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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...
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...

DataPower Gateway

Global Password Alias Update (All domains)

We would like to be able to update a password alias in all domains. When a new domain is created, all password map aliases are created in the new domain, however, you are unable to update those password aliases without going into each domain.
about 5 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Allow LDAP bind from XSLT using password map alias

We currently use a shared secret within the application to bind to LDAP. We have a new requirement for this password to be updated at regular intervals and are exploring options to eliminate the dependency on a code move / deploy whenever the pass...
over 7 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Killing long running transaction instead of watchdog reloads

We have problems with appliance reloads when executing complex regular expressions in APIs. It would be an outage when both appliances of a cluster were affected at the same time. (See TS014313105/TS013649529) IBM Support explains it as follows: ...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Support for multiple recipients SMTP DataPower

We need to send emails to multiple recipients from DataPower and due to current limitation, we are unable to achieve it.
about 7 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Enable request/response logging using Log Category

Hi Team, There was requisitioned to log latency, request and response payloads without modifying service config, code and enable probe for specific services for troubleshooting purpose in a production environment. Currently DataPower gateway provi...
over 9 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration

Support additional content types for Antivirus scan Action: Additional content types to be supported multipart/formdata and application/octet-stream

This enhancement will ensure additional content types are supported
almost 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

DataPower Virtual / Automated deployement using vApp options

System:DataPower Virtual on VMWare Actor: VMWare admins DataPower Virtual is a commonly used as an integration gateway. Description:Customer is trying to automate its DataPower provisionning with Virtual DataPower on VMWare using the "vApp" VMWare...
about 7 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

please implement renaming of objects

on DataPower Gateways up to now it is impossible to rename any objects. This is really unique and a great disadvantage of the product and constantly leads to annoying and frustrating situations in daily operations. Please implement renaming of obj...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Show more detailed CPU usage

Currently if a DataPower gateway has high CPU usage, we cannot see which service in which domain is using the majority of CPU resources. This makes it difficult to troubleshoot high CPU usage situations. We suggest that running the "show cpu" comm...
over 3 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Add support for "binary" (=non-xml) messages in "Send a Test Message" tool

The "Send a Test Message" tool is very useful to be able to unit test locally without involving external systems or partners (or when firewalls blocks you from internal networks to DMZ).Unfortunately the test tool only supports XML messages as bod...
about 10 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration