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WebSphere Liberty

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Liberty: Allow variables expansion in jvm.options

Please allow variables expansion in jvm.options of WAS liberty profile the same way it is possible in server.xml
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Need IBM websphere liberty core images ready to use, to deploy on openshift.

We want to have websphere liberty core UBI images At this time only kernel or full edition are available: ibmcom/websphere-liberty - Docker Image | Docker Hub kernel-java8-openj9-ubi kernel-java8-ibmjava-ubi kernel-java11-openj9-ubi kernel-java17-...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Docker Build Fails Due to Feature install , Docker Build on N/W

We are using a Full Liberty image as base image to build our Applicaiton Docker image, However when the configure.sh script is excecuted the Build fails as it cannot connect to the feature repo URL while on Office N/W due to proxy and firewall rul...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

To support z/OS Liberty container in z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP)

My client is evaluating the feasibility of modernizing his traditional WebSphere on z/OS applications to run in WebSphere Liberty servers. Each application has numerous customized security profiles in RACF, and it is desirable to reuse these profi...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Extend the scope of the maxFiles parameter in logging configuration

As per case TS015417399 when configuring <accessLogging> with maxFiles in WebSphere Liberty the server only deletes old logs of more that maxFiles logs have been created by the currently running process. The current behavior makes the maxFil...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Requesting a Linux/s390x build of the Packaging Utility for Installation Manager

We are interested in setting up local Installation Manager repositories that can be accessed over http/https to provide updates for WebSphere Liberty ND and IBM HTTP server products as described in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/in...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

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

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support token authentication (IDT) when accessing a db when using a connection pool

PCI data security is requiring servers to never expose a password when accessing a db. The industry is moving towards using JWTs (for example, a RACF IDT on z/OS) to meet this requirement. JWT eliminate the need to manage a db password in Liberty ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Mapping of a role in a JWT token to a technical user ID in SAF/RACF

As of today only WebSphere Liberty on z/OS and z/OS Connect EE (which is also based on WebSphere Liberty on z/OS) can only map the distributed user ID in a JWT token to a mainframe user ID in SAF/RACF. This is a problem when there is no equivalent...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration