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PINNED OpenAPI schema validation including headers
Currently to schema validate a REST based API in DataPower you have to extract the JSON schema from the OpenAPI file and then code manually code the individual header checks defined in the OpenAPI file Would be a vast improvement to be able to j...
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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please implement renaming of objects

on DataPower Gateways up to now it is impossible to rename any objects. This is really unique and a great disadvantage of the product and constantly leads to annoying and frustrating situations in daily operations. Please implement renaming of obj...
almost 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Enabling XFF (X-Forwarded-For - HTTP) on APIC

there is F5 LB in front of APIC gateways, APIC gateways always see Source NAT (SNAT IP) of F5, we need Real Source IP in order to troubleshoot issue. Route-Map can no longer be enabled in ACI network but F5 can forward the header and body to APIC ...
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 4 Functionality already exists

API Gateway - Global Transaction Id “interference” from API Client

If an API Application consumer supplies a Global-Transaction-Id header (out of their system) with an API request into DataPower, then DataPower honours the Id it receives from the outside world, leaving the Global Transaction Id on the provider sy...
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Fix TLS MITM attack vulnerability

The datapower gateway (that acts as a client in a TLS handshake) does not check if the domain name of the endpoint URL can be matched against the CN or the SAN in the certificate (despite the TLS profile we configure explicitly states to do that)....
over 4 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

DataPower - Active Directory failover using DNS A record that represents multiple IP addresses

We would like DataPower to allow Active Directory failover using DNS A record that represents multiple IP addresses, instead of having to create and maintain dozens of Load Balancer Groups on each appliance (1 per application domain) IBM Filenet d...
over 7 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration

Create Swagger documentation for Datapower REST API

Please create swagger documentation for the Datapower REST API. It is very frustrating and time consuming to have to experiment with commands trying to get them to work when very few of them are documented in the official documentation: https://ww...
over 4 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Unspecific error thrown by "validation" policy in API Management

Please refer to the ticket: TS001157822 for more information. https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500500000188rvnAAA/unable-to-validate-json-keys-with-swagger-definition-using-validate-policy I am copying below a message from IBM support team whi...
over 6 years ago in DataPower Gateway 3 Not under consideration

url-open timeout should be in milliseconds

The url-open XSLT function timeout value is in seconds and not milliseconds. We would like to be able to specify milliseconds for the timeout. We would like to be able to specify both a connect timeout AND a read timeout, both in milliseconds. Sta...
almost 7 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration

Caching remote JWK retrieval in JWT Validator

As Support told me there is no caching (or comparable) mechanism in remote JWK retrieval in JWT Validator used in an AAA policy. This means the JWK is fetched within every service request. There should be a built-in mechanism that JWK is only retr...
5 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration