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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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Ability to search consumer Org by it's metadata field

Customer has thousands of consumer organizations and they set a unique sap number for each consumer org. Customer is looking for search the consumer org by that metadata field (field_sap_number in below example). Looking to extend provider API to ...
10 months ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration

Trigger gateway DRR via CLI e.g. apicops

Hi all, performing DRRs in production is tedious and almost impossible due to the fact that: datapower-cli are not always executed reliably (and sometimes have to be executed twice to actually be applied) the amount of logs printed to console make...
10 months ago in API Connect 1 Future consideration

Administrative API for ACEcc

App Connect Designer is received quite well by the customers (our “low code offering” to build integrations) - However, the tooling itself is missing any way to automatically handle “versions” or “exports” of the applications / flow (only manual e...
about 1 year ago in App Connect 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

The MFT Protocol Bridge Agent is not retrieving files from OpenText SFTP Servers due to a dependancy on lstat which is not fully supported by OpenText.

The RFC indicates lstat is a “should support” statement from the RFC for the protocol and not a “must support”. As IBM MFT is the client application it would seem prudent for it to support as many different implementations of the protocol for the ...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

App Connect (container): provide proxy support for accounts objects

Currently it is not possible to define proxies for the different account types in App Connect. This is a serious issue as in a real life there will be typically different external system - which require the settings. Important: the configuration i...
7 months ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration

Checking detailed configurations of published APIs/Products on API Manager UI

When we check APIs and Products on API Manager UI, we would like to be able to see the detailed configurations of APIs/Products that are published in Catalogs.Currently, API Manager UI shows the detailed configurations of APIs/Products that are on...
over 1 year ago in API Connect 2 Future consideration

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.
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

To add additional filter option for analytic in Developer Portal

Example can filter by status,time range of up to 30 days etc.
11 months ago in API Connect 2 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