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WebSphere Liberty

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Java HealthCenter fails to start in Liberty via Java Attach API

The issue is that WAS/Liberty uses the OSGi framework, which registers as the InitialContextFactoryBuilder for the NamingManager if the jndi-1.0 feature is in use. This then prevents any code that does not have a BundleContext from registering a n...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Security exposure in Liberty federated repository behavior

When multiple LDAPs/user registries are configured, user login will prompt a search against all LDAPs. Say I configure IBM bluepage LDAP, and Amazon LDAP. When user tom@ibm type user id and password, we send tom@ibm.com to both IBM bluepage and Am...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Adding a Second Factor Authentication (2FA+) feature on Websphere App Server and Liberty

Various IBM tools comes with WAS or Websphere liberty embedded to the product for user authentication. These products allows to have a local user authentication or LDAP user authentication, but it did not provide any feature for a Second Factor Au...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Add originator IP address/port to LTPA token

If I log in to a web application running in WebSphere Liberty Profile (WLP) from one machine, I can use the generated LTPA token on another machine without logging in a second time. It would be good if the LTPA token contained information about th...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Require basic Two-Factor Authentication support in the core Websphere Liberty/OIDC capability

The CLM products currently integrate with OIDC capability built on Liberty to provide SSO capabilities. We would like the OIDC capability to be enhanced to provide two factor authentication support. The two factor support can be as simple as sendi...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

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
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Implementing WSSubject.getRootLoginException() in Liberty

We are migrating an existing JEE application from WebSphere Traditional to Liberty, and the current application has a custom user registry module. In WebSphere Traditional, we can call WSSubject.getRootLoginException() to get the root cause of log...
about 11 hours ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

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-...
5 months 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...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

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