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My ideas: API Connect

Enhance Validation and Error Notifications for Configuration and Routing Issues

We would like to see stronger validation and clearer error notifications in API Connect for configuration issues that currently only surface as runtime failures. In particular, when there are problematic configurations such as: Property or variabl...
about 1 month ago in API Connect Submitted

Improve Gateway Diagnostics for TLS Profile and Configuration Issues

When TLS-related failures occur, the Gateway Processing Status and gateway logs do not clearly indicate whether the issue is due to keystore/keystore-format/key problems or invalid/stale TLS profile references in Published Products. For example, w...
about 1 month ago in API Connect Submitted

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
4 months ago in API Connect 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
4 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
4 months ago in API Connect Submitted

One DNS Shared by multiple IWHI APIC SaaS Instances in different regions

We would like to know whether it is possible to have one common DNS name for multiple private connections in multiple regions with IWHI APIC SaaS. APIC SaaS has no native support for multi-region failover. With IWHI APIC SaaS, different instances ...
about 2 months ago in API Connect Submitted

Provide Custom SNI Hostname Support in TLS Client Profiles for Outbound Connections

Hello, Currently, TLS Client Profiles in API Manager only allow a boolean toggle for "Support Server Name Indication (SNI)." When enabled, the DataPower Gateway defaults to the hostname of the backend URL. In environments where the backend require...
about 2 months ago in API Connect Submitted

API connect support mTLS as a security scheme instead of a checkbox certificate true/false

If we wanted to support mTLS or OAUTH it's not possible with out deploying the API to a mTLS supported gateway and a non-mTLS gateway. Can the security scheme be changed to have mTLS so that we can support oauth or mTLS. This should be possible, a...
4 months ago in API Connect Submitted