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Support shipping ACE logs using OpenTELemetry

We run IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on OpenShift. Traces are currently shipped via OpenTelemetry (OTEL) to Instana, while logs are forwarded to Splunk using the OpenShift Logging ClusterLogForwarder / Splunk agent. Splunk supports log ingestio...
20 days ago in App Connect Submitted

Provide a declarative way to push personal certificate for the Nano Gateway

This is similar to APICONN-I-872 but applies to the DataPower Nano Gateway (nanogw). We run API Connect (APIC) on CP4I on OpenShift. From v12.1.0.2, onboarding a nanogw service via the APIC CMC requires the nanogw certificate's CN to match the Ope...
20 days ago in API Connect Submitted

Disable the local aspect/storage of the embedded global cache in ACE13

Under ACE13 you can make use of the Embedded Global Cache. A this time, it is not possible to disable the local aspect/storage of the Embedded Global Cache while still allowing for the replcation reads/writes. This would make an Integration Server...
about 1 month ago in App Connect Submitted

Protects against concurrent login by the same user

User accounts within a web application should only be permitted to use one session at a time. If the user authenticates again then any previously valid sessions should be immediately terminated, with an appropriate message displayed within both se...
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

Request for Node Selector and Toleration Support in Nano Gateway to Address Licensing Implications

We have been operating IBM API Connect with the DataPower API Gateway as a component of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) since 2019. We are currently planning a migration to APIC v12.1 utilising the DataPower Nano Gateway (nanogw). However, ba...
about 1 month ago in API Connect Submitted

Add functionality to MQ/MFT on z/OS to provide retries on allocations failures

File transfers from other systems to a z/OS MQ/MFT agent fail, if the target dataset is busy, such as the case of a GDG dataset. This change would allow for the transfers to wait (based on retries and timeout values specified) until the target dat...
7 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Submitted

App Connect in Containers: allows to stop single flows via the ACE Dashboard

Context: App Connect in Containers Currently it's inly possible to stop complete ACE applications via the Dashboard. However for testing and debugging purpose it would be good if there is an option to stop single flows (within the application itse...
13 days ago in App Connect Submitted

Enable OpenTelemetry trace support for IBM App Connect Compute Nodes with configured data sources.

Currently, IBM App Connect supports OpenTelemetry tracing only for transport nodes such as MQ, HTTP, SOAP, Kafka, and REST. However, many enterprise customers rely heavily on Compute Nodes with configured data sources to interact with databases an...
7 months ago in App Connect Submitted

ILMT support multiple different metrics single json array payload - like UMS does

Currently UMS supports not including metricName in the CR, and sending a single JSON array payload such that many metrics are mapped to the same mappingId, each with their own metricName in the payload we send.Example payload:[{"mappingId": "SOME_...
8 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

mqsilist for ACE Console

There is NO easy way to export list of integrations and their status in an App Connect Enterprise (ACE) environment. Same situation is there in traditional/VM based setup as well as in CP4I installation. mqsilist command generates lots of informat...
8 days ago in App Connect Submitted