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External vault support for the ACE Operator

Currently you can only supply a normal vault to the ACE Operator. When working with pipelines and secrets you want to inject via a vault, it seems more logical to actually support the external vault by default. You can export the existing vault to...
9 days ago in App Connect 2 Not under consideration

ACE BAR include the option to generate default values (“Build message tree using schema data types”) when validate option is enabled

We have around one thousand ACE v12 flows that consist of SOAP services (SOAP Request + SOAP Reply). In the flows, we build the SOAP reply message using ESQL, but we are facing an issue regarding the reply message: Some fields with "default value"...
about 2 months ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Proposal for Enhancing IBM App Connect Designer: Custom Naming for Generated Accounts

Currently, IBM App Connect Designer automatically assigns generic names to accounts, such as Account 1, Account 2, Account 3 . While functional, this naming convention can create challenges for users managing multiple integrations, especially in e...
18 days ago in App Connect 1 Functionality already exists

S3-compatible storage support for ACE Dashboard (IBM App Connect Operator)

Currently for the ACE Dashboard, only Amazon S3 and IBM Cloud Object Storage are supported as back-end S3 providers for the Dashboard content server. We would like this support to extend to other S3-compatible storage providers that might be avail...
2 months ago in App Connect 3 Future consideration

Accept SHA-1 encryption

The client utilizes an LDAP with certificates signed using SHA-1 (128-bit). When accessing the WebUI, which is part of the bipBroker process, a failure occurs when retrieving the certificate because the signature is encrypted with SHA-1.
3 months ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Make HTTP Input parsing for RESTAPI's dynamic based on provided path request body

# Issue When creating a new REST API, the parsing setting on the generated HTTP Input node of the generated message flow defaults to JSON. ## Description When creating a REST API, we can specify multiple paths, operations, and request bodies. Howe...
about 1 month ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Provide verbose/debug logging - including complete request / reponse

Talking about the App Connect Designer on Containers: Today it is not possible to simply activate a 'debug logging' - which logs the complete* request / reply content. Especially for troubleshooting this information is crucial - because otherwise ...
30 days ago in App Connect 5 Not under consideration

increase granularity for control of TCP connections to containers via load balancers

We recently came upon an issue with making a straight TCP connection to a POD in a K8s cluster. This is cluster isn't controlled with OpenShift but it does have the App Connect Operator installed. We decided to use a cluster load balancer handle t...
6 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

HTTPAsyncRequest node add per request timeout option - like RestAsync node

In the case of RestAsync node, it is possible to change the timeout value per message: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/12.0?topic=apis-using-local-environment-variables-rest-nodes SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.REST.Request.Timeout...
about 1 month ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Throw exception from CDOutput node upon Connect Direct transfer failure

Having issue with CDOuput node where a target system is down or even when a hostname is incorrect in the netmap we are not getting the failure in ACE. We can see from the Connect Direct logs that it failed but ACE processes as if it was successful.
7 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted