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WebSphere Liberty

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Query Liberty edition based on features

WebSphere Liberty has different pricing models, such as Liberty core and base, where each edition has a different set of features (base being a superset of core). Customers that start from kernel and grow their installation using installationManag...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Option to configure OIDCClient to pass the sessionID in a more secure manner

We have learned from our security team that the session ID for the /oidcclient/redirect/azureclient URL is being passed in the URL using clear text. I had opened a case with WAS support to see how the issue could be mitigated by sending sessionID ...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under 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...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Allow environment variables in the plugin-cfg.xml file

Our customer is evaluating WebSphere Liberty 18.0.0.3 using the latest version v9.0.0.0 IHS + PLUGIN tar instalation package to develop an architecture for running WebSphere Liberty in a containerized environment. When we run the "pluginUtility ge...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under 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...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Issue with Liberty WebSpear server

Hello Team, I am trying to run one webService SOAP based application using Apache CXF. I am trying to resolve the following errors, but I could not. On each restart it shows some different error. Please find all these details as below. Same applic...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Is a defect

Liberty Member SSLCertificate auto renewal

The Liberty Collective Controller does not auto renew Liberty Member Certificates.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Client Authentication for Kafka Producer in Liberty Server

Our problem We want to run multiple java programmes (in current use case Kafka-Producers) in a single CICS Liberty Server. Authentication on Kafka-Broker side (hosted on our on-premise cloud) is done by client certificates. Our security department...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

Liberty zOS - improve process to determine when mapped userid does not have access to APPL

Hi in Liberty on zOS, when authenticating to an application using a client certificate, the client certificate is mapped to a RACF user id. To be able to invoke the application, the mapped RACF user id needs to have READ access to the APPL class. ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

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 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration