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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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Ability to delete files after they have been zipped in a folder

Yes I know I can add another step, but should be an option when zipping files
about 2 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 1 Submitted

Required files for event

If there is a transfers that requires 4 files to be sent it would be helpful to have that in a single step\action. Yes I can create multiple Find actions to find each file, but managing an event that sends 34 files is not fun. We can get around it...
about 2 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 0 Submitted

Scheduled windows for events

Files tend to not get created on time, due to various reasons. Would like to be able to have an event run within a window of time, say between 07:00 and 11:00. If a file is not found within that window then the event fails and sends the failure no...
about 2 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 0 Submitted

Schedules that run biweekly, or similar cadences

We can set this currently with an Interval, but the schedule drifts. Time changes (daylight savings time), and leap years also breaks the schedules.
about 2 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 0 Submitted

Add apiKey auth type on Rest API Descriptor

The OpenApi spec (both v2 and v3) allow to define a security definition for an apiKey (see https://swagger.io/docs/specification/v3_0/authentication/api-keys/) Unfortunately webMethods Designer and Integration server does only support Basic HTTP a...
4 months ago in webMethods Designer 0 Submitted

webMethods SuccessFactors Connector oAuth2 Authentication

SuccessFactors APIs are protected by oAuth2 authentication. The current webMethods Connector that is available does have oAuth2 setup option. However, we would need to manually generate SAML Assertion which isn't ideal, tedious and a tad insecure....
9 months ago in webMethods Connectors and Adapters 0 Future consideration

Certify ACE for the use of jemalloc

To address memory issues in some of our ACE integration servers, we have been evaluating the use of an alternate memory allocator (jemalloc, from the Red Hat EPEL8 packages) instead of relying on the default one coming with our Red Hat Enterprise ...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add missing "Resources for the endpoint URI not found" to server log with call details for REST transformed SOAP API

When a user calls a non-existent method of a REST API, there will be a related log in the server.log at info level that allows administrator to track down the source of the request: For example:2024-11-05 15:10:27 HKT [YAI.0101.0018I] (tid=798263)...
11 months ago in webMethods API Gateway 0 Planned for future release

Better documentation for CLI, REST API and more

API Connect has a lot of hidden good features not comprehensively documented. This can leads to wrong usage, more time for troubleshooting and support, which could be actually be saved for more productive feature development work. For example, the...
over 5 years ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration

Security response headers for API calls

Security response headers, currently configurable and applicable for IS admin console, should also be applicable for API calls. APIs calls are no different than admin console and should be secured by use of security response headers. These headers...
about 2 months ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime 0 Submitted