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API Connect

Provide supported configuration for API Connect Analytics write shard scaling

API Connect Analytics should provide an IBM-supported way to configure or tune the number of active write shards used by Analytics write indices. This would benefit customers running write-heavy Analytics workloads where ingestion throughput and r...
4 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Add Gateway Service Name as a Filterable Field in Analytics for v5c Type gateway

IBM API Connect Analytics currently provides filtering options based on API, Product, Catalog, Consumer Organization, and other dimensions. However, there is no ability to directly filter analytics data by Gateway Service Name. In environments whe...
22 days ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Scheduled API Governance Scans & Email Distribution

Good day, I’d like to request a new feature in IBM API Connect: the ability to schedule API governance scans and automatically email the resulting reports to selected recipients. Rationale API Manager already has outbound email configured (used fo...
about 1 year ago in API Connect 1 Planned for future release

Request for Node Selector and Toleration Support in Nano Gateway to Address Licensing Implications

We have been operating IBM API Connect with the DataPower API Gateway as a component of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) since 2019. We are currently planning a migration to APIC v12.1 utilising the DataPower Nano Gateway (nanogw). However, ba...
5 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

To add x9 PKI certificate support officially.

One of our financial partners has updated to use PKI X9, and the certification is critical for IBM API Connect and DataPower Gateway to support officially to remain competitive in the market, as it is currently being used in our UAT environment fo...
8 months ago in API Connect 2 Submitted

Expose the missing required parameter name (header/query/path) in the client-facing 400 APIRuleError, which the gateway already logs internally

PROBLEM When an API has enforced=true and a parameter is marked required=true, the DataPower API Gateway performs a built-in presence check BEFORE the assembly runs. If a required header/query/path parameter is missing, the gateway raises an APIRu...
3 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Provide a declarative way to push personal certificate for the Nano Gateway

This is similar to APICONN-I-872 but applies to the DataPower Nano Gateway (nanogw). We run API Connect (APIC) on CP4I on OpenShift. From v12.1.0.2, onboarding a nanogw service via the APIC CMC requires the nanogw certificate's CN to match the Ope...
4 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Support Multiple Server Hostnames For Swagger v2 APIs

Provide a supported API Connect mechanism for associating multiple environment-specific endpoints with an OpenAPI 2 API, even though the OpenAPI 2 specification provides only a single host field. Our organization works a lot with Swagger v2 and Op...
29 days ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

OpenAPI 3 multiple-server gateway and vanity endpoint support

Allow multiple entries in the OpenAPI 3 servers array to produce distinct, invokable vanity endpoints instead of using only the first entry to determine the gateway route. Background: We have ~50 internal environments. Different teams use differen...
29 days ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Improve support for polymorphism in Map policy

API Connect v10 prides itself in supporting Open API 3.0 (with some limitations), but some of its default policies do not support the full range of the standard, like polymorfism. The map policy throws an error if the API draft document has any re...
about 2 years ago in API Connect 1 Future consideration