Liberty Profile on z/OS provides MODIFY command for Display information, including status, for each pause capable component on the server as below:MODIFY [jobname.].identifier,status,details If the command is issued for MDB message endp...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Microprofile openapi to use other than the default host

Standard web applications can use virtual hosts in Liberty but feature WEBs such as microprofile openapi can not use the virtual hosts. The requests are being made using the default host name. Could you please make it possible to use the virtual h...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

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 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

SHA-512 Support in WebSphere Liberty (OpenPages & Cognos)

Within a regulated financial institution in Singapore (an IBM customer), there is an enterprise-wide security mandate requiring the adoption of SHA-512 across all products to meet internal security standards and regulatory expectations. However, b...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration