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WebSphere Liberty

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JAX-WS opens too many SSL connections

In our application we have a client in Liberty that makes JAX-WS soap calls to a backend server, also in Liberty. We've found that when we use ssl to make the JAX-WS calls, we can easily cause the server to open over 1024 sockets simultaneously, w...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Complete OSGI modularization of all Liberty Profile Implementation(s)

The complete functionality of the Liberty Profile implementation should be modularized by means of OSGI. Thus, it should be possible that any custom extension to the Liberty Profile server can be implemented and provided as OSGI feature. In partic...
about 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Commercially Support WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Container Apps

WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty are currently not commercially supported on Azure Container Apps. This is due to license validation challenges. This has proven to be a blocker for a number of IBM and Microsoft customers including Legal & Ge...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Planned for future release

Add zstd http channel output compression

Zstd is currently the best compression available: zstd is supported for a year now in all major browsers zstd uses less CPU It achieves better or on-par compression than brotli and gzip It uses way less real time to achieve better compression Hint...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

support  syncToOSThread for J2C connections for CICS on Websphere Liberty for Z/OS

This idea is to get it on product roadmap after discussion with PM .Previous submitted idea : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TWAS-I-255 Feature Summary Social Security Administration (SSA )uses tWas 8.5 on Z/os and is migrating to Liberty with Identi...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Planned for future release

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...
10 months 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...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support AWSSecretsManagerPostgreSQLDriver on WebSphere Liberty for AWS - EKS deployments

Deployment of an application on Websphere Liberty that uses AWS Secret Manager for password rotation. The IBM ODM team (Russell Scher) worked on this request and received some feedback from Fred Rowe in relation to the issue.
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

Support FIPS 140-2 for Websphere Liberty (Java 17 or later) on Windows OS

Support FIPS(The Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 for Websphere Liberty with IBM Semeru Runtime Java 17 or later on Windows OS. Liberty has already supported it on RHEL platform, but not on Windows. If not, Liberty cannot win all pla...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Expose messaging engine metrics to mpMetrics/micrometer

The messaging engine contains a lot of capabilities which can be exposed via mpMetrics. Example: There is a file store configuration associated. The level of space used would be an appropriate metrics and probably the most valuable one. Other metr...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration