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App Connect

ESQL SELECT Function - Add ORDER BY

It would be great if the ESQL SELECT function supported ORDER BY. We've needed this functionality a number of times, and it's kind of a pain, although straightforward, to manually implement.
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

ibmint create server - allow to pass a server.conf.yaml file as parameter

Currently the command "ibmint create node" allows to pass a "node.conf.yaml" file as parameter. See: ibmint create node command - IBM Documentation - parameter: --node-conf-yaml This is quite handy when setting up environments - e.g. via scripts I...
5 months 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

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.
10 months ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support OpenTelemetry trace on Kafka nodes

Trace capabilities are becoming a standard for monitoring and analyze transactions.OpenTelemetry is currently supported on some ACE nodes, but Kafka nodes (Producer and Consumer) are not yet supported. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/12.0?...
over 3 years ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Provide a mechanism to produce a slimmed‑down ACE image/installation to reduce exposure

Although the ACE Certified Container disables unused components at startup, those components still remain present in the image and therefore remain theoretically vulnerable. We are requesting a mechanism to generate a slimmed‑down ACE image or ins...
5 months ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

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

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

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

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