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WebSphere Liberty

Bring your own AES-256 key for Liberty Secrets

This feature will allow customers to bring their own AES 256 key by providing it as a base64 string in a new property (at the time of writing (wlp.aes.encryption.key)
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Deliver fixes for last three LTS versions by default, not two

Because 24.0.0.6 is still in support at time of writing (2025-12-09), we requested ifixes for this version. However, it would be feasible that the ifixes would be delivered for the last three versions by default, so we would not need to ask for th...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Liberty z/OS - SyncToOSThread available for EJBs

We would like to have the SyncToOSThread implemented also to the EJBs. Unfortunally the Liberty code does not look at the EJB deployment descriptors for the env-entry to enable SyncToOSThread, only within the webapp (WAR) deployment descriptors. T...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Support for sessionAffinity in WebsphereLibertyApplication CRD

Running Liberty in RedHat Openshift enables session stickyness. This must be set on the service spec. To do that with the Liberty operator is not possible. So the property must be added to the operator. need sessionAffinity, see the doc : https://...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Upgrade Jandex Version to Support the Latest Persistent Format Version to Shorten CDI scanning processing

We are addressing the Java version-up project and have a problem of taking about at least 12 minutes to start Liberty in the development environment (Eclipse), which means that development productivity cannot be increased and fundamental measures ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Not last 2 but last 3 LTS versions should be udpated.

Our idea is that for the update strategy for the Liberty Container Images not only the last 2 LTS versions should be updated, but the last 3 versions. In our company we only bring every half a year new Liberty Version to production and in between ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

featureUtility could recognise no_proxy or NO_PROXY

featureUtility runs into a very long timeout when a proxy is set, but the configured repo is not reachable via this proxy. https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/issues/23684
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Support FIPS 140-3 in WebSphere Liberty Core with IBM Semeru 21

Existing 140-2 support is becoming deprecated and certification is available for IBM Semeru Java for FIPS 140-3. Futhermore Java 8 we are currently using will reach EOS in 2025. We would like to move to IBM Semeru Java 21 for WebSphere Liberty and...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

A very high volume of messages written to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server.

It has been found that the writing of a very high volume of messages to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server. In this case, the z/OS Connect product running within a Liberty server was w...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered