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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

Datapower Kafka Error Topic

Error Topic for error flow when using DP kafka Cluster
over 5 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Future consideration

Authorizing with RADIUS

RADIUS supports authorization but DataPower drops the authorization data. https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21660523
over 7 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Enhance RESET DOMAIN command to keep password-map

The reset domain command clears configuration objects from a domain, but leaves the cert: directory intact. In previous versions of firmware, the key objects could be re-established easily because the password-map was held in the default domain an...
over 9 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration

Increase number of events per second on Log Targets using syslog target type

Currently, using the syslog target type for a Log Target has a hard limit of 1000 events per second. This may seem like a lot but we had an IBM developer that was contracted kick out 120+ events per transaction for troubleshooting purposes. This i...
over 9 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Netprefix support for front side handler

This feature is needed in our group in order to support TCP socket connection to front side handler. This is the functionality we need to be supported in front side handler: Current process: Request flow: IST → Open TCP socket → TCP/IP Driver (AS/...
almost 4 years ago in DataPower Gateway 4 Future consideration

API Gateway: formdata parameters with Content-Type multipart/form-data

DataPower as API Gateway does not support formdata parameters transferred with Content-Type multipart/form-data We can specify this content type for file uploads as OpenAPI 2 has it in file upload samle https://swagger.io/docs/specification/2-0/fi...
over 5 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Allow DataPower to Function as Forward Proxy

This feature request is to add support for using DataPower as a Forward (Outbound) HTTP Proxy. Functionality should work similarly to a ProxyRemote statement in traditional apache. Case TS001582866 has been opened in relation to this.
over 7 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration

Standby controller enhancement on filesystem full occurence

When an IBM Datapower has a full filesystem the machine becomes unresponsive but still serves HTTP/HTTPS frontside handlers. Because of this the designed failover will never trigger. I'd like to request a feature enhancement to get a more stable o...
12 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Allow payload capture for non-XML payloads

Payload capture is extremely useful by all parties (developers, architects, operators, etc.) in debugging a transaction flow. Since DataPower security normally does not send detailed errors back to the clients, it is often necessary to debug based...
almost 5 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Request of a setting on Datapower to define a minimum number of connections

Currently, the MQ connections are controlled by the following settings in mq-qm in DataPower:- (1) total connection limit = maximum number of MQ connections (2) initial connection number = the initial number of MQ connections when the mq-qm object...
12 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration