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PINNED Request for Adding Limited GitOps Functionality to default Domain
We have some use cases around form factor portability and cloud instance provisioning where it might be helpful to have an automated approach to loading common configurations to the default domain through GitOps. Some examples are the RBM and ODR ...
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...

DataPower Gateway

TLS information logged to log target

We need to be able to track what version of TLS is used and with what cipher suite. The support case indicate that the tls-info variable currently causes stability issues, but honestly even if it did not we have to much code to add this every wher...
almost 6 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Padding for log file rotation

Currently log file rotation is done by adding a simple index, e.g. mylog.txt will be "rotated" to mylog.txt.1 and so forth. In case of more than 9 rotations we will have a file with name mylog.txt.10 which, due to the filsystem's alphabetical orde...
about 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Support for long HSM key names

The current HSM does not allow to use speaking names (e.g. the common name of the corresponding certificate) for the keys as the complete path (e.g. hsm :// hsm3 /www.foobar.com) may not contain more than 31 characters.
about 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

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.
about 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...
about 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...
about 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Requesting for Datapower running with Enforcing mode when SELinux is enabled

Referring to TS018558846, customer reported that Linux instance with SELinux enabled reverts to Permissive mode after a reboot, despite all attempts to keep it in Enforcing mode. Support team have responded that DataPower can only run under Permis...
over 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

SNMP Credential support SHA256 or SHA384

To enhance security level to match latest standard
over 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Caching & Synchronizing Third-Party OAuth Token in DataPower

As part of day-to-day requirement, we come across lot many times where we need to integrate with a third-party token application. Some times, it's requested if DataPower can cache token generated by third-party and validate from it. The Quota Enfo...
almost 7 years ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Future consideration

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...
almost 10 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration