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WebSphere Liberty

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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...
5 months 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...
8 months 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...
about 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...
over 1 year 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 ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

imcl not usable if usrprf has password *none

We started using ansible for managing our ibm i platform. We host a large websphere environment on it. I started to do the updates of Express and liberty via ansible. The first approaches did not work because of imcl complaining about the ansible ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to open message.log and trace.log from Admin Center

It would very interesting to have the possibility to open message.log and trace.log from Admin Center.Like the Include member in server.xml, we can opening theses members directly from Admin Center.
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Priority of tokens are configurable when mixed authentication are enabled

When Liberty is configured to accept both LTPA tokens and JWT tokens, Liberty uses JWT tokens by default. LTPA token is ignored by the server. We would like to open this requirement that allow administrator set which SSO token is used for server a...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

authFilter should enable 'and' conditions

In Liberty's configuration for requestUrl, the pattern allows 'or' to combine multiple strings, but not 'and' so does not allow complete boolean logic to be applied to the filter. The filter is used to determine the openidConnectClient configurati...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Assign Admin traffic to a separate admin vhost

WebSphere Liberty Admin applications use the same default vhost used by applications.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration