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WebSphere Liberty

Liberty on z/OS - send audit logs to SMF

Facility to send Liberty Profile Audit logging directly to SMF on z/OS as much of the IBM supplied software for z already does including tWAS.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future 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...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Support alternative server name to defaultServer using Liberty docker images

At present, the server name for IBM provided containers are 'defaultServer'. When using Liberty containers with WebSphere Automation, this 'defaultServer' name is reported. We would like to override this 'defaultServer' name to set it to a value t...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Add support for ignoring unknown elements in SOAP response

We run an application on Liberty that performs SOAP-based API calls to a third party API. The API changes frequently and adds new elements to the response, which breaks our application until we update our client code as well. When previously deplo...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Mapping of a role in a JWT token to a technical user ID in SAF/RACF

As of today only WebSphere Liberty on z/OS and z/OS Connect EE (which is also based on WebSphere Liberty on z/OS) can only map the distributed user ID in a JWT token to a mainframe user ID in SAF/RACF. This is a problem when there is no equivalent...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Enhance JWT consumer to process JWT from a list of trusted issuers.

Enhance JWT consumer to process JWT from a list of trusted issuers.As it is today, the JWT consumer only consume JWT from single issuer.
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

WebSphere Liberty should offer StartTLS support when connecting to LDAP server for authentication

WebSphere Liberty should offer StartTLS support when connecting to LDAP server for authentication
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Add and support AMR claim in JWT

Add and support AMR claim in JWT. WebSphere core security should support "Authentication Methods References", so it can enforce step-up authentication, and know how user is authenticated. The potential value could be pwd, rsa, 2fa, mfa.
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Rest service doesn't give back information on CHARSET

When I consume a REST service I don't receive any information in HTTP header about CHARSET . Due to this the instruments that I use ( HTTP call from RPGILE, SQL, SOAP call , etc.) are not able to understand which set of character use, so particula...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration