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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...
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...

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Metadata XML transferred last --- Indicator of completion.

If the metadata xml was transferred last this could be an simple indicator show a user or a bash script which packages were completed or not. Currently it is transferred first.
about 1 month ago in Aspera Ideas 0 Under review

Expose the command show xml-names-status via REST API or SOMA interface

We have the need to monitor all of our devices in order to act before any unexpected restart. To be able to achieve this we would use our monitoring enterprise tools, which requires to execute web service calls(API/SOAP). Having this functionality...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Functionality already exists

Support for long HSM key names

The current HSM does not allow to use speaking names (e.g. the common name of the corresponding certificate) for the keys as the complete path (e.g. hsm :// hsm3 /www.foobar.com) may not contain more than 31 characters.
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Make Name-Value Profiles available to the MPGW

The DataPower Web Application Firewall service allows to use Name-Value Profile objects to filter headers and/or cookies. It would be quite helpful to have an action that makes Name-Value Profiles useable in a Multi-Protocol Gateway service.
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Simplified HSM key rotation

The current DataPower Crypto Tools do not allow to overwrite an existing HSM key i.e. when doing key rotation all references have to be changed manually. It would be very helpful to have the possibility to overwrite an existing HSM key and the rel...
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

shared HSM domain

The current HSM strictly isolates application domains i.e. HSM keys in one application domain are not visible in another application domain. This is an important security feature, but there are valid use cases where it would be very helpful to hav...
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Support for MQ Explorer under Mac

In the case TS011871006 we are told that IBM only supports MQ Explorer under Linux & Windows but not under Mac (https: //www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.2 ?topic = explorer-mq-installation-requirements) which implies that it is not possible to in...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Support for Ubuntu 24.04 for the client software

Case number TS016958230 Ubuntu 24.04 is the current Ubuntu OS flavor (Ubuntu 24.04 = 2024) and the ILMT client exists on all 30,000 of State Farm servers. We are embarking on deploying Ubuntu 24.04 in the next month or so and the ILMT client needs...
about 1 month ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Include more Authentication options on Datapower xml managment interfaces

Currently the datapower XML management interface only accepts basic authentication. More secure options should be available such as Oauth or Certificate Based solutions.
about 1 month ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Datapower Integration Module support for PostgreSQL database connectivity

Datapower Integration Module does not support database connectivity for PostgreSQL. We need this support as an increasing number of customers (e.g. in Public sector in Poland) use PostgreSQL extensively as an alternative to Oracle.
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration