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WebSphere Liberty

Combination of Liberty and Java Versions in Container Images on IBM Container Registry (ICR)

WebSphere Liberty follows the Continuous Single Stream Delivery (SSCD) lifecycle policy. Under this policy, for the most recent two releases whose version numbers end with ".3", ".6", ".9", and ".12", interim fixes (iFixes) for security vulnerabil...
about 12 hours ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted

Java SPI to determine if a server running in another JVM is running

We have a GUI that display various flavors of application servers installed on our system. The includes traditional websphere, standalone liberty servers, integrated servers (based on liberty). There could be dozens on the system. My focus is on L...
7 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Allow option to log Context Not Found errors

When a problem/corruption occurs in one instance of a cluster, it is a challenge to identify which Liberty JVM has the problem. In a Case I opened with IBM, I had cluster of 50+ CICS regions with the same Liberty JVM & application running in t...
12 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Needs more information

OAS3 feature environment should allow any single API Specification to be retrieved to the client upon request rather than a merged document

When running z/OS Connect under the OAS2 feature in a z/OS Server with multiple APIs deployed, you can issue a request to z/OS Connect to retrieve the swagger specification from the server for the specific API you request. However under the z/OS C...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

WAS for z/OS Liberty reconnects to RRS when RRS is terminated and restarted.

Backgrounds Customer is planning to migrate from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty and is validating whether or not there are some incompatibility, and also there are no problem through the extensive testing. When customer conducted...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

password decoding funcationality via command line instead of application

no need to install the application explicitly to decode the password and helpful during critical situations when in need to validating passwords. SImilar to traditional websphere even if we have funcationality to decode the password it would be he...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

Enabling to specify wild card for hardCopyMessage and/or wtoMessage elements in zosLogging property

Backgrounds The customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between the two products. We understand that WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS L...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Allow liberty to resolve domain names via DNS

Currently we are providing domain name resolution via the hosts file in the liberty path. But this requires manual changes every time a domain name is added.
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Functionality already exists

On z/OS, provide an alternative to protecting an LTPA key that does not require a password.

To provide a much more secure method of implementing LTPA keys on z/OS utilizing the security applicable to Mainframe.On z/OS, provide an alternative to protecting an LTPA key that does not require a password.
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Terminate the Liberty server when a stop server request is received while MDB application has been running longer than the configured timeout value.

Backgrounds Customer is migrating from WAS for z/OS traditional to WAS for z/OS Liberty. During the migration, many incompatibilities have been identified between WAS for z/OS traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/OS t...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review