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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...
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...

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Killing long running transaction instead of watchdog reloads

We have problems with appliance reloads when executing complex regular expressions in APIs. It would be an outage when both appliances of a cluster were affected at the same time. (See TS014313105/TS013649529) IBM Support explains it as follows: ...
10 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Force outbound traffic on secondary IP address for interface

When you talk about outgoing traffic, Datapowers (as UNIX Systems) is only able to send through primary IP address of the interface. It could be useful (as MQ is able to do for CHANNELS with LOCLADDR parameter) to be able to force outgoing traffic...
over 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Future consideration

Datapower Log Target suppress logs based on string or string pattern

Our team uses Splunk together with Datapower's Log targets to do all our logging and monitoring related to our Datapower appliances. There are cases where we are seeing the same log messages get populated in our logs constantly, but we do not want...
about 4 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration

Adding a MQ Request/Reply Node to the ACE toolkit node palette

MQ have been designated as our only form of inter-service communication. This requires us to be able to provide request/response via MQ.
about 3 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

MQ WEB UI to display Cluster queues when an Alias queue is filtered

As organizations use MQ CLuster; there are a lot of Alias queue routing to a single/multiple cluster local queues. Web UI should provide list of Cluster Local queue for the corresponding alias queue. Example: QALIAS on QM1 > DEFINE QA(A1) TARGE...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Future consideration

Healthcheck endpoints (used by load balancer) in all subsystems of API Connect v10 for VMware

We are looking for servers health-checks that will be used by external loadbalancer to determine single server "health" - similarly as we did in APIC V5. Full description is provided in support case TS005477188.
over 2 years ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration

ACE Record and Replay - facility to configure all attribute options for automatically generated IBM MQ subscriptions

ACE Record and Replay automatically generates IBM MQ subscriptions. The server.conf.yaml has limited capability in terms of which MQ subscription attributes can be set. This is a limiting factor when it comes to developing Record and Replay soluti...
about 4 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Future consideration