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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 It should be possible to step-in while debugging Flow Services
As of webMethods.io Integration 11.0.7, a Flow Service can be debugged step by step in the Flow Service editor, but for an INVOKE step, the debugger can only step over the INVOKE step. It would be very helpful if the debugger would also allow to s...

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Dynamic reduction for SMDS after extends

During a MQ Health Check, an IBM MQ expert gave us an advice to use SMDS instead of DB2 offloading for shared MQ Messages. It has much more performance than using DB2 for offloading. Unfortunately, the size of the SMDS increase if MQ has a big wor...
about 7 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Using internal REST API's: no transaction count

When a flow service is invoked from a workflow, it does not consume transaction counts. This makes sense because the workflow remains active during the request, accumulating transaction counts accordingly. If the called flow service takes longer t...
9 months ago in webMethods Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

A DataPower service using kerberos authentication in AAA policy is producing huge log every day.

The service uses Kerberos authentication in AAA policy. Every first transaction of the Kerberos authentication process/steps in that service is failing with “AAA Authentication Failure” error and responds with HTTP 401 to the client. This is happe...
over 5 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

MQ for z/OS - Dispatcher Task Use - Round Robin allocation

After reviewing a number of customers MQ SMF data, far too many have issues with the way channels are assigned to dispatcher tasks. For example, they will have 5 tasks defined but only one or two are ever in use because of the 'rule of 10' allocat...
almost 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Need a Connectivity test utility

Currently, we need to configure connector in Flow services or workflows to test the connectivity : there is no out of the box utility feature to click on connector to test. Providing this feature will make connectivity testing faster.
9 months ago in webMethods Connectors and Adapters 1 Future consideration

Ability to comment on transaction

It would be useful to be able to manually add comments to transactions in Integration monitor (similar to what you can do in B2B log). This would help to keep track of potential failed transactions that have been handled in a manual way.
9 months ago in webMethods Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Native Support Oracle ERP PL/SQL APIs using custom PL/SQL types on ACE

Provide native support for custom PL/SQL types without the need of transformation.
9 months ago in App Connect 1 Submitted

Escape special characters in LDAP_BINDDN for configuring LDAP connection for CP4I

Need a way to escape special characters like "&" in LDAP_BINDDN while configuring LDAP Connection with CP4I
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 1 Is a defect

Faspex 5.0.9 reset password link expiry

We are currently running Faspex ver. 5.0.9 in our production environment. Currently, the reset password link expires after 1 hour. Since we are based in Sydney, Australia and most of our suppliers are on European time zones, a reset password link ...
over 1 year ago in Aspera Ideas 1 Under review

Allow filenames longer than 90 characters (incl. directory) during configuration export

The configuration export fails with the following error messages being displayed in the system logs: Unable to Export - Could not create export file 'export.zip' using specified files The configuration export should not fail eventhough the filenam...
about 9 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration