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PINNED Request for Adding Limited GitOps Functionality to default Domain
We have some use cases around form factor portability and cloud instance provisioning where it might be helpful to have an automated approach to loading common configurations to the default domain through GitOps. Some examples are the RBM and ODR ...
PINNED Add a "Maximum persistent reuse" parameter for the backside of an MPGW or WSP
On an MPGW or a WSP, I want to be able to configure that the persistent backside connection should be closed after X amount of requests have been sent through that connection. I can already do this for the frontside by setting the "Maximum persist...

DataPower Gateway

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Automatic failover for AMQP Brokers

For automatic AMQP Broker failover DataPower should have something like an AMQP Broker Group object, similar to the MQ Queue Manager Group object. This new group object should implement/support the failover features of the Red Hat AMQ client.
7 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Broadcast capabilities

A, B and C will connect to DataPower vía websocket. Each application to a specific Multiprotocol gateway. We need the wss messages that are sent by A to reach B and/or C. Same for the other clients. In order to simplify the scenario, our idea was ...
7 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Enable Auto-Recovery for Virtual DataPower Devices even when only a Single Storage Path Is Available

We had experienced a major availability incident due to Virtual DataPower devices entering read-only mode after a partial storage failure. Despite multipath being configured, devices could not recover automatically and required manual reboot. This...
about 1 month ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Enable IBM DataPower and IBM API Gateway to export logs via OpenTelemetry (OTLP), alongside existing tracing, so customers can stream gateway logs natively to any OTel-compatible backend

Why this matters: Enterprises are standardizing on OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral observability. DataPower already supports OpenTelemetry traces; not supporting logs forces customers to maintain parallel pipelines (syslog/NFS/File/SOAP) and cust...
3 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

NFS health check mechanism need to be modified from internal back-off mechanism to regular NFS health retry mechanism

NFS health check mechanism need to be modified from internal back-off mechanism to regular NFS health retry mechanism as the current mechanism is caching the status of NFS static mount when goes down even when single RPC call gets failed or not re...
about 1 month ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Add the OTEL Traces while calling the External OAuth Service within the Api

it will give better insights to the customer and corelate the trace from end-end systems
3 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Adding PGP Encryption/Decryption support to DataPower (as API Connect gateway)

As a governmental entity, the Egyptian Banks Company (EBC) is the technological arm of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), responsible for the modernization of e-payments infrastructure across Egypt. More details can be found on their official websit...
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Configure multiple Kerberos KDC Servers on 'Configure Kerberos KDC Server' page

DataPower cannot point to multiple Kerberos KDC servers which is a risk for High Availability. Please consider adding this feature. Location on GUI is "Objects > Crypto Configuration > Kerberos KDC Server.
2 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Enable Context Variables for parse Policy

Currently it is not possible to use Context Variables as described in Variable references in API Connect - IBM Documentation. This behavioral limits the usage of the parse policy in user-defined policies because we must always use max values. This...
2 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Option to control Payload compression and decrompression in APIGW Object

Same like MPGW, If we have the option to control the payload compression/decompression for the Api's whichever processing via APIGW object it will help us when we have the large payloads from the backend to process smoothly via Datapower Api Gateway.
3 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted