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App Connect

IBM Toolkit - development of REST API Applications -- provide support for binary/blob data handling

Today, we see as lot of REST application handling binary data. A simple example is the upload of a file. See the OpenAPI extract below. Unfortunately the IBM Toolkit is only able to handle JSON data formats for the REST API. This means e.g. when g...
7 months ago in App Connect Not under consideration

CI/CD Deployment for ACE with Gitlabs

Hi Team, We are currently implementing a CI/CD pipeline using GitLab to automate API development and manage API versioning within GitLab Enterprise for App Connect and API Connect. While the BAR file builds successfully and we can download it usin...
8 months ago in App Connect Not under consideration

Support of CDC pattern for the SAP HANA /EHANA/ECC

PepsiCo bought Adapter solution (based on IBM Integration Hub - Client zero). The primary component of the solution is based of CP4I (Kafka, APIC, ACE), DB2 and Liberty. In order to onboard, ten's of application through the Adapter, client needed ...
12 months ago in App Connect Not under consideration

Support for Native Active/Passive (Active/Standby) High Availability Mode in App Connect Enterprise Operator Deployments

We request IBM to enhance ACE Operator-based deployments on OCP to support a native Active/Passive (or Active/Standby) High Availability deployment model, similar to the existing IBM MQ Native HA architecture. Currently, ACE Operator deployments o...
about 1 year ago in App Connect Not under consideration

App Connect Designer: provide an option to show configured values for Account objects

In Designer we use Account object to define the endpoints. This includes e.g. values like endpoint URL or username / password. The issue: Once defined the Designer does not allow you to review the values on the Web UI . This is quite unhandy (and ...
about 1 year ago in App Connect Not under consideration

Use AI to implement a Software 3.0 approach to integration for lifecycle of the same.

Puts the stakeholder in the drivers seat and takes advantage of AI for integration tasks in a Software 3.0 approach to development. AI assists the stakeholder to do that first 80 percent in designing the integration with the Software 1.0 Developer...
about 1 year ago in App Connect Not under consideration

Display reloads require toggling between grid & table views. This should happen automatically. Please add sorting feature.

Would improve the UX for ACE administrators.
about 1 year ago in App Connect Not under consideration

Drag-to-Reorder Terminals in Flow Editor

As a developer, I want the ability to drag and reorder output terminals on a node in the flow editor, so that I can improve visual layout and maintain tidy, readable flows without needing to delete and rewire terminals.
about 1 year ago in App Connect Not under consideration

Designer: Let me (re)name flow steps

As soon as you have more than one step of a type, it is hard to distinguish them when using the expression editor. Also, naming flow steps lets me model the flow closer to the actual business case it represents. It makes it easier to be read and u...
about 1 year ago in App Connect Not under consideration

Enable Opentelemetry for SAP and SOAP Nodes

This feature allows the collection of OpenTelemetry-compatible tracing data for SOAP and SAP nodes within IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). By enabling OpenTelemetry, developers and operations teams can gain deep observability into message flows i...
about 1 year ago in App Connect Not under consideration