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WebSphere Liberty

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Client Authentication for Kafka Producer in Liberty Server

Our problem We want to run multiple java programmes (in current use case Kafka-Producers) in a single CICS Liberty Server. Authentication on Kafka-Broker side (hosted on our on-premise cloud) is done by client certificates. Our security department...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

Need ability to disable iiopPort

We are using a feature that pulls in ejbRemote-3.2 but are not using any of the functionality that ejbRemote-3.2 provides. ejbRemote-3.2 opens up a non-secure IIOP listener on port 2809. We need to disable all non-secure ports in this environment,...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

SOAP Call (JAX-WS) with LTPA from Liberty

We need support for LTPA when calling a SOAP Service from an application running on Liberty (please see use case below).
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Liberty Collective security must support SAF keyrings and certificates that SSA will furnish, with no requirements for Subje

RFE REQUIREMENT 1: DESCRIPTION: Collective security requires certificates and keystores outside the scope of the configuration specified by the server.xml. The certificates require specific Subject Distinguished Name (DN) values as a way to commun...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty on z/OS - Reduce the size of the SMF 120 subtype 11 User Data section when there is only 1

Today the SMF 120 subtype 11 record is approximately 630 bytes. When a customer or program product writes to the User Data section then the record grows in size by 4.5x as the User Data section has a fixed length of 2048 bytes regardless of how mu...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Mapping of a role in a JWT token to a technical user ID in SAF/RACF

As of today only WebSphere Liberty on z/OS and z/OS Connect EE (which is also based on WebSphere Liberty on z/OS) can only map the distributed user ID in a JWT token to a mainframe user ID in SAF/RACF. This is a problem when there is no equivalent...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Allow useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource being set at application level

This idea comes from case . z/OSMF has multiple http endpoints. One endpoint needs to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to False while while other endpoints need to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to True. Liberty doe...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Automatically propagate SAF identity when client and server are in the same cluster

For z/OS, customers are always logged into the traditional environments. This means they have an identity that is verified and trustable. The z/OS TCP/IP stack and the Java runtime support the notion of trusted identity propagation. The client mus...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

pluginConfiguration - functionality to change the LogLevel during plugin generation

We are running Liberty z/OS and we would like to set the Loglevel in logs/state/plugin-cfg.xml file https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/zos?topic=SS7K4U_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.autogen.nd.doc/ae/rwlp_config_pluginConfiguration.html p...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration