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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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Renaming objects: Make it possible to change the names of Flow Services

Currently I need to change the names of many Flow Services, in order to follow naming standards and increase the ease of use of our integrations. This is not possible, and requires me to clone them and adjust many objects accordingly. Also: It cou...
about 2 months ago in webMethods Integration SaaS 0 Submitted

Troubleshooting the IBM MQ Operator: a single command similar to "runmqras"

Instead of running multiple commands and exporting to local then compressing to a zip/tar tile , if this all can be done by single command it will be really helpful. For example , MQ uses "runmqras " and ITCAM uses "pdcollect" command to collect a...
7 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration

Declarative EEM API - i.e CRs to create published topics etc

EEM has a REST based API today, which can be used to create, update, publish and unpublish Kafka topics. A logical extension to this (and a better fit for CI/CD/GitOps style adoption) would be to offer a declarative approach (using k8s custom reso...
6 months ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 0 Future consideration

ACE integration runtime configuration object for ACE Vault

Since a few years we have been running ACE on CP4I on Openshift. We do not use the mqsicredentials object for ACE credentials since it slows down the ACE integration runtime/server startup (we have one big file per environment) and if the develope...
about 1 month ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Move away from Drupal for Developer Portal, embrace backstage.io

We have been running APIC SC-2 release on CP4I on Openshift since a few years now. We have been struggling to find developers who work on Drupal which we see as ancient too. With newer tools in the market such as backstage.io, etc, IBM should cons...
about 1 month ago in API Connect 1 Planned for future release

Gatewayscript module for asymmetric de- and encryption

The current Gatewayscript crypto module does not support asymmetric encryption and decryption. There is a workaround via XSLT but this is quite cumbersome and less performant.
about 1 month ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

To avoid restarting the Queue Manager, the OS should automatically release the allocated shmall value once queue processing is complete.

Why this is useful:Implementing a solution to automatically release the 'shmall' value after messages are processed in the queues is critical for seamless operations, especially in production environments where high availability and minimal downti...
about 1 month ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Service Tagging feature

The customer needs to group the services as Business Apps such as they do it in their APM. The services could be in different app domains and datapower devices. A service could serve to more than one Business App. For example: the getCustomer oper...
2 months ago in DataPower Operations Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Fallback policy

I believe that a fallback policy, so that when the backend is experiencing problems the operator can choose a new one, would be welcome in the solution. Even though it is possible to implement this with a set of policies and the catch, a default p...
2 months ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration

Retry API call

Even though I understand that retrying an API call can be performed in the API flow using Catch + invoke, for example, I believe that this could be implemented by a standard product policy where it is possible to inform: the number of times the ca...
2 months ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration