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WebSphere Liberty

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Allow to change the encoding of messages.log

Our Web applcation works in the z/OS CICS Liberty environment. We see only "???" (question signs) instead correct Hebrew text in our audit and trace logs that we redirect to STDOUTR, STDERRR, STDTRCR
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

check specific components status in server command

We want an easier way to check the status of an activationSpec programatically. Now we have server command with pause and resume activationSpec capabilities, but we need this to also enable the option to check the status of server components. serv...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Enable Liberty installables download through FixCentral API's

To fully automate(unmanned) Liberty software build pipelines to (1) check latest release versions and (2) download it through FixCentral, we wanted FixCentral download feature to be made available through API's, something like hosting them on deve...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

Issue with Liberty WebSpear server

Hello Team, I am trying to run one webService SOAP based application using Apache CXF. I am trying to resolve the following errors, but I could not. On each restart it shows some different error. Please find all these details as below. Same applic...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Is a defect

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

Client Authentication for Kafka Producer in Liberty Server

Our problem We want to run multiple java programmes (in current use case Kafka-Producers) in a single CICS Liberty Server. Authentication on Kafka-Broker side (hosted on our on-premise cloud) is done by client certificates. Our security department...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists

Allow useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource being set at application level

This idea comes from case . z/OSMF has multiple http endpoints. One endpoint needs to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to False while while other endpoints need to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to True. Liberty doe...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

DataPower HSM should support RSA-OAEP

The current HSM version in IDGx2 and IDGx3 does not support RSA OAEP padding which is a major issue as the only supported alternative is RSA1_5 (PKCS1-v1_5) which is considered vulnerable. The decryption of an RSA-OAEP or RSA-OAEP-256 encrypted JW...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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.
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration