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WebSphere Liberty

    SSL Certificate Management for Liberty Profile. Certificate expiry Alerting and Certificate Renewal

    WAS Liberty Profile requires SSL expiry monitoring and alerting. SSL Certificates are usually valid for many years, and the expiry dates of certificates are often missed, until the system fails due to expired certificates.
    about 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

    LTPA token timeout should respond to user activity

    This is a requirement for ISO 27001 certification. This type of functionality is required by many security teams, and it is really hard to justify, explain, and get security deviations. It would be useful because users would not be harassed by fre...
    almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 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...
    8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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

    websphere liberty password identification if encoded with custom aes key or default key

    Hi Team, From 26.0.0.3 custom aes key implementation is enforced. https://openliberty.io/blog/2025/12/02/25.0.0.12.html#aes256 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=slia-supplying-your-own-aes-256-key-password-encryption Now as earlie...
    4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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

    To support z/OS Liberty container in z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP)

    My client is evaluating the feasibility of modernizing his traditional WebSphere on z/OS applications to run in WebSphere Liberty servers. Each application has numerous customized security profiles in RACF, and it is desirable to reuse these profi...
    over 2 years 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

    Adaptive Connection Pool Throttling based on Latency

    In high-load environments, when a backend resource (like a JMS) starts slowing down, the standard behavior of a connection pool is to open more connections to handle the queue, up to the maxPoolSize. This often creates a "death spiral" where the i...
    6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

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