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WebSphere Liberty

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Liberty API to validate IDP metadata for SAML Configuration

Currently while configuring SAML in ICP , users have to upload IDP metadata as one of the step, Currently ICP does not validate this metadata, validating this would mean ICP has to maintain its own version of SAML schema. It would be better if Lib...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Complete OSGI modularization of all Liberty Profile Implementation(s)

The complete functionality of the Liberty Profile implementation should be modularized by means of OSGI. Thus, it should be possible that any custom extension to the Liberty Profile server can be implemented and provided as OSGI feature. In partic...
about 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Extra security check against requests from users who are already authenticated

After a user is authenticated, there are still checks against the server's guest id to the EJBROLE profiles. This can cause, in some cases, excessive logging of unexpected, but valid, failures against the server's guest id and the EJBROLE profiles...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

batchManagerZos stop operation

A batchjob in z/OS thats using batchManagerZos indirectly calls a Liberty server for starting up a java batch job. Today, STOP operation will only stops the wrapper job, not the actual batchjob running in Liberty server. We require that a stop req...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to stop Liberty server when application fails to start

For Digital Commerce, we are dockerizing all applications. Application life cycle ties to docker container life cycle. When the application fails to start, the container should also fail, so the orchestrator can notice the failure, then a new cont...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

transient folder in wlp

Liberty supports password encryption. IBM advice is to load the encryption key via a bootstrap.properties file include that loads the key from a file system outside the wlp directory path. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSD28V_9.0.0/c...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support timeout at the request-level

We are planning to use Liberty for running online transactions on mainframe.The model is going to be: Consumer -- > Web server (on z/) -- > Liberty app server (on z/).As we understand, the request from the Web server first arrives at a Globa...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Request Metrics for Liberty

Liberty does not supply the amount of statistics that tWAS allows. It would be useful to have a feature similar to tWAS's Request Metrics that prints out the time certain components took in processing, like JDBC times, EJB execution times, etc.
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Liberty: Limit the number of pending requests

Our deployment has a web-services layer in Liberty connected to COBOL programs using JCICS. If the arrival rate of the requests is higher than the service rate of the servers the requests are queued in Liberty. If the clients time-out, the request...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

allow an endpoint to validate a JWT from two different OPs that have different issuers and different keys

an enhancement to allow an endpoint to validate a JWT from two different OPs that have different issuers and different keys
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration