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IBM WebSphere Liberty Workload Identity

Request summary Enhance the existing jwtBuilder component (and the associated com.ibm.websphere.security.jwt.JwtBuilder API) to support secure, programmatic issuance of application-identity JWT tokens. These tokens represent the calling Liberty ap...
2 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted

Ability to reset connection manager wait_time metric exposed via Mbean

In z/OS Connect EE (WebSphere Liberty), the connection manager wait_time metric exposed via MBeans is does not reset after a wait condition has been resolved. As a result, when a high wait time (e.g. ~10 seconds) is recorded due to a transient iss...
2 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Submitted

method PlatformAccessControl.checkMyPermission should not require BPX.SERVER access

checkMyPermission should work like RACHECK/RACROUTE does. It should allow a "normal user" to check own permissions without requiring additional permissions like BPX.SERVER. This would also be consistent with the documentation of checkPermission ve...
5 days ago in Java Runtimes (Semeru, OpenJDK) Submitted

Universal Urban Environmental Intelligence Network (UUEIN)

Project Title Universal Urban Environmental Intelligence Network (UUEIN) Mission Develop an AI-driven platform that analyzes interactions among wireless infrastructure, environmental conditions, public health indicators, transportation systems, en...
7 days ago in DevOps Automation / Create Submitted

MDB requests can be displayed by MODIFY [jobname.]identifier,DISPLAY,WORK command in WAS Liberty

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 WAS for z/OS Traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/...
8 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Implement a function to detect hung MDB applications and interrupt their execution, then Terminate the Liberty server when a stop server request is received and an MDB application has been running longer than the configured timeout value.

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 WAS for z/OS Traditional and WAS for z/OS Liberty. We understand that WAS for z/...
8 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Allow Snapshot Creation from Actual Current Inventory During Active Deployment Execution

Currently, when a snapshot is created during an Application Process using APIs such as: /cli/snapshot/createSnapshotOfEnvironment the generated snapshot reflects the deployment's target inventory ("Versions to Deploy") rather than the actual versi...
9 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Automated deploy with snap integration and rollback feature.

We want to offer our customers to deploy to production environments in a scheduled way, with access control and automatic change management. As it is going through change management approval in snap/service now in our case it is allowed for develo...
10 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Continuing where left off after a crash or broken out of scan

Large environments may have tens or hundreds of applications, which may take hours or days to scan. If a crash or for some reason the process of scanning was interrupted it would be good to continue where the scan left off. This way the past work ...
11 days ago in App Runtime Tooling Submitted

Add OAuth 2.0 mTLS support to Liberty’s native oauth-2.0 provider, specifically around RFC 8705 behavior

For our IBM OpenPages product, one of our Customers in Brazil is especially escalating the need for OAuth 2.0 mTLS support Here is the internal Slack discussion for your reference: https://ibm-cloudplatform.slack.com/archives/C30NGTBFS/p1770919784...
12 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration