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App Connect

Disable the local aspect/storage of the embedded global cache in ACE13

Under ACE13 you can make use of the Embedded Global Cache. A this time, it is not possible to disable the local aspect/storage of the Embedded Global Cache while still allowing for the replcation reads/writes. This would make an Integration Server...
3 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Support shipping ACE logs using OpenTELemetry

We run IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on OpenShift. Traces are currently shipped via OpenTelemetry (OTEL) to Instana, while logs are forwarded to Splunk using the OpenShift Logging ClusterLogForwarder / Splunk agent. Splunk supports log ingestio...
3 months ago in App Connect Submitted

IBM App Connect: natively support Prometheus as output format for all resource statistics

As of today only a subset of the App Connect resource statistic information are available for a Prometheus integration. E.g. information about Parsers, ODBC and JDBC connections etc are missing. It would be a surplus if App Connect would natively ...
2 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Multiple vault archive zip files support and Avoid Integration Server restarts for credential updates on ACE v13

1. How the IBM‑designed process works today As confirmed through IBM documentation and previous IBM Support interactions: Credentials must be generated externally, outside the Integration Server, in a separate container. Each Integration Serve...
6 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Add a feature to integrate with a password fault (like CyberArk) to pull the credentials for ODBC/JDBC authentication

We have worked with IBM to create a feature in WebSphere Application Server that uses the CyberArk agent to retrieve credentials from CyberArk for JDBC authentication, rather than pointing to encoded passwords stored in the local file system that ...
6 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Deploy time(UTC) column change to Local Time

Please change the deploy time to local time zone in the App connect version 12 web console. it would-be useful to admins to get the exact time without using manual time conversions.
about 4 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

ACE Designer v13.x.x.x > Kafka Consumer / Producer > Enable search topics

PT-BR: Gostariamos que nos nodes Kafka (Consumer/Producer/Read), seja possível informar o nome do tópico. Este nome informado deverá ser válido e já existir nos brokers kafka conectados. EN-US: We would like the Kafka nodes (Consumer/Producer/Read...
about 1 year ago in App Connect Future consideration

ACE BAR include the option to generate default values (“Build message tree using schema data types”) when validate option is enabled

We have around one thousand ACE v12 flows that consist of SOAP services (SOAP Request + SOAP Reply). In the flows, we build the SOAP reply message using ESQL, but we are facing an issue regarding the reply message: Some fields with "default value"...
almost 2 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

App Connect Enterprise- Enhance mqsideploy command to deploy application & policy project with latest artifacts and restart applications in that IntegrationServer

Deployment of an ACE application which are referring to Policy Projects(even though there is no change in Policy Projects) are erroring out and required either to run mqsideploy 1. with “--restart-all-applications” if it involves wsecbindings Poli...
over 3 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

Enable logging for ACE Connectors in ACE V12

We came across several issues while working with Connectors provided within ACE Product (to be specific AWS lambda & AWS S3)There are no logs available in Activity Log which describes the Connector transaction making it difficult for us to tro...
about 1 year ago in App Connect Future consideration