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WebSphere Liberty

Improve and simplify the setup of Liberty InstantOn including a better step-to-step guide

The openliberty.io page is great to provide some guidance on implementing Liberty InstantOn. The problem I find is the guide is a little too high level. I had to restort to much searching to find githib labs and other documents to actually complet...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Better error reporting for Liberty InstantOn

I have been working with WebSphere Liberty InstantOn in OpenShift on the X86 and Power-10 platforms. One of the most challenging aspects revolves around the error reporting of both OpenShift errors and more specifically the CRIU errors. It has bee...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

SERVERWLM Support for z/OS Connect

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
about 3 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 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Plugin Generation Utility implement File Serving Enabled/Disabled feature that mimics traditional websphere

This is useful when we have multiple web application modules in a EAR application and want to designate one of them as a default application by providing / as webcontext.
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

ldapregistry support to posixGroup in liberty

https://github.ibm.com/IBMPrivateCloud/roadmap/issues/10204 We are using ldapregistry in liberty to support OIDC authentication in ICP. Currently it is supporting LDAP groups with member attribute configured with full DNs, like: dn: cn=group1, cn=...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

multiple jwksUri in configuration file jwt_sso_mdm.xml

As IWS admin we would like to set up primary and backup console to be connected with primary and backup MDM using SSO and openID authentication. Right now only one console can be connected with one MDM so during the failover we have to manually re...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

That HttpServletRequest getRequestURL(); should return protocol based on what kind of connection it is and not based on a incoming http header X-Forwarded-Proto:

if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain invalid value such as https if the connection is really a http connection getRequestURL should return http and not https and if X-Forwarded-Proto: contain https,http only the the value that match the connection should...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to visualize MDB activity and performance in Liberty [MONITOR]

Have historically made use of MDB's in addition to HTTP driven services in tWAS , but after starting the migration to Liberty we have no means to actively i real time visualize performance or even occurrence of activity regarding MDB's.We would li...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Planned for future release

Liberty profile - Allow passing of variables to "include" elements in server.xml

WebSphere Liberty profile provides use of "include" elements and variables in the server.xml. However, the variables can only have one value - the last assigned value to the variable overrides all previous. This precludes the use of different vari...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration