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API Connect

Allow mapping of client-side disconnects during response streaming to 4xx status codes (instead of 500)

Problem description: Currently, in IBM API Connect, if a client application disconnects or times out while the API Gateway is actively streaming a successful backend response (e.g., a 200 OK), the gateway attempts to write to the closed client soc...
3 months ago in API Connect 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...
almost 2 years ago in API Connect Future consideration

Enable AI- Gateway for Watson.x on premise Implementations

As of today API Connect AI- Gateway only works with Cloud Implementations of Watson.x . Customers with extended data privacy requirements (e.g. Federal) have implemented on Premise Watson.x and API Connect and now want to use AI-Gateway.
8 months ago in API Connect Planned for future release

Restrict Space Administrator/Developer role or Custom role Access to Resources Within Their Assigned Space

We have a requirement for enhanced access control in API Connect, specifically for the role Space Administrators/Developers, to restrict access to resources within their assigned space(s). The key aspects of the enhancement should include: Space-S...
9 months ago in API Connect Planned for future release

Feature Request: Automatic Expiry of Unapproved API/Product Subscriptions

As a system administrator for IBM API Connect, we frequently encounter unapproved API or Product subscriptions that accumulate over time. These subscriptions may arise from unintentional consumer actions or subscriptions to incorrect versions. Whi...
about 1 year ago in API Connect Planned for future release

Please publish critical iFix to the product image registry (ICR) ,just as with APIC product images.

For CVE-2025-13915, an iFix has been provided. However,in case of OCP / CP4I Installations, the patching steps require preparing an additional image registry, which is not required for the standard product installation or upgrades.When APIC is use...
6 months ago in API Connect Not under consideration

Separate installation of EDB-Operator in Openshift

Currently, the edb-operator required to install postgres on management-subsystem is controlled and managed by common-service-operator. Therefore, common-service-operator needs extensive cluster admin rights in order to install other operators. Thi...
5 months ago in API Connect Needs more information

Inadequate API param Validation

Currently we have quite a few apis where input data is read in the form of api path parameters and query string parameters. In the API design tab the only option we see when creating parameters is to select the data type (string, integer) and noth...
over 1 year ago in API Connect Under review

Feature Request: Support for Local Timezone Configuration in Daily Rate Limit Reset

Currently, when configuring daily rate limits in IBM API Connect, the reset time is fixed to midnight UTC. We would like to request the ability to configure the reset time based on the local timezone or specify a custom timezone. The current behav...
about 1 year ago in API Connect Planned for future release

JSON Schema validation add more verbose error messages

When a schema validation error occurred, it would be good for API Connect to output either the field name or the line in the request that it failed on. This will assist the client greatly at finding out which field actually failed the schema valid...
over 2 years ago in API Connect Future consideration