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WebSphere Liberty

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New /F display modify command for z/OS on request print out current active security provider list

In our business our applications can set their own security provider list dynamic throu code. In a problem determination situation we need a way of getting this information in order to help our developers and business. Moving from Java8 to Java11 ...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Liberty on z/OS - 64 bit support for WOLA

Request that the Liberty WOLA adapter provide a 64 bit API. Traditional WAS already has this WOLA 64 bit support i.e. the BBGA* modules. An AMODE 64 assembler interface module for Machine Learning for IBM z/OS® (MLz), needs to build a structure wi...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Add ICSF Use Count to SMF 123 records

Add the ICSF use count (ICSF*CRYPTO*INSTRUCTONS*COUNT) to the SMF123 records for z/OS Connect EE API counts. This is important to track the impact of requestor configurations like "idletimeout" values on the number of calls to the ICSF service whe...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support virtual baseDN mapping im Liberty to improve SSO with tWAS

VMM in tWAS environments are supporting virtual baseDN in VMM which are then via wimconfig.xml mapped to real LDAP baseDNs via the baseEntries configuration like for example <baseEntries name="cn=externalUsers" nameInRepository="cn=users,cn=ext...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Create a command to clear JWK Cache/Publickeys

We are experiencing an issue with zOS Connect/Liberty where the JSON Web Keys (JWKs) cached from a specific jwkEndpointUrl are not being refreshed unless there is a server recycle. This issue arises because our JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) do not use a ...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

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...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

I want to vote for LIBERTY-I-74. I cannot see it to vote directly because it was submitted by an IBM employee: James Pickel <pickel@us.ibm.com> I want to easily be able to tie DB2 work in JAVA using a Type-4 driver back to a CICS transaction in Liberty.

Easier performance tuning. Easier issue resolution. Easier chargeback computations. Easier userid/password maintenance.
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

SERVERWLM Support for z/OS Connect

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Plugin Generation Utility implement File Serving Enabled/Disabled feature that mimics traditional websphere

This is useful when we have multiple web application modules in a EAR application and want to designate one of them as a default application by providing / as webcontext.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Add new option to IBM WAS and Liberty to allow customers to configure WAS/Liberty to not close HTTP connections when WAS/Liberty are sending back response where the HTTP response code is greater than 399

We are making heavy use of IBM z/OS Connect and IBM z/OSMF. We have found that when a request fails in zCEE and zOSMF, the underlying Liberty product sends back a HTTP response code greater than 399 and closes the HTTP connection from the client. ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration