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API Connect

Support Network HSM (Thales Vormetric, AWS KMS, Azure Vault etc.) in Manager

The import of credentials (keys, certificates) via network HSM is a missing security feature required by enterprise with very high credential protection needs. Currently this is missing in Cloud and API Manager for resource management.
about 6 years ago in API Connect Future consideration

Mutual TLS upload certificate validation

As a bank we have different requirements for different products in regards to the mutual TLS certificate of the API consumer. We would like to be able to differentiate between:1. Type of certificate2. Certificate Authority The main reason for this...
about 6 years ago in API Connect Future consideration

Allow wildcard search for base_path in APIC provider API

We want to use https://apic-api.apiconnect.ibmcloud.com/v10/#/IBMAPIConnectPlatformProviderAPI_200/operation/%2Fcatalogs%2F%7Borg%7D%2F%7Bcatalog%7D%2Fapis/get to check, if two APIs being published in different catalog spaces use the same endpoint...
about 2 years ago in API Connect Future consideration

Button for certificate validation in cloud manager

By default, legacy certificate validation mode is selected for mTLS in APIConnect. "match exact certificate or immediate issuer" There's no way to configure on GUI THere's a way to do it in extension on APIConnect config https://www.ibm.com/docs/e...
about 1 year ago in API Connect Future consideration

Ability to place the system under read-only (or maintenance) mode during upgrades

Prior to API Connect product upgrades, we require the ability to automatically place the system under a temporary read-only or maintenance mode via an elevated role within the CMC. This will prevent any changes being made to users, roles, permissi...
over 7 years ago in API Connect Future consideration

Backup & Restore per provider organization

You can create backups and restore backups of API manager and Analytics can only for all data stored in these components. As we think of provider organizations as tenants of a platform we want to be able to backup and restore data for API manager ...
over 5 years ago in API Connect Future consideration

Detailed documentation of pod roles and dependencies

API Connect 10 runs as a set of pods with cryptic names and undocumented roles. When diagnosing runtime issues it would be extremely helpful to have documentation what is a role of specific pods and which pod depend on which (i.e. some pods depend...
over 3 years ago in API Connect Future consideration

Peering configuration should use DNS instead of IP or static host

API gateway peering configuration should support DNS settings for other peers instead of IPs or alias . this will add more flexibility to peering in Openshift and Kubernetes without the need of IBM shipped scripts (gateway-peering.js) to wait the ...
over 3 years ago in API Connect Future consideration

Add support for websocket upgrade with OpenApi 3 specifications

Presently websocket upgrades are only supported with OpenApi 2. For existing OpenApi 3 Apis we are required to create a separate OpenApi 2 specification in order to proxy websocket connections via the API Gateway.
over 3 years ago in API Connect Future consideration

Mutual TLS certificate validation check

We would like that the API Connect Developer Portal to perform the following validations on the MTLS certificate that is uploaded to the Portal: 1. Do not allow self signed certificates2. Do not allow expired certificates3. Do not allow certificat...
over 6 years ago in API Connect Future consideration