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App Connect

Support for XML Schema 1.1 for IBM AppConnect

One of the largest operators - Polish Energy Networks is implementing a project related to the integration of IT systems of electricity distributors and suppliers in Poland. The design assumptions used the XML Schema (XSD) standard in version 1.1....
over 3 years ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration

ACE in container / replica sets: ensure unique scheduler events

Many customers are using scheduling nodes - to trigger flows. Unfortunately this approach is not working well with "ACE in containers" and a configured ReplicaSet (for high availability).Reason: The Integration Runtimes for the defined ReplicaSet ...
7 months ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Designer: Version controlled artifacts / Git integration

We think Designer should natively integrate with a CVS, commonly GIT. For Designer instances in ACEcc or probably also in the new "IBM webmethods hybrid integration" platform, where you can't just sync the Designer's local filesystem with a Git re...
about 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Submitted

Add business metrics to Instana traces for IIB and ACE

The current implementation of both IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and App Connect Enterprise (ACE) could emit business metrics through monitoring events which are published through MQ topics. A similar implementation with the connection through OpenTel...
almost 3 years ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Enhancement to create an bar file based on a Designer flow yaml file Our requirement

We want to develop App Connect Designer flows and stage the flows via different environments. E.g. we want to stage a flow via a test and quality assurance environment to a final prod instance (‘classic approach’). For the staging we need to modif...
over 2 years ago in App Connect 2

Azure Service Bus message flow node for ACE

We have been running ACE on CP4I on Openshift since a few years. Recently there has been requirements to be able to connect to Azure Service Bus from ACE to either read messages from queues or topics. The ACE's JMS provider policy allows this prov...
almost 2 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

ACE configuration "keystore" integration server configuration object type is not GitOps friendly

We are running ACE SC-2 release pods on CP4I on Openshift on Azure, we have complex CI/CD pipelines + ArgoCD to rollout ACE integrations. Sometimes we need ACE pods with unique keystores as some partners require mTLS and usually issue a personal c...
almost 2 years ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

JDBC test utility

Currently there is no jdbc test utility that allows to test if JdbcPolicy is correctly configured. It will be very beneficial to have such utility in ACE WebAdmin console or mqsicommand to test JDBC connections
over 5 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

SAP Input Node : connection status

A Feature Request for Connection Status Monitoring in the SAP Input Node (IDOC and BAPI): For administrative and monitoring purposes, it is important to address the following questions: How many connections exist between the message flow with the ...
almost 2 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Azure service bus connector

Extend the existing list of conenctor to support Azure service bus natively. Similar to MQ, Azure service bus is used for messaging service and widely used within Azure cloud. There is no native integration between IBM ACE & Azure service bus ...
over 2 years ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration