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My ideas: App Connect

Enable OpenTelemetry trace support for IBM App Connect Compute Nodes with configured data sources.

Currently, IBM App Connect supports OpenTelemetry tracing only for transport nodes such as MQ, HTTP, SOAP, Kafka, and REST. However, many enterprise customers rely heavily on Compute Nodes with configured data sources to interact with databases an...
9 months ago in App Connect Submitted

add support for ace toolkit on macos / apple silicon

our IBM ACE developers using the ACE toolkit on macos are starting to see warnings on macos 26.5 that intel support will be deprecated in a future macos version. Is there any intent by IBM to support the native arm based architecture at all?
2 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Download IIB fix packs and MQ ++ APAR's via JCL/other techniques to support automation.

We’re planning to automate the installation of IIB 10.1 fix packs on z/OS using SMP/E for the RECEIVE/APPLY process. Today, we manually download the fix packs for IIB 10.1 on z/OS from IBM Fix Central. This RFE requests a way to download IIB fix p...
19 days ago in App Connect Submitted

ACE-GoogleCloud PubSub-not able to access using service account-publisher/subscriber role

Using the Google Service Account authentication JSON file, we are successfully able to publish messages to the Pub/Sub topic using both Python and Java applications. The ACE integration is able to connect successfully to the Google Cloud project. ...
4 days ago in App Connect Submitted

Extended support for the schema registry

The new Kafka Producer node in ACE 13 is good, but it requires a specific ID from the Schema Registry, which varies by environment and makes it very difficult to deploy to higher environments. Key points (from my PMR): ACE 13 does not resolve sc...
3 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Add a feature to integrate with a password fault (like CyberArk) to pull the credentials for ODBC/JDBC authentication

We have worked with IBM to create a feature in WebSphere Application Server that uses the CyberArk agent to retrieve credentials from CyberArk for JDBC authentication, rather than pointing to encoded passwords stored in the local file system that ...
6 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Disable the local aspect/storage of the embedded global cache in ACE13

Under ACE13 you can make use of the Embedded Global Cache. A this time, it is not possible to disable the local aspect/storage of the Embedded Global Cache while still allowing for the replcation reads/writes. This would make an Integration Server...
3 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Multiple vault archive zip files support and Avoid Integration Server restarts for credential updates on ACE v13

1. How the IBM‑designed process works today As confirmed through IBM documentation and previous IBM Support interactions: Credentials must be generated externally, outside the Integration Server, in a separate container. Each Integration Serve...
6 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Enabling NO_PROXY/no_proxy system variable support for HTTP Nodes

This idea uses the same context of an existing ACE APAR https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT47069. Once the HTTPS_PROXY/HTTP_PROXY environment variables are set with with proxy details for the entire environment, all HTTP Node connections wil...
9 months ago in App Connect Submitted

additional information available in the Local Environment tree after propagation from the Azure Blob Request node

Additional information about the request that was done is available already for f.ex the REST Request node. When using the Azure BLOB request node, some information are currently available, but for logging, statistics and error handling, it would ...
2 months ago in App Connect Submitted