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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...

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Make Name-Value Profiles available to the MPGW

The DataPower Web Application Firewall service allows to use Name-Value Profile objects to filter headers and/or cookies. It would be quite helpful to have an action that makes Name-Value Profiles useable in a Multi-Protocol Gateway service.
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Simplified HSM key rotation

The current DataPower Crypto Tools do not allow to overwrite an existing HSM key i.e. when doing key rotation all references have to be changed manually. It would be very helpful to have the possibility to overwrite an existing HSM key and the rel...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

shared HSM domain

The current HSM strictly isolates application domains i.e. HSM keys in one application domain are not visible in another application domain. This is an important security feature, but there are valid use cases where it would be very helpful to hav...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Need for an OpenShift operator for “API Connect for GraphQL"

Unlike other IBM Integration products, there is no operator in OpenShift for “API Connect for GraphQL" (formerly APIC Essentials). An OpenShift operator simplifies upgrades & installations. Nearly all of the IBM Integration products are operat...
over 1 year ago in StepZen 0 Future consideration

Allow a simple synchronization of two virtual folders

Hello, I have received the customer need several times in the past and now again that MFT shall synchronize the content of one virtual folder to another virtual folder including the whole folder structure. E.g. there is a virtual folder myVFSSourc...
over 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 2 Functionality already exists

Integration with 3rd Party OAuth2 service providers other than Google for AoC

Today we support SAML, Google OAuth and IBMid for AoC Authetication. The customer is using their own OAuth2 service provider. Customer is expecting AoC to be able to integrate with their OAuth service provider. This is the exact requirement. "The ...
over 1 year ago in Aspera Ideas 0 Under review

Enable TAG as an First Class Attribute for Queue Manager and Queue and other MQ Objects

Adding TAG attribute to each MQ Object allows easy view; helps in FINOPS and dashboard. There is already a Description and Custom key attribute; but having a dedicated TAG attribute helps for easy operations.
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

whitelisting based on SSL certificate subject

We have many customers connect to our application using HTTPS protocol. We authenticate the clients based on the SSL certificate they present. As and when they renew their SSL certificates, they share their new renewed cert with us, and we map tha...
10 months ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime 0 Submitted

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.
over 1 year ago in webMethods Connectors and Adapters 1 Future consideration