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API Connect

Write custom data to analytics event record without log policy

The current requirement to include a Log policy in order to write custom_data is not intuitive, particularly given that the native flow without any Log policy already captures all standard fields automatically.
2 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

API Explorer - List Per-API Vanity API Endpoint Descriptions

For catalogs that have vanity endpoints per API, it would be nice if the description was displayed next to the endpoint itself. We define descriptions and urls in the API definition, but only the urls are visible on the developer portal. Example f...
13 days ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Enhance CORS management by supporting regular expressions for allowed origins and enabling CORS policy definition at the Catalog level, allowing immutable API definitions across environments.

The Catalog Properties feature enables customers to maintain a single, immutable YAML file for an API definition, independently of the environment in which the API is deployed. This is a key capability to support modern DevOps and CI/CD practices....
8 months ago in API Connect 1 Submitted

On-Demand Activity Logging Toggle for APIs

Summary: Currently, API activity logging in IBM API Connect can only be enabled or disabled during the API publication process. This requires republishing the API every time a change to the activity-logging configuration is needed, which introduce...
10 months ago in API Connect 0 Under review

Leveraging Kubernetes Secrets for Secure Drupal Integration

A client needs to store and retrieve encrypted values, such as credentials, within custom modules of a Drupal portal for authentication with external systems. These values are already configured in Kubernetes resources. It would be highly benefici...
over 1 year ago in API Connect 3 Future consideration

OAuth Provider pod for API Connect v12.1

We run API Connect on Cloud Pak for Integration on OpenShift. We currently make extensive use of the DataPower API Gateway as a native OAuth Provider (without token management) and are evaluating a full migration to the DataPower Nano Gateway (nan...
4 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Provide supported configuration for API Connect Analytics write shard scaling

API Connect Analytics should provide an IBM-supported way to configure or tune the number of active write shards used by Analytics write indices. This would benefit customers running write-heavy Analytics workloads where ingestion throughput and r...
3 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Support Open API 3.1.x on API Connect v10

On February 15, 2021, the new messaging standard on OAS 3.1 was published, it is necessary for IBM's API Management to comply and enable the ability to use this specification since new scenarios are enabled in this regard and makes the Banking sec...
over 3 years ago in API Connect 4 Future consideration

Expose the missing required parameter name (header/query/path) in the client-facing 400 APIRuleError, which the gateway already logs internally

PROBLEM When an API has enforced=true and a parameter is marked required=true, the DataPower API Gateway performs a built-in presence check BEFORE the assembly runs. If a required header/query/path parameter is missing, the gateway raises an APIRu...
about 2 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Provide Enhanced Pre-Delete Hook Functionality in APIC to Ensure Data Consistency Across Systems

Currently, when an application is deleted in the APIC Developer Portal, any pre-delete hooks are executed after the relevant application data has already been removed from the APIC database. This creates a significant problem for developers who ne...
over 1 year ago in API Connect 1 Not under consideration