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WebSphere Liberty

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Enable bypass of certificate alternate names verification for inbound requests

Hi Lets supose my My zCEE endpoint is someprefix.mf.jpmchase.net :xxxx/someApi I MUST have someprefix.mf.jpmchase.net in the SAN server certificate, otherwise I don’t get a secure connection. I'd like to add zCEE/Liberty some feature to skip that ...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Support FIPS 140-3 in WebSphere Liberty Core with IBM Semeru 21

Existing 140-2 support is becoming deprecated and certification is available for IBM Semeru Java for FIPS 140-3. Futhermore Java 8 we are currently using will reach EOS in 2025. We would like to move to IBM Semeru Java 21 for WebSphere Liberty and...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration

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 ...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under 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 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Make compression feature extensible

Currently, Liberty only supports gzip and deflate, as already stated in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LIBERTY-I-144 However, it is impossible for users to add new compressions globally, as the classes are not extensible at all. I think the relevant ...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Under review

Allow JNDI as a mpConfig configuration source to allow encryption of secrets

Currently, it is not clear whether any configuration source can benefit from the liberty encryption.If this was possible, the secrets could be stored on disk in an encrypted way. I know JNDI properties can be encrypted, so let's add JNDI to the ex...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect

Request for enhancement to local JWT generation functionality in Liberty under z/OS Connect: Background : As part of a firm migration project for one of our bank’s cards, we were required to migrate our z/OS requester API’s to a new external vendo...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

SERVERWLM Support for z/OS Connect

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration