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PINNED It should be possible to step-in while debugging Flow Services
As of webMethods.io Integration 11.0.7, a Flow Service can be debugged step by step in the Flow Service editor, but for an INVOKE step, the debugger can only step over the INVOKE step. It would be very helpful if the debugger would also allow to s...
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...

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Provide a programmatic way to reload JDBC Adapter metadata without Designer UI

Current Situation: When a DB column size or schema is modified in the actual database, the JDBC Adapter metadata in webMethods must be manually reloaded through the Designer UI to reflect the changes. While schema comparison and detection can be h...
2 months ago in webMethods Connectors and Adapters 0 Under review

Token validation can be built in the APIC gateway

If the token validation can be built in the gateway through a policy that can utilize EntraID JWKS uri and perform token introspection (including audience ‘aud’ validation), our API providers would not need to build\maintain custom introspection APIs
9 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Renaming objects: Make it possible to change the names of Flow Services

Currently I need to change the names of many Flow Services, in order to follow naming standards and increase the ease of use of our integrations. This is not possible, and requires me to clone them and adjust many objects accordingly. Also: It cou...
almost 2 years ago in webMethods Integration SaaS 0 Future consideration

Crypto Binary Action needs an option to add cmsAlgorithmProtect signed attribute for PKCS7 / CMS digital signature

We plan to implement PKCS7 / CMS digital signature and verification, using Crpyto Binary Action in Datapower. 4 signed attributes need to be included in the PKCS7 / CMS signedData type, according to the specification we need to implement. There is...
almost 8 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration

gRPC support for APIC

gRPC is gaining a lot of popularity, more and more customers are asking for gRPC support
about 6 years ago in API Connect 2 Future consideration

Enhance interactive runmqsc shell with dynamic object name completion and context aware grammar parsing

Improve the interactive runmqsc command line interface by providing context aware keyword autocomplete and dynamic tab completion of active queue manager object names across all distributed platforms. Business Problem / Use Case The interactive ru...
2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Provide a native, cross platform backup and restore utility for IBM MQ Queue Managers (crtmqbackup and rstmqbackup)

Introduce an official, supported control command utility pair to standardize and automate point in time backup and restoration of IBM MQ queue manager configurations, authorities, and operational state across distributed platforms. Business Proble...
2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Publish com.ibm.mq.jakarta.connector.jar in Maven Central

Problem: The absence of this jar in Maven Central creates friction for developers integrating IBM MQ with modern frameworks like Quarkus. It requires manual extraction from the RAR or use of unofficial sources, which complicates CI/CD pipelines an...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 6 Future consideration

Support synchronous replication for Native HA - Cross Region Replication (CRR)

My customer would like to support RPO=0 for unplanned disruption. In their DR setup, they do have a low-latency network between their regions - e.g AWS Syd region -> GCP Syd region. With an option (for synchronous replication), it allows them t...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Future consideration

Increase OUTBUFF parameter for IBM MQ for z/OS

Hi there, We have many Production lpars complaining about "log buffer waits" for MQ managers. We have opened 2 IBM cases for that, we have implemented all best practices, but without success. OUTBUFF parameter is limited to 4000. Very small space,...
over 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration