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WebSphere Liberty

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Liberty z/OS -J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) to DB2 (setDB2ClientUser)

Liberty z/OS applications require audit and logging in DB2. We need to know who made the changes in the database records. The idea is to pass to the DB2 the J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) and put it on the setDB2ClientUser for the DB2 connection...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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...
over 3 years 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...
almost 5 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...
about 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...
almost 6 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. ...
over 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.
over 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...
about 8 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.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration