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App Connect

KAKFA nodes support for OAUTHBEARER Security mechanism

We are evaluating the ACE 11 (11.0.0.11) Kafka nodes to connect our internal Kafka broker and we are finding technical limitation with the security mechanism. Basically, our internal practice is to use OAUTHBEARER with SASL_SSL for all the Kafka c...
over 5 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

App Connect in Container: write additional log entries in the case of "unexpected terminations" (e.g. out of memory)

We faced the issue a couple of times that a container - running App Connects - gets terminated unexpectedly. E.g. because of "out-of-memory" situations. In this case the server writes abend files to the local disc but sends at the same time a term...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Configuration objects to specify use of PVC in an ACE pod, auto injection of Istio proxy, etc. deploying using ACE Operator

Configuration objects available for use with the ACE Operator for deployment lack the following capabilities: 1. PVC specification for use by File Input/Output nodes. Customer uses these nodes heavily for their application to access files on an NF...
about 6 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Provision in ACE 13 to be able to call MS SQL Server Stored Procedures within Mapping Node

Request for enhancement to enable ACE Mapping Node to directly invoke MS SQL Server Stored Procedures without using Compute or Java nodes.
11 months ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Please add functionality to use ACE REST nodes to call REST based backend services, using separate application keystore instead of broker keystore.

We want to segregate the application related certs from Infrastructure certs for Message level encryption. As PolicySets and PolicySetBindings are applicable for only SOAP nodes. We have JSON based REST service at the backend, so we need to use ei...
about 5 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

"Launch Connector Discovery" feature is only enabled for Azure Service Bus nodes if credentials has permission at the namespace-level

"Launch Connector Discovery" that enables developers to connect to Azure Service objects and aims at configuring the connectivity only works if the credentials used (at least, for OAuth) has manage/write permission at the namespace-level. For our ...
5 months ago in App Connect 1 Under review

Enable transactionality of Azure Service Bus nodes

We're using the latest version 13.0.7 and are exploring use of Azure Service Bus nodes. As per documentation, it looks like ASB nodes are synchronous and do not support transactionality. This request is for ASB nodes to be configurable with transa...
5 months ago in App Connect 2 Under review

IIB HTTP Listeners - please log errors when they reject connections

HTTP Listeners do not log errors when they reject connections. This make trouble shooting difficult. See Case TS004599611. Please make it so IIB/ACE HTTP Listeners record errors with details when they are rejecting connections.
over 5 years ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

FileOutput node - renaming feature on the remote server ( atomic file transfer )

We would like to propose a new feature enhancement for the FileOutput node in IBM App Connect to improve reliability and coordination during SFTP file transfers. Currently, when copying files directly to a target location via SFTP, there is a risk...
5 months ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Certificate-based authentication for DB2 connections from IIB 10.1 (on z/OS)

We currently have a number of IIB 10.1 Nodes running on z/OS. These attach locally to a DB2 subsystem on the same lpar. Authentication of the connection is currently done through use of static passwords. Our IT Security team are pushing us to swit...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration