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WebSphere Liberty

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Add the ability to set a personalized "kid" value in jwtBuilder configuration.

Currently, the jwtBuilder does not provide a method to override the "kid" in the token creation header request. Liberty automatically generates the "kid" value based on the jwtEnabled value, either by creating a random string of 20 characters or b...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty z/OS -J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) to DB2 (setDB2ClientUser)

Liberty z/OS applications require audit and logging in DB2. We need to know who made the changes in the database records. The idea is to pass to the DB2 the J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) and put it on the setDB2ClientUser for the DB2 connection...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support AWSSecretsManagerPostgreSQLDriver on WebSphere Liberty for AWS - EKS deployments

Deployment of an application on Websphere Liberty that uses AWS Secret Manager for password rotation. The IBM ODM team (Russell Scher) worked on this request and received some feedback from Fred Rowe in relation to the issue.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

check specific components status in server command

We want an easier way to check the status of an activationSpec programatically. Now we have server command with pause and resume activationSpec capabilities, but we need this to also enable the option to check the status of server components. serv...
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support for custom URL Resource Providers in WebSphere Liberty Profile

Within our company we use WebSphere Liberty Profile during development since it greatly improves the performance. Unfortunately there is some disconnect between full-blown WebSphere and WebSphere Liberty Profile in the area of configuration. The f...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Support FIPS 140-2 for Websphere Liberty (Java 17 or later) on Windows OS

Support FIPS(The Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 for Websphere Liberty with IBM Semeru Runtime Java 17 or later on Windows OS. Liberty has already supported it on RHEL platform, but not on Windows. If not, Liberty cannot win all pla...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

SOAP Call (JAX-WS) with LTPA from Liberty

We need support for LTPA when calling a SOAP Service from an application running on Liberty (please see use case below).
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty on z/OS - Reduce the size of the SMF 120 subtype 11 User Data section when there is only 1

Today the SMF 120 subtype 11 record is approximately 630 bytes. When a customer or program product writes to the User Data section then the record grows in size by 4.5x as the User Data section has a fixed length of 2048 bytes regardless of how mu...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Add ICSF Use Count to SMF 123 records

Add the ICSF use count (ICSF*CRYPTO*INSTRUCTONS*COUNT) to the SMF123 records for z/OS Connect EE API counts. This is important to track the impact of requestor configurations like "idletimeout" values on the number of calls to the ICSF service whe...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration