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App Connect

Support shipping ACE logs using OpenTELemetry

We run IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on OpenShift. Traces are currently shipped via OpenTelemetry (OTEL) to Instana, while logs are forwarded to Splunk using the OpenShift Logging ClusterLogForwarder / Splunk agent. Splunk supports log ingestio...
4 months ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

ACE Designer v13.x.x.x > Kafka Consumer / Producer > Enable search topics

PT-BR: Gostariamos que nos nodes Kafka (Consumer/Producer/Read), seja possível informar o nome do tópico. Este nome informado deverá ser válido e já existir nos brokers kafka conectados. EN-US: We would like the Kafka nodes (Consumer/Producer/Read...
about 1 year ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration

Add Otel support for technology nodes on App connect enterprise

As instana agent add support to track full interactions on ACE flows, they are deprecating the instana agent tracking support and they will only support Otel interaction, those interactions doesn't include at the moment nodes like cics request and...
26 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

First class support for loading bars from images

It would be great to be able to tell ACE to load a bar from a docker registry as part of the short-form in the configuration. Could be something like: spec : barURL : - https://jammy.id/strings.bar - docker://quay.io/jammy/strings-bar:latest Or sp...
26 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

Document the initial-config directory

We used to document it here: https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/ace-server#how-to-dynamically-configure-the-app-connect-enterprise-integration-server But its not documented at all in the current docs.
26 days ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow nested bars in /home/aceuser/initial-config/bars/

At the moment, the bars cannot be in sub folders. If a user mounts an image/configmap/other storage into that location, they can only mount one thing. If it supported nested bars, the user could compose the set of mounted sources at runtime. eg: /...
26 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

IBM App Connect: natively support Prometheus as output format for all resource statistics

As of today only a subset of the App Connect resource statistic information are available for a Prometheus integration. E.g. information about Parsers, ODBC and JDBC connections etc are missing. It would be a surplus if App Connect would natively ...
3 months ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Increase the API rate limit in ACE dashboard

Client is attempting to use the ACE Dashboard API for managing their interfaces. / When they exceed 100 requests per minute they start seeing 429 errors ( Too ManyRequests ) . Can this limit be increased somewhere? Question : Is the ACE Dashboard ...
27 days ago in App Connect 1 Functionality already exists

ACE BAR include the option to generate default values (“Build message tree using schema data types”) when validate option is enabled

We have around one thousand ACE v12 flows that consist of SOAP services (SOAP Request + SOAP Reply). In the flows, we build the SOAP reply message using ESQL, but we are facing an issue regarding the reply message: Some fields with "default value"...
almost 2 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

App Connect Enterprise- Enhance mqsideploy command to deploy application & policy project with latest artifacts and restart applications in that IntegrationServer

Deployment of an ACE application which are referring to Policy Projects(even though there is no change in Policy Projects) are erroring out and required either to run mqsideploy 1. with “--restart-all-applications” if it involves wsecbindings Poli...
over 3 years ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration