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WebSphere Liberty

Terminate the Liberty server when a stop server request is received while MDB application has been running longer than the configured timeout value.

Backgrounds Customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/OS t...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Implement a function to detect hanging MDB applications and interrupt their execution.

Backgrounds Customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/OS t...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Liberty Profile on z/OS provides the way to surface resource adapter health

The concern is that ServerEndpointControl.isActive() continues to return true even after all reconnection attempts have failed and the MDB is no longer able to consume messages. The updated problem statement is described below. Environment The MDB...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

[Liberty Server] Two Phase Commit support for WOLA to IMS/CICS

Similar to what happen in WebSPhere Applicaiton server, we ask the introduction on Liberty the two phase commit support, for the WOLA channel outbout call to IMS/CICS.
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

IBM WebSphere Liberty Workload Identity

Request summary Enhance the existing jwtBuilder component (and the associated com.ibm.websphere.security.jwt.JwtBuilder API) to support secure, programmatic issuance of application-identity JWT tokens. These tokens represent the calling Liberty ap...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0

Ability to reset connection manager wait_time metric exposed via Mbean

In z/OS Connect EE (WebSphere Liberty), the connection manager wait_time metric exposed via MBeans is does not reset after a wait condition has been resolved. As a result, when a high wait time (e.g. ~10 seconds) is recorded due to a transient iss...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Host an IBM-per-Customer Maven-Repository to download the WLP license files

Currently, downloading the WLP license files (base/core) requires manual steps: Logging in to IBM Browsing through Download Central Clicking through a set of sites Downloading the license Verifying the signature Re-Uploading to our internal reposi...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Websphere Liberty Password Encoding with AES need to add tags like {aes256} to differentiate passwords from {aes} which is aes128

Websphere Liberty Password Encoding with AES need to add tags like {aes256} to differentiate passwords from {aes} which is aes128 All the users who are using websphere liberty will benficial as its easiest way to differentiate the aes passwords fr...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Restrict which http method can be called

For better security, it should be possible to configure what http methods can be used to access an application. For example, application 1 may only allow http get/put. Application 2 may disallow http options. This applies to both traditional WAS a...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Trusted DB2 for z/OS connection for Liberty Profile

It would be very helpful if WAS Liberty Profile supported DB2 trusted connections and trusted contexts. Right now I am forced to use SyncToOSThread functionality but that causes problems with authorization to write to log files. I am working on a ...
about 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration