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DataPower Gateway

Backport gRPC client configuration (dp:url-open gRPC support) from 10.6.6 CD to the 10.6.0.x LTS stream

The gRPC configuration object, which defines the connection to a remote gRPC server for use in a stylesheet with the dp:url-open extension element, is currently only available in the DataPower Gateway 10.6.6 Continuous Delivery (CD) release (see I...
28 days ago in DataPower Gateway Submitted

Runtime Access to Backend TLS Certificate/Public Key and Support for Standalone Public Keys in IBM DataPower

Currently, IBM DataPower validates the backend server certificate during the TLS handshake using a TLS Client Profile and Validation Credentials. However, there is no supported way to access the backend TLS certificate or its public key from Gatew...
30 days ago in DataPower Gateway Submitted

Support Connection Pooling to Backend Application Servers in MultiProtocolGateway, WSProxy Services, XMLFirewall Services, etc.

I know connection pooling exists for ldap, but it would be nice for us to be able to configure connection pooling for other backends tied to WSProxy and MPG services. Allowing us to configure connection pooling at the DataPower layer will help us ...
about 1 month ago in DataPower Gateway Submitted

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...
9 months ago in DataPower Gateway Under review

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
5 months ago in DataPower Gateway Under review

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 Future consideration

gRPC as proxy service or MPGW

DataPower support limited gRPC functionality, client can not use it as it is modified in datapower result action, Idea it is to have it as proxy or pass thought, so it doesn't modify the content/headers/etc.
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in DataPower Gateway Under review

Add CONNECT Method as Allowed Features for DataPower Inbound Services Such as MPG and WSP for Tunneling connection

Currently DataPower doesn't support Connect Method for Inbound services for Tunneling.DataPower only support outbound Connect method as a client and not as a server
over 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway Not under consideration

Support custom/ldap authorisation for OIDC RBM

RBM with ODIC only supports AZ with a AAA Mapping file. Having to manage a file on the device containing username to role mappings is cumbersome and not feasible for clients with large server fleets. Ideally, we should be able to run a custom auth...
about 1 month ago in DataPower Gateway Submitted