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WebSphere Liberty

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Adding "Authenticate when any URI is accessed" in WebSphere Liberty Profile

Adding feature available in WebSphere Application Server full profile "Authenticate when any URI is accessed" to WebSphere Liberty Profile. Require this function to enforce websphere security for commercial off the shelves applications that doesn'...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Enhance the dynamicRouting setup and genPluginCfg commands to set piped logger for plugin log

Enhance the dynamicRouting setup and genPluginCfg commands so the plugin log location can refer to a piped logger. This is related to RFE 94444 which implemented something similar. Today, when dynamicRouting is used to generate plugin config files...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

API to get the connection to the JobRepository

The current implementation of the JSR-352 (Java Batch) in WebSphere Liberty Profile requires to have both a connection to the JobRepository and to the business data for chunk processing. As a consequence the system always needs a global transactio...
about 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

We would like to have an SMF-record written for every MDB-request executed in a Liberty server

In traditional WAS we make use of the 120.9 record to analyze our different kind of WAS-load, regarding problem determination, cpu consumption, performance and transaction volumes.We want to do the same in Liberty, but are there delimited by just ...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Allow to change the encoding of messages.log

Our Web applcation works in the z/OS CICS Liberty environment. We see only "???" (question signs) instead correct Hebrew text in our audit and trace logs that we redirect to STDOUTR, STDERRR, STDTRCR
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Allow useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource being set at application level

This idea comes from case . z/OSMF has multiple http endpoints. One endpoint needs to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to False while while other endpoints need to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to True. Liberty doe...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect doesn't support SNI because it uses the Liberty jaxrsClient-2.0 feature and that doesn't provide SNI support in the API requestor scenario because the Java httpURLConnection method is not being used. So please make that available.

It's very useful because when SNI support comes available in z/OS Connect API requestor it can be used for for going to the same API endpoint but specifying 3 different API endpoints in z/OS Connect coming from 3 different stages (Dev, TEST and Ac...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 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 ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration