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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...
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...

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Ability to move services between Availability Zones

When organization starts small and grow big, in the beginning noone thinks about sorting services into Availability Zones. I think they bring order to complex infrastructure. Later on, when topology grows in uncontrolled manner, one finds itself w...
about 1 year ago in API Connect 2 Future consideration

Provide missing functionality to automate replacement of TLS certificates for the internal gateway using GitOps CRD

Currently you have to manually create a new keystore in order to assign that to a manually created new TLS server profile which can then be manually assigned to the existing service endpoint. This steps could be automated through administration RE...
7 months ago in API Connect 2 Future consideration

Add WSDL import function for OpenAPI 3.0

API Connect supports import of WSDL files for existing WSDL services (both SOAP proxy and REST proxy) for OpenAPI 2.0 type API's. However, the import function is not available for OpenAPI 3.0 type API's. Our site still has a lot of SOAP services f...
about 1 year ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration

Disable warning message of ACE ephemeral storage if it has been configured intentionally

Currently the CP4I integration instances overview at URL/instances shows the warning message "Ephemeral storage has been selected for this instance, this is not a resilient storage mechanism, if the pods are restarted all contents will be lost whi...
8 months ago in App Connect 9 Future consideration

Please improve gateway - api manager sync performance

Users of our API Connect platform complain about long synchronisation times after a new product/api or a new version of a product/api is published. When the product/api was received and published by API Manager it can take a very long time (someti...
almost 2 years ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration

Ability to restrict access to channel auth records

Currently there is no way to restrict access to channel auth records. This means any user can view the records currently in place regardless of their user role. This means that a read only user for example would be able to see the user names and h...
almost 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

KafkaConsumer Node allows multiple consumers in a CGID under "Additional Instance" setting

We would like to scale our ACE12 flow performance based on KafkaConsumer input node and its Additional Instance setting. Let's say our Kafka topic partition is 100 partitions. Our other Java program can easily scale up from single consumer/thread ...
7 months ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Increase OUTBUFF parameter for IBM MQ for z/OS

Hi there, We have many Production lpars complaining about "log buffer waits" for MQ managers. We have opened 2 IBM cases for that, we have implemented all best practices, but without success. OUTBUFF parameter is limited to 4000. Very small space,...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

Prepopulate "Replay To" option with the Queue name in the event payload of the R&R event message

Hi, Prepopulate "Replay To" option with the Queue name in the event payload of the R&R event message as default with the option to replay to a different queue name selected from the drop-down. This will help to avoid a message from being repla...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Access Global cache from ESQL

Functionality exists to access the global cache from Java within IIBv9, and from a graphical map within IIBv10. While it's possible to create Java functions and access them from within ESQL, this still requires a level of Java knowledge and is not...
over 8 years ago in App Connect 3 Future consideration