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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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Deploy time(UTC) column change to Local Time

Please change the deploy time to local time zone in the App connect version 12 web console. it would-be useful to admins to get the exact time without using manual time conversions.
over 4 years ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration

API Explorer - List Per-API Vanity API Endpoint Descriptions

For catalogs that have vanity endpoints per API, it would be nice if the description was displayed next to the endpoint itself. We define descriptions and urls in the API definition, but only the urls are visible on the developer portal. Example f...
21 days ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

BigFix / ILMT Upgrade Case Summary and Pre-Upgrade Recommendation

Why is this useful? This enhancement would prevent a common and difficult-to-identify failure during BigFix and ILMT upgrades in environments using a remote SQL Server with Windows Authentication. In this case, the pre-upgrade Fixlet failed becaus...
21 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Security response headers are not present in the actual HTTP response for the ACE-generated 404/500 scenarios.

Problem statement with details. We are currently conducting half-yearly testing for APIs hosted on IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE), and our security assessment team has identified an issue related to HTTP security response headers. Current Config...
21 days ago in App Connect 0 Under review

Enhance ILMT functionality to display subcapacity shared pool values for virtual machines hosted on VMware.

Proposal: Enhance ILMT Functionality to Display Subcapacity Shared Pool Values for VMware-Hosted VMs As ILMT (IBM License Metric Tool) is a critical component for software asset and license management, particularly in virtualized environments like...
about 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

Add a feature to integrate with a password fault (like CyberArk) to pull the credentials for ODBC/JDBC authentication

We have worked with IBM to create a feature in WebSphere Application Server that uses the CyberArk agent to retrieve credentials from CyberArk for JDBC authentication, rather than pointing to encoded passwords stored in the local file system that ...
8 months ago in App Connect 1 Planned for future release

Add ability to specify Storage "claimName" in App Connect dashboard "UI form" creation

We have our Cloud Pak for Integration (using IBM App Connect Operator 13.4.0) deployed to Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO); when we tried to create a new "App Connect dashboard" (in Platform Navigator) with the default settings, it failed due to bein...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 0 Submitted

Expose the missing required parameter name (header/query/path) in the client-facing 400 APIRuleError, which the gateway already logs internally

PROBLEM When an API has enforced=true and a parameter is marked required=true, the DataPower API Gateway performs a built-in presence check BEFORE the assembly runs. If a required header/query/path parameter is missing, the gateway raises an APIRu...
2 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

native support for custom JWT header parameters is required in Integration Server

current use case requires certificate-based authentication with a Microsoft Entra ID application. During token validation, Microsoft Entra ID expects certificate information to be available through header fields such as x5t and/or kid. Since the J...
2 months ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime 0 Under review

Persist LGETDATE LGETTIME LPUTDATE LPUTTIME between queue manager reboots

This is useful info that I can't see a reason to not persist among queue manager reboots.
about 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 5 Not under consideration