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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 days ago in App Connect Submitted

provide memory consumption information per message flow

Today it's not possible to analyze the memory consumption for a specific message flow. The only statistic provide are on parser level and memory for the complete integration runtime. However this is often not sufficient to analyze and troubleshoot...
2 days ago in App Connect Submitted

IBM App Connect: natively support Prometheus as output format for all resource statistics

As of today only a subset of the App Connect resource statistic information are available for a Prometheus integration. E.g. information about Parsers, ODBC and JDBC connections etc are missing. It would be a surplus if App Connect would natively ...
8 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...
about 1 month ago in App Connect Submitted

Support shipping ACE logs using OpenTELemetry

We run IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on OpenShift. Traces are currently shipped via OpenTelemetry (OTEL) to Instana, while logs are forwarded to Splunk using the OpenShift Logging ClusterLogForwarder / Splunk agent. Splunk supports log ingestio...
19 days ago in App Connect Submitted

Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

While IBM ACE delivers strong core integration and messaging capabilities, ISO 8583 TCP/IP transaction flows currently rely primarily on native logging and flow‑level diagnostics, which offer limited centralized observability and real‑time operati...
3 months ago in App Connect Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in App Connect Submitted

App Connect in Containers: allows to stop single flows via the ACE Dashboard

Context: App Connect in Containers Currently it's inly possible to stop complete ACE applications via the Dashboard. However for testing and debugging purpose it would be good if there is an option to stop single flows (within the application itse...
12 days ago in App Connect Submitted

mqsilist for ACE Console

There is NO easy way to export list of integrations and their status in an App Connect Enterprise (ACE) environment. Same situation is there in traditional/VM based setup as well as in CP4I installation. mqsilist command generates lots of informat...
7 days ago in App Connect Submitted

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...
7 months ago in App Connect Submitted