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WebSphere Liberty

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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 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Query Liberty edition based on features

WebSphere Liberty has different pricing models, such as Liberty core and base, where each edition has a different set of features (base being a superset of core). Customers that start from kernel and grow their installation using installationManag...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow environment variables in the plugin-cfg.xml file

Our customer is evaluating WebSphere Liberty 18.0.0.3 using the latest version v9.0.0.0 IHS + PLUGIN tar instalation package to develop an architecture for running WebSphere Liberty in a containerized environment. When we run the "pluginUtility ge...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Liberty zOS - improve process to determine when mapped userid does not have access to APPL

Hi in Liberty on zOS, when authenticating to an application using a client certificate, the client certificate is mapped to a RACF user id. To be able to invoke the application, the mapped RACF user id needs to have READ access to the APPL class. ...
about 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.
about 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

adding surgeThreshold and SurgeCreationgInterval attributes to connectionManager element for WebSphere Liberty Profile

In WebSphere Libery Profile, we need surgeThreshold and surgeCreationgInterval attributes like WebSphere Traditional. This attributes are clearly defined on KC for WebSphere Traditional.http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.i...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty JSR-352: Liberty Batch needs to provide support for running workloads at different Service Classes

Today under WCG we can run workload under different Service Classes as defined in our WLM policy within the Batch Container. It would appear that under Liberty Profile and JSR-352 all work will run under the Service Class of the Server address space.
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Enable Liberty installables download through FixCentral API's

To fully automate(unmanned) Liberty software build pipelines to (1) check latest release versions and (2) download it through FixCentral, we wanted FixCentral download feature to be made available through API's, something like hosting them on deve...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

Allow OutboundIp / Outbound Interface for IHS liberty plugin

General Description It is common for reverse proxies to use a specific outbound interface for communications to upstream, which is not the default route. IHS with the websphere plugin is the only reverse proxy which does not support this very comm...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

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