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App Connect

Preserve JSON Parser Metadata in Environment Tree

As a developer, I want JSON data stored in the (Local)Environment tree to retain its parser metadata, so that JSON arrays and nested structures are not misinterpreted or flattened when accessed later in the flow.
about 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Visual Diff Tool for Message Flows

As a developer, I want a visual diff tool in the ACE Toolkit to compare two versions of a message flow, so that I can quickly identify changes in nodes, wiring, and properties across versions without manual inspection.
about 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Support for Local Timezone in Scheduler Node

When configuring the Scheduler node in ACE, the timezone option requires a specific IANA timezone or defaults to UTC. There's no way to simply use the local system timezone of the runtime environment. This is a problem in scenarios where deploymen...
about 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Allow us to easily compare 2 or more WMB/IIB Brokers

I would like IBM to provide a tool to allow us to easily compare the configuration and/or deployed flows of 2 or more Brokers. Perhaps an enhancement to MB Explorer, or a separate add on plug in that would produce a table with connected brokers as...
over 12 years ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration

Performance issues visibility per project

Our main concern - there is no way to find out which project, orchestration or maybe internal castiron's process causes the issue. There's no per-project view of resources utilization. And seems like IBM support also can't detect from the postmort...
almost 5 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Adding xml declaration in Graphical Mapping

It should be possible to convert from binary or text message formats such as HL7 into valid XML documents, that include an XML declaration purely with Graphical Mapping and relevant node properties. Currently I have to resort to coding in Java / E...
over 13 years ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Add disconnect option to ACE11 Toolkit's Integration Explorer view

Currently the ACE11 Toolkit's Integration Explorer view only has options to administer Remote Integration Servers or Remote Integration Nodes after you have been connected to them. All the prior versions to ACE11 Toolkit had a disconnect option to...
almost 5 years ago in App Connect 3 Not under consideration

mqsilist not list Integration Servers until they are truly running

In 12.0.2.0 version the mqsilist command not show the Integration Servers until they are fully booted. In earlier (and posterior) versions the mqsilist command shows the Integration Servers in a running mode even if they haven't finished booting. ...
over 2 years ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Document Integration Server Environment Variables (like MQSI_TRACENODES_ROOT_DIRECTORY)

Please update the documentation to include a list of environment variables that the integration servers can use, and what those environment variables do. For example, MQSI_TRACENODES_ROOT_DIRECTORY will define the root directory for trace nodes th...
over 2 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Increasing Thoughtput Between MQ and Kafka via ACE

Use Case: Messages flow into MQ from external systems MQ then sends these onto IBM Eventstreams (Kafka) via ACE Message sequencing is maintained throughout the course of the flow Assured delivery for each message between ACE and MQ is required and...
about 5 years ago in App Connect 3 Future consideration