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WebSphere Liberty

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Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with Liberty Server

Liberty Server need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

In IBM Web Administration for i, when configuring TLS, automatically generate and display the next available TLS port.

This would be very helpful for anyone trying to configure TLS for IWS. It is necessary to apply a unique port that is available. Determining an available port is very difficult for an IBM i admin user to do. The current process is to use NETSTAT o...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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

pluginConfiguration - functionality to change the LogLevel during plugin generation

We are running Liberty z/OS and we would like to set the Loglevel in logs/state/plugin-cfg.xml file https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/zos?topic=SS7K4U_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.autogen.nd.doc/ae/rwlp_config_pluginConfiguration.html p...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Allow Liberty to bind to unix file sockets

Dear community, we do have many applications on a vast number of network interfaces (if/eth) per unix host. In case we need fail-over, we assign multiple ports per application (e.g. 8000, 8001 for application 'a' and 8002 for application 'b'). Th...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to disable iiopPort

We are using a feature that pulls in ejbRemote-3.2 but are not using any of the functionality that ejbRemote-3.2 provides. ejbRemote-3.2 opens up a non-secure IIOP listener on port 2809. We need to disable all non-secure ports in this environment,...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Improve message detail for CWWKS1777E

Current format of message is as below: ibm.ws.security.openidconnect.common.OidcCommonClientRequest E CWWKS1777E: Validation failed for the token requested by [RS_CREDENTIAL] due to a mismatch of signing algorithms between the OpenID Connect clien...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Enhance liberty to recover from java.io.IOException: EDC5122I Input/output error. (errno2=0x12AA044F)

TCP socket the Liberty is listening on becomes unusable. This causes connection attempts to the Liberty server to fail. This can happen when the z/OS system is running in a CINET environment (to be able run multiple TCPIP stacks) versus an INET en...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future 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 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Expose com.ibm.ws.uow.embeddable.UOWManager for Application access

An application may need to access transaction manager in order to suspend and resume the current thread's transaction programmatically. This feature could be achieved through UowManager in Websphere Traditional. But, Liberty provides a UoWManager ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration