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WebSphere Liberty

    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

    Jakarta EE Spec for Apache Kafka Similar to Jakarta Messaging JMS

    This idea is really an evolution of where I see JEE needing to add capabilities which are not present compared to other competitive solution libraries like https://spring.io/projects/spring-kafka. OpenLiberty (https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/li...
    5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

    SHA-512 Support in WebSphere Liberty (OpenPages & Cognos)

    Within a regulated financial institution in Singapore (an IBM customer), there is an enterprise-wide security mandate requiring the adoption of SHA-512 across all products to meet internal security standards and regulatory expectations. However, b...
    6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

    Support token authentication (IDT) when accessing a db when using a connection pool

    PCI data security is requiring servers to never expose a password when accessing a db. The industry is moving towards using JWTs (for example, a RACF IDT on z/OS) to meet this requirement. JWT eliminate the need to manage a db password in Liberty ...
    over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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...
    almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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 5 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...
    7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

    Create an IBM Approved and Supported Container Image with ChainGuard (wolfi base Image)

    Chainguard provides a commercial service to ensure container are protected quickly and have no major security vulnerabilities. They already have an Open Liberty version so it must work but it would be great if IBM would agree this is a valid/suppo...
    about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

    Support non-default SSL configuration on unmanaged JAX-WS client

    For Liberty managed instances of the JAX-WS client, you can configure the ssl-ref with configuration below <webservices-bnd> <port name=“SayHelloPojoPort” namespace=“http://ibm.com/ws/jaxws/transport/security/” ssl-ref=“customizeSSLConfig...
    about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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...
    almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

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