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App Connect

A small editor for MCP tool descriptions in the Web UI, readable by both the agent and a human

When you expose a REST API as an MCP tool, you set a description per tool. It gets pre-filled from the OpenAPI spec, and you can edit it, but the editing experience is bare. [one line on the current field limitation, e.g. single cramped input, no ...
17 days ago in App Connect Submitted

Expose a pre-emptive vs. reactive authorization toggle for Basic Auth / OAuth directly in the security policy

Right now, whether the server challenges a client pre-emptively or reactively for Basic Auth or OAuth comes down to a setting that's hidden. It's not in the security policy where you'd expect it, and the docs don't make it obvious. You only find i...
17 days ago in App Connect Submitted

time to live for redis cache put via mbglobalmap

We'd need to be able to cache keys, and in the case of extended Redis cache, a time to live for the keys using mbglobalmap class. This requirement is needed for the migration from Extreme Scale to Redis, as Extreme Scale allowed setting a TTL at t...
about 1 month ago in App Connect Submitted

Make it possible to create monitor events based on nodetype and not on nodelabel

At this moment a monitor event is emitted when the eventSourceAddress is equal to the nodelabel.terminal.terminalname. This makes that when you change the nodelabel of a node (to make it more readable what is does) you need to create an extra moni...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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 ...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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 ...
about 2 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?
about 2 months 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...
about 2 months ago in App Connect Submitted