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API Connect

Integration and support for Hashicorp Vault in API Manager for secrets/credentials

Today no one is allowed to store API secrets e.g. for TLS client profiles, API credentials, backend authentication API etc. in APIs or policies API Connect should support Hashicorp Vault to manage these secrets, user credentials
6 months ago in API Connect 1 Planned for future release

Provide Custom SNI Hostname Support in TLS Client Profiles for Outbound Connections

Hello, Currently, TLS Client Profiles in API Manager only allow a boolean toggle for "Support Server Name Indication (SNI)." When enabled, the DataPower Gateway defaults to the hostname of the backend URL. In environments where the backend require...
6 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

In APIC 10.0.8.1, the Analytics Discover page displays logs in local time, but the Dashboard summary (API Call hourly heatmap) shows data in UTC with no option to switch to local time.

In the Analytics Discover page, We have pointed to the 'local-time' for the time-zone. And the logs on the discover page are showing local time. Whereas on the dashboard summary page for the 'API Call hourly heatmap', it is showing time in UTC tim...
about 1 year ago in API Connect 0 Not under consideration

Provide an API Manager platform API to check if a specific customer API is available on all gateways in a gateway cluster

Users of our API Connect platform complain about long synchronisation times after a new product/api or a new version of a product/api is published. When the product/api was received and published by API Manager it can take a very long time, until ...
over 3 years ago in API Connect 3 Future consideration

At this time, AES-256-GCM encryption with a 16-byte Initialization Vector (IV) is not supported in IBM API Connect Gateway.

At this time, AES-256-GCM encryption with a 16-byte Initialization Vector (IV) is not supported in IBM API Connect Gateway. But this comes as requirement for many integrations with government
about 1 year ago in API Connect 1 Not under consideration

An additional Analytics dashboard is needed that shows top APIs in terms of percentage of failed calls. The dashboard needs to include top 20 chart/table with APIs names sorted descending by the percentage of failed calls to the total number of calls with the normal filtering features applicable.

Will help operational teams to spot and focus on APIs with high failure rate in order to act in timely manner in troubleshooting and fixing them.
6 months ago in API Connect 1 Planned for future release

Create the underlying DataPower Gateway with the same license.use like the owning API Connect instance

An API Connect (APIC) instance that is run within Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) will always create the underlying DataPower Gateway (IDG) with an image which based on the datapower-prod (Production) edition image. That causes the license report...
about 2 years ago in API Connect 3 Future consideration

Support implicit grant user token revocation without requiring client secret

PMR/Case#TS002847290 The current behavior is when token revocation of OAuth product is called, it requires client credentials. Without client secret, revocation URL throws 401 error. The Implicit grant token endpoint should support token revocatio...
almost 7 years ago in API Connect 1 Future consideration

configure SSH session timeout settings

Currently when we install IBM API connect OVA onto a VM, we are not able to edit SSH session timeout changes for SSH sessions to API manager, devportal and analytics. As of today the SSH session never timeout for these 3 subsystems and its infinit...
over 1 year ago in API Connect 6 Functionality already exists

API Connect-managed DataPower user agent 'webapi' should be configurable via OpenShift ConfigMap

The user agent 'webapi' used by API Connect-managed API Gateway service on DataPower should allow proxy settings to be configurable using an OpenShift ConfigMap applied to the relevant CP4I Enterpirse Gateway apiconnect application domain configur...
over 2 years ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration