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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...

DataPower Gateway

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Security Enhancement: Enforce the API MIME type declaration at the Gateway level

We have had a security finding with regards to the APIC Gateway not blocking unexpected content-type requests. Specifically the security finding was that all the endpoints allow a user to send data in XML format, even though the expected, default ...
5 months ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Functionality already exists

Show more detailed CPU usage

Currently if a DataPower gateway has high CPU usage, we cannot see which service in which domain is using the majority of CPU resources. This makes it difficult to troubleshoot high CPU usage situations. We suggest that running the "show cpu" comm...
almost 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Size of file consumed is not logged when SFTP Poller Handler is used

Using Datapower Operational dashboard there is a good summary of the traffic volume however this is excluding traffic comnsumed by SFTP Poller Handler as this data is not logged by Datapower.
11 months ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Future consideration

IDG#3 NTP service log

DataPower Gateway issues requests to the first NTP server in the list. If this server is not available, the DataPower Gateway attempts to contact the next server in the list.In this case, Data  Power Gateway does not log the error reason why ...
over 5 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Functionality already exists

IDG#1 Worklist value for API request

A worklist value which is shown by the show load command contains not only number of API requests in queues (WorkerThread queues) but also internal processing work items.A customer wants to monitor just API request's number for transaction load st...
over 5 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration

Add DB2 client ODBC driver for DB2 on Linux, AIX and Windows (already have zOS)

Currently there is a specific driver for DB2 on zOS installed in DataPower. This allows for several functions, including failover and automatic client reroute. Unfortunately, for users that have DB2 on Linux, AIX or Windows do not have this functi...
about 5 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Netprefix support for front side handler

This feature is needed in our group in order to support TCP socket connection to front side handler. This is the functionality we need to be supported in front side handler: Current process: Request flow: IST → Open TCP socket → TCP/IP Driver (AS/...
almost 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 4 Future consideration

Use LDAP Connection Pooling from the RBM settings in the default domain

While no where near as busy as application domains, there are LDAP calls regularly from the default domain on a DataPower appliance. Particularly in the case of monitoring and maintenance tools that can cause dozens of LDAP calls per minute. Multi...
12 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

DataPower Web GUI - Add a Comments field to Static Hosts in DNS Settings in Default Domain

Please add a Comments field to the Static Hosts field in the DNS Settings section of the default domain. Static Hosts are used to abstract a DNS name and the reason for that redirection may not be obvious. A comments field would be very helpful. H...
over 8 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Performance issue with Datapower file transfer throughput(low SFTP buffer size)

Datapower is exhibiting extremely slow response time while processing files though sftp. The SW version is IDG.2018.4.1.12. We have TCP window resizing to On. A sample sftp program on a system with similar network profile/location is processing fi...
almost 4 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration