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WebSphere Liberty

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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

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 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

The JAX-WS and CXF code in Liberty does not cache any SSL socket connections for reuse

The JAX-WS and CXF code in Liberty does not cache any SSL socket connections for reuse. We probably have you to open RFE for this issue. our L3 are trying to recreate the issue locally to get more information.This RFE is based on above comment fro...
over 4 years 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...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Liberty - Support of MVS modify commands to display status of zosRequestLogging

Liberty to provide support of MVS modify commands to display status of zosRequestLogging (SMF 120 records) similar to what is available today with WASt. Additionally support .enablement/disablement of such logging
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

View current log level

On z/OS, user can use Modify command to change log level of a Liberty server when server is running. There's no way to view the latest log/trace specification.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support SAN on CAC\Smart Card with Liberty server

Add support Subject Alternative Names (SANs) for use with CAC\Smart Cards in Liberty serverCurrently using 19.0.0.8 with the ssl-1.0 feature.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

Provide API for IBM J9 downloads

Downloads for IBM J9 are behind a log-in and there does not seem to be an API to get them. E.g. for the release 8.0.7.6, we need to download archives for these platforms: AIX 64-bit, pSeries 8.0.7.6-JavaSE-SDK-aix-ppc64-archive Linux 64-bit, pSeri...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

merged server.xml

Liberty supports loading configuration from the configDropins/default, configDropins/overrides and the server.xml file. This can result in multiple configuration files, and it can be hard to determine what the server is actually running with.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration