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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...

DataPower Gateway

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RFC 5424 compliance for emitted syslog records

Datapower advertises the ability to generate syslog entries as one of its log target options. However, the contents of the data stream thus emitted is not RFC compliant, making the records difficult to interpret by other open-standards tools. It s...
29 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Curl cmd on DataPower server through ssh

We are looking for guidance on how to execute cURL commands directly on the DataPower appliance via SSH. We are aware that Telnet tests can be performed through the DataPower UI under Troubleshooting → Telnet, but we would like to know whether the...
about 1 month ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Automatic failover for AMQP Brokers

For automatic AMQP Broker failover DataPower should have something like an AMQP Broker Group object, similar to the MQ Queue Manager Group object. This new group object should implement/support the failover features of the Red Hat AMQ client.
about 2 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Broadcast capabilities

A, B and C will connect to DataPower vía websocket. Each application to a specific Multiprotocol gateway. We need the wss messages that are sent by A to reach B and/or C. Same for the other clients. In order to simplify the scenario, our idea was ...
about 2 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

NFS health check mechanism need to be modified from internal back-off mechanism to regular NFS health retry mechanism

NFS health check mechanism need to be modified from internal back-off mechanism to regular NFS health retry mechanism as the current mechanism is caching the status of NFS static mount when goes down even when single RPC call gets failed or not re...
3 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Configure multiple Kerberos KDC Servers on 'Configure Kerberos KDC Server' page

DataPower cannot point to multiple Kerberos KDC servers which is a risk for High Availability. Please consider adding this feature. Location on GUI is "Objects > Crypto Configuration > Kerberos KDC Server.
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Keeping the option to switch between new and old webgui due to performance issues

We are currently experiencing significant performance issues with the new WebGUI. It would be very important to have the option to switch between the two GUIs and set a preferred default until these issues are resolved. Several teams manage around...
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Enable Context Variables for parse Policy

Currently it is not possible to use Context Variables as described in Variable references in API Connect - IBM Documentation. This behavioral limits the usage of the parse policy in user-defined policies because we must always use max values. This...
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Option to control Payload compression and decrompression in APIGW Object

Same like MPGW, If we have the option to control the payload compression/decompression for the Api's whichever processing via APIGW object it will help us when we have the large payloads from the backend to process smoothly via Datapower Api Gateway.
4 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Standby controller enhancement on filesystem full occurence

When an IBM Datapower has a full filesystem the machine becomes unresponsive but still serves HTTP/HTTPS frontside handlers. Because of this the designed failover will never trigger. I'd like to request a feature enhancement to get a more stable o...
6 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted