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WebSphere Liberty

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allow groups search across the base entries in WebSphere Liberty like in WebSphere ND

Many organizations have multiple Active Directory Domains, and sometimes users belong to one domain are being assigned to groups in other domains, currently liberty is able to fetch group associated with user from same domain, it doesn't fetch the...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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 ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Hybrid flow for openidConnectClient and openidLogin

Only implicit flow is available for oidc login. Hybrid flow is believed as more secure
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Userid for WLM Classification

Customer states a need to capture by Userid, instead of API. Currently The existing attributes are for host, method, port, resource and transactionClass only. No userid capability.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

z/OS Connect doesn't support SNI because it uses the Liberty jaxrsClient-2.0 feature and that doesn't provide SNI support in the API requestor scenario because the Java httpURLConnection method is not being used. So please make that available.

It's very useful because when SNI support comes available in z/OS Connect API requestor it can be used for for going to the same API endpoint but specifying 3 different API endpoints in z/OS Connect coming from 3 different stages (Dev, TEST and Ac...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

OpenJCEPlus security provider for IBM Semeru runtimes

Since IBM Java 8.0.7.15 brainpool eliptic curves are supported by IBMJCEPlus security provider. We need an "OpenJCEPlus" security provider in Semeru 17 to bring the same IBMJCEPlus crypto provider implementation to Java 17 which would then include...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to create SOAP request with different namespace

Migrating from Websphere to Liberty. Liberty version we are using is (WebSphere Application Server 20.0.0.12/wlp-1.0.47.cl201220201111-0736) on IBM J9 VM, version 8.0.6.20 - pxa6480sr6fp20-20201120_02(SR6 FP20) (en_US) Application code that makes ...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Is a defect

Provide API for IBM J9 downloads

Downloads for IBM J9 are behind a log-in and there does not seem to be an API to get them. E.g. for the release 8.0.7.6, we need to download archives for these platforms: AIX 64-bit, pSeries 8.0.7.6-JavaSE-SDK-aix-ppc64-archive Linux 64-bit, pSeri...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Expose messaging engine metrics to mpMetrics/micrometer

The messaging engine contains a lot of capabilities which can be exposed via mpMetrics. Example: There is a file store configuration associated. The level of space used would be an appropriate metrics and probably the most valuable one. Other metr...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration