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Add capability to set environment variables from K8s secrets from APIConnectCluster

It seems that the APIConnectCluster and AnalyticsCluster CRs do not support injecting environment variables from secrets. We can inject environment variables, just not from secrets. We are using logstash to offload analytics data. The endpoint tha...
over 1 year ago in API Connect Not under consideration

External vault support for the ACE Operator

Currently you can only supply a normal vault to the ACE Operator. When working with pipelines and secrets you want to inject via a vault, it seems more logical to actually support the external vault by default. You can export the existing vault to...
almost 2 years ago in App Connect Not under consideration

Allow mqsilist to be used by accounts not in the mqbrkrs group

As of ACE 12.0.12.1, IBM ships ACE with the mqsilist file/program having permissions that allow 'world' to read mqsilist, but not to execute it. A user has to be a member of the mqbrkrs group to execute mqsilist. A Case with IBM confirmed this and...
over 2 years ago in App Connect Not under consideration

LogTarget - keep identical event detection

The identical event detection option in LogTarget object has been deprecated since 10.x firmware. IBM recommend disabling it as it might cause the appliance to reload. However, after disabling the option in our email LogTarget for critical events,...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Configurable number of RDQM nodes

At the moment we are running MQ RDQM HA on 3 nodes. The documented process for an outageless upgrade or a rebuild is to suspend a node at which point the RDQM cluster is running on just 2 nodes which is quorum. If during the rebuild of the 3rd nod...
almost 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

MQ Should Automatically Rebuild XCF Entries!

This idea is a re-hashing of [MESNS-I-205] which was previously declined. It is unreasonable that MQ for z/OS does not automatically handle rebuilding XCF entries as part of QSG recovery. If for any reason, the entries go missing (like during alte...
almost 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Adding Windows "Group Managed Service Accounts" support to MQ

In our environment we have user dedicated for IBM MQ service runnig.Our Security Standards requires periodical changing password for that user. The password should be unknow by administrator. Windows gMSA will resolve all problems with this issue ...
almost 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Automatic removal of poison messages to backout queue

Currently IBM MQ provides options of BOQNAME in a local queue so that client can leverage it to dump poison messages however the burden lies at client side to move such messages and if there is an existing client which never used this option then ...
about 8 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Allow reconfiguration / tuning of Queue Manager LogFilePages after initial Queue Manager create

Update MQ to support LogFilePages changes so that a Queue Manager recreation is not required. This would enable (simpler) tuning / retuning, supporting a culture of experimentation and allowing Customers to adapt their configurations over-time. ...
about 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Support ibmmq python module on Z

Opening this idea request for IBM to add support for ibmmq python module on Z and provide case support for production operations. As Python on z/OS has become an valuable tool for development and administrators on z/OS. Having ibmmq python module ...
7 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration