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Provide an Additional Previous‑Quarter Security‑Only Release Alongside Each New Mod Pack

Our customers are required to perform regular software vulnerability scans and must remediate identified CVEs within a 60–90 day window. Their internal process aligns well with IBM’s monthly security fix pack releases. However, IBM’s quarterly Mod...
about 2 months ago in App Connect Submitted

File node enhancements for remote transfers via FTP/SFTP

Allow Local Environment override in the File nodes FTP configuration such that the name for the security identity used during remote transfers can be provided on the fly and the append to file option can be toggled using values in the incoming mes...
4 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Enhanced DFDL Wizard with Excel (XLSX) Parsing Support

Many departments within our organization rely on Excel spreadsheets as a primary means of structuring and exchanging data. Currently, to read and parse Excel files in IBM App Connect Enterprise, teams must write boilerplate code or purchase additi...
6 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Add support for Cyberark Conjur as external vault

webMethods Integration 11.1 supports only HashiCorp vault as an external vault. This as a replacement for the local file with encrypted passwords. We are using cyberark for our secret management. Is it possible to add support for Secrets Managemen...
12 months ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime Submitted

Integrate with Entra’s Conditional Access signals

If APIC components (e.g. API manager\ Dev portal) can integrate with Entra’s Conditional Access signals, we can enforce MFA, block based on risky sign-ins or require device compliance for high-risk operations by enforcing Zero-Trust policies
6 months ago in API Connect Submitted

Ability to use Entra Client ID ( App Registration ) to be linked with APIC Application to subscribe a product.

This is to allow apps to use Same Entra App Client ID both for APP Subscription and oAUTH on API products.. Currently The APIC APP client ID ( is internal to APIC product ) And for oAUTH we use Entra APP client ID
6 months ago in API Connect Submitted

Enable hardening Windows servers by executing VBScipts securely

Our customers want to make their Servers more secure, so they want to restrict the execution of VBScripts on their systems. They made the ".vbs" files to open with "Notepad" by default instead of starting them. The workaround to start the VBscript...
6 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

Support for MySQL 8.4

Currently, webMethods Integration Server only supports MySQL 8.0 and newer except for the latest 8.x-Version. We have clients who are using an application built on Integration Server, using a MySQL database, and they urge us to upgrade to MySQL 8....

AsyncAPI based Provider and Consumer Descriptors

At the moment, we have a way to create OpenAPI-Based Provider and Consumer REST API Descriptors. Idea is to provide a way to create AsyncAPI based Provider and Consumer Descriptors that generates necessary operations, schemas, triggers, etc. Refer...
about 1 year ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime Submitted

Add error code and error description to email template for APIGateway policy under performance monitoring.

In case of errors, this will policy will trigger based on the threshold value(error percentage/value)defined in the performance monitoring. These emails will help for the monitoring team to act upon on the issue. Without error code and error descr...