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My ideas: DataPower Gateway

Support for long HSM key names

The current HSM does not allow to use speaking names (e.g. the common name of the corresponding certificate) for the keys as the complete path (e.g. hsm :// hsm3 /www.foobar.com) may not contain more than 31 characters.
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Make Name-Value Profiles available to the MPGW

The DataPower Web Application Firewall service allows to use Name-Value Profile objects to filter headers and/or cookies. It would be quite helpful to have an action that makes Name-Value Profiles useable in a Multi-Protocol Gateway service.
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

shared HSM domain

The current HSM strictly isolates application domains i.e. HSM keys in one application domain are not visible in another application domain. This is an important security feature, but there are valid use cases where it would be very helpful to hav...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Allow filenames longer than 90 characters (incl. directory) during configuration export

The configuration export fails with the following error messages being displayed in the system logs: Unable to Export - Could not create export file 'export.zip' using specified files The configuration export should not fail eventhough the filenam...
about 10 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Comprehensive audit logging in standard logging mode

Why - The ability to monitor for unexpected configuration change, and provide supporting evidence to any security investigation. This is required for tight security monitoring, and potentially for prosecution of rogue actors. Who - All IBM custome...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Allow TCP connection when DP backside calls DP frontside over a external loadbalancer (e.g. for wrapper APIs)

We have the necessity to call another Gateway provided API from within an API (wrapper API). For reasons of continuity those requests should have the same URL, as a client request. We are working with external load balancer, so DNS resolves to loa...
about 3 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Keeping the option to switch between new and old webgui due to performance issues

We are currently experiencing significant performance issues with the new WebGUI. It would be very important to have the option to switch between the two GUIs and set a preferred default until these issues are resolved. Several teams manage around...
10 months ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Allow LDAP bind from XSLT using password map alias

We currently use a shared secret within the application to bind to LDAP. We have a new requirement for this password to be updated at regular intervals and are exploring options to eliminate the dependency on a code move / deploy whenever the pass...
over 7 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Enable request/response logging using Log Category

Hi Team, There was requisitioned to log latency, request and response payloads without modifying service config, code and enable probe for specific services for troubleshooting purpose in a production environment. Currently DataPower gateway provi...
over 9 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Add support for "binary" (=non-xml) messages in "Send a Test Message" tool

The "Send a Test Message" tool is very useful to be able to unit test locally without involving external systems or partners (or when firewalls blocks you from internal networks to DMZ).Unfortunately the test tool only supports XML messages as bod...
about 10 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration