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WebSphere Liberty

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Support alternative server name to defaultServer using Liberty docker images

At present, the server name for IBM provided containers are 'defaultServer'. When using Liberty containers with WebSphere Automation, this 'defaultServer' name is reported. We would like to override this 'defaultServer' name to set it to a value t...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Liberty on z/OS - send audit logs to SMF

Facility to send Liberty Profile Audit logging directly to SMF on z/OS as much of the IBM supplied software for z already does including tWAS.
over 5 years 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...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Liberty - Support of MVS modify commands to display status of zosRequestLogging

Liberty to provide support of MVS modify commands to display status of zosRequestLogging (SMF 120 records) similar to what is available today with WASt. Additionally support .enablement/disablement of such logging
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

View current log level

On z/OS, user can use Modify command to change log level of a Liberty server when server is running. There's no way to view the latest log/trace specification.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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

Enhance JWT consumer to process JWT from a list of trusted issuers.

Enhance JWT consumer to process JWT from a list of trusted issuers.As it is today, the JWT consumer only consume JWT from single issuer.
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future 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

Provide an option that allows WebSphere Liberty database pool to maintain a minNumber of "warm" connections.

The current configuration options that are available in WLP do not allow for maintaining a minPoolSize number of connections in a given connection pool. Any events of connection aging (for example timeouts that can occur on the WLP side as well as...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

WebSphere Liberty should offer StartTLS support when connecting to LDAP server for authentication

WebSphere Liberty should offer StartTLS support when connecting to LDAP server for authentication
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration