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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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Runtime configuration variables accessible by api assembly scripts and gateway hooks

Requested Capability Provide runtime configuration variables with the following characteristics: Readable at runtime by: API Assembly policies GatewayScript Gateway hooks Writable or manageable at runtime via: api mangement UI for...
6 months ago in API Connect 1 Submitted

Support for Firmware 11.0.0 on IDG X2 or 11.0.0 in IDG X4 Hardware Appliances / tenants

Currently there is no suppoted way to operate a mix of IBM DataPower Appliances IDG X2, X3 and X4 running the same Firmware level. X3 will support both, 11.0.0 and 10.6.0, but X2 is not supported to run 11.0.0 and X4 is not supported to un 10.6.0 ...
5 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

User provisioning for SSO Users

Organizations would benefit from the ability to authenticate users via SSO and perform user authorization (roles) using LDAP/AD. We setup ILMT to authenticate users via SAML (SSO) and have a directory server (LDAP) configured with user provisionin...
5 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Inadequate API param Validation

Currently we have quite a few apis where input data is read in the form of api path parameters and query string parameters. In the API design tab the only option we see when creating parameters is to select the data type (string, integer) and noth...
almost 2 years ago in API Connect 1 Under review

DLQ Handling in the Console – Remove DLQ Headers Before Resending Messages

When a message has been moved to the Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) and needs to be resend, the DLQ-related headers must be removed before resend the message. If these headers remain, the message will be routed back to the DLQ instead of being processed ...
5 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

We need to enhance the tracing capabilities of IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) to support ISO 8583 over TCP communication. This improvement will build on ACE’s proven stability and scalability by enabling more detailed, end-to-end visibility of t...
5 months ago in App Connect 0 Under review

selinux enforcing support for aspera proxy

currently the aspera proxy filas to start in selinux enforcing mode. While in our case the proxy is the machine in our dmz. Running in the dmz with selinux permissive is not allowed. Looking in the ideas for aspera there are multiple requests for ...
about 2 months ago in Aspera Ideas 0 Submitted

Add Sort By Functionality in Event Streams UI

In the Event Streams UI, specifically in the "Consumer groups" menu, numerous Consumer Group IDs are listed. A Consumer Group ID follows the pattern: clientIDDisplayName-eemSASLclientID-GroupIDDisplayName. Each time a Kafka consumer initiates a ne...
11 months ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Streams 1 Planned for future release

Amazon S3 - Allow Connecting To Non-Amazon S3 Buckets

We have an internal (Hitatchi) S3 provider that we use. It doesn't seem like it's possible to use the new S3 nodes with non-Amazon/internal hostnames (my-s3-storage.mycompany.com). Please add this functionality.
over 2 years ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration

Add a distinct ConnectionTimeout error to the Invoke policy to differentiate timeouts from other ConnectionError failures

In IBM API Connect, Invoke policy timeout failures are reported under ConnectionError, making it difficult to distinguish timeouts from other connectivity failures in assembly catch blocks. Please introduce a dedicated, catchable ConnectionTimeout...
about 2 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted