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PINNED Request for Adding Limited GitOps Functionality to default Domain
We have some use cases around form factor portability and cloud instance provisioning where it might be helpful to have an automated approach to loading common configurations to the default domain through GitOps. Some examples are the RBM and ODR ...
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...

DataPower Gateway

Missing security headers for DataPower WebUI

Unfortunately, there is currently no option to configure security headers on the DataPower Web Management Service. As per our security guidelines the UI should be protected with at least following security headers: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Pol...
5 months ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Future consideration

Support for Firmware 11.0.0 on IDG X2 or 11.0.0 in IDG X4 Hardware Appliances / tenants

Currently there is no suppoted way to operate a mix of IBM DataPower Appliances IDG X2, X3 and X4 running the same Firmware level. X3 will support both, 11.0.0 and 10.6.0, but X2 is not supported to run 11.0.0 and X4 is not supported to un 10.6.0 ...
3 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

New Probe - Probe trigger - XPath Expression match

a request to enhance new probe in version 10.6.0.X to have: Client IP match Inbound URL match Outbound URL match Processing type processing rule match XPath expression match
6 months ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Under review

Allow multiple separate SSH server profile objects to allow more flexibility for SFTP Server Handlers

Currently each domain has 1 SSH server profile for all objects in that domain. When having multiple SFTP Server Handlers with different keys this means that the SSH Server Profile config needs to be generic and wide enough to encompass all SFTP Se...
2 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Support for the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol

DataPower should have an ACME v2 client in order that certificates could be replaced automatically.
about 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Future consideration

Enable IBM DataPower and IBM API Gateway to export logs via OpenTelemetry (OTLP), alongside existing tracing, so customers can stream gateway logs natively to any OTel-compatible backend

Why this matters: Enterprises are standardizing on OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral observability. DataPower already supports OpenTelemetry traces; not supporting logs forces customers to maintain parallel pipelines (syslog/NFS/File/SOAP) and cust...
10 months ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Under review

Add native SoupBinTCP client and server protocol support to IBM DataPower Gateway.

Many financial institutions integrate with exchanges, clearing houses, trading platforms, and market infrastructure providers that use the SoupBinTCP protocol for transmitting market data, trade information, and FIX/FIXML messages. Currently, IBM ...
about 1 month ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Add GUI pagination to improve rendering speed of huge configurations

I am ivanh from DP development opening this on behalf of a cusotmer. Customers who have huge configurations, like 1000s of MPGWs or domains, indicate the new GUI takes longer than the old GUI. This enhancement request is to provide relief for cust...
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Enable Device level Metrics (Object status, CPU, Memory etc) using Open telemetry exporter in Datapower gateway along with traces

I am looking for a way to monitor DataPower metrics in Grafana using the OpenTelemetry (OTEL) configuration. Unfortunately, the current OTEL implementation in DataPower only supports exporting traces for MPGW, WSP, and API Gateway (APIGW) objects....
3 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

In-Place Pod Resize for API Gateway PODs in Kubernetes

Currently API Gateway Pods are supported up to k8s version 1.34 Starting 1.35 k8s supports “In-Place Pod Resize”, where it is possible to assign PODs additional CPUs and memory – without having to restart them. This feature should be supported, fo...
7 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Under review