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WebSphere Liberty

Commercially Support WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Container Apps

WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty are currently not commercially supported on Azure Container Apps. This is due to license validation challenges. This has proven to be a blocker for a number of IBM and Microsoft customers including Legal & Ge...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Planned for future release

Support non-default SSL configuration on unmanaged JAX-WS client

For Liberty managed instances of the JAX-WS client, you can configure the ssl-ref with configuration below <webservices-bnd> <port name=“SayHelloPojoPort” namespace=“http://ibm.com/ws/jaxws/transport/security/” ssl-ref=“customizeSSLConfig...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 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 ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

adding/renaming clusters via admincenter

is it possible to add some administrative features like adding or renaming clusters details from the admincenter
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Add Certficate auto renew function in Liberty

Now Liberty support only self-sign certificate or CA-signed certificate. That can only support replace certificate manually. In traditional WAS , in chained-certificate , tWAS can renew the certificate automatically. Can this function add into Web...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Functionality already exists

Liberty zOS SAF delegation switch

In WAS z/OS traditional cells, we are using the paramters: com.ibm.security.SAF.authorization = false and com.ibm.security.SAF.delegation = false.The developers use the application-bnd.xml files to map J2EE roles to a bind-able referenced role in ...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Add zstd http channel output compression

Zstd is currently the best compression available: zstd is supported for a year now in all major browsers zstd uses less CPU It achieves better or on-par compression than brotli and gzip It uses way less real time to achieve better compression Hint...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

option to pass Liberty Batch joblog path

Hi IBM, In order to view joblogs of server I need to login into Admin Center Java Batch console of that server and incase of multi executor environment it will hard to identify on which executor job ran and login into that server admin center to v...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

SPNEGO / Kerberos across multiple Liberty instances

Our environment is working this way:There are several different host server (Windows) which are hosting the applications:Host A (JTS, RDNG, RQM), Host B (RTC), Host C (JTS_Lic, Licenses, JRS, DW, ..) All applications are running in different profi...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Fix the issue that's causing stuck of the JWT tokens from the z/OS Liberty server

A JSON Web Token(JWT) can get stuck. It manifests as /zosmf/services/authenticate endpoint issuing a JWT with success RC that is not valid for api calls, resulting in 401 rc. This is a persistent condition. We are tracking two cases where it happe...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration