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WebSphere Liberty

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Display the Keyring in the JOBLOG for Liberty servers running on z/OS

Currently we can't see what Keyring the Liberty servers are using from the JOBLOG in SDSF. This would help us see what Keyrings need to be updated with renewed certificates rather than manually checking the Liberty server files.
8 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

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://...
8 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Planned for future release

Install diagnostic features by default when using features.sh with the Liberty kernel base image

If the Liberty kernel base image is used to build a container (e.g. icr.io/appcafe/websphere-liberty:kernel-java17-openj9-ubi) and features.sh is used to install the necessary features from the server XML file(s), then, usually, potentially requir...
15 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Needs more information

Liberty z/OS MQ jms credentials propagation

Hello IBM, We have applications which run in Liberty z/OS and communicate with MQ by bindings (memory to memory). We would expect that these applications would send the end-user credentials to MQ. The same applications run in WAS z/OS traditional ...
18 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Under review

App expanded folder auto cleanup

When applications deployed to a Liberty server are expanded, e.g. <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> the expanded war and ear files are not deleted when the corresponding application is stopped and removed from the Liberty server.An exp...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Prevent sensitive information logging by redirecting the messages of certain liberty codes to a specific file in liberty logs directory

As of today, the liberty messages with sensitive information such as email ID, user name etc., is being logged in messages.log which causes it to be logged in INFO level. Liberty has the hide message attribute to hide those certain liberty message...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Host an IBM-per-Customer Maven-Repository to download the WLP license files

Currently, downloading the WLP license files (base/core) requires manual steps: Logging in to IBM Browsing through Download Central Clicking through a set of sites Downloading the license Verifying the signature Re-Uploading to our internal reposi...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Enable bypass of certificate alternate names verification for inbound requests

Hi Lets supose my My zCEE endpoint is someprefix.mf.jpmchase.net :xxxx/someApi I MUST have someprefix.mf.jpmchase.net in the SAN server certificate, otherwise I don’t get a secure connection. I'd like to add zCEE/Liberty some feature to skip that ...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

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 ...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Support selecting JWT signature and decryption algorithms from JOSE header

For OIDC, mpJwt, etc., the algorithms are currently specified via the configuration in the server.xml or mp config properties file. This limits the configuration of those features to one specific algorithm. If the JWT is signed using a different a...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration