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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...
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...

DataPower Gateway

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Add missing GitOps functionality

The new GitOps feature that comes with firmware 10.6.0 is really nice but unfortunately it is missing some really important functionality that would make it useful in the real world. The GitOps templates do not support object name changes. The Git...
7 months ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Future consideration

Adding additional certificate information about serial number and thumbprint in Datapower/DPOD logs

Dear Team, I would like to address an important consideration regarding certificate validation in Datapower. Currently, our DPOD logs only the Subject field when a client attempts to pass validation credentials. However, this approach poses a chal...
about 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Data sources connection retry behavior

Hello Support Team, We would like to have a retry behavior for Data sources configured on datapower appliances. This will limit the number of retry attempts and allow us to fix the user id/password issues if there are any and will not flood our da...
over 3 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Datapower Integration Module support for PostgreSQL database connectivity

Datapower Integration Module does not support database connectivity for PostgreSQL. We need this support as an increasing number of customers (e.g. in Public sector in Poland) use PostgreSQL extensively as an alternative to Oracle.
about 3 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Expose the command show xml-names-status via REST API or SOMA interface

We have the need to monitor all of our devices in order to act before any unexpected restart. To be able to achieve this we would use our monitoring enterprise tools, which requires to execute web service calls(API/SOAP). Having this functionality...
over 3 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Functionality already exists

Improve DataPower JSV Compiler for Optimizing Schema Compilation

Description: I would like to request an enhancement for IBM DataPower's JSON Schema Validation (JSV) compiler to optimize the handling of large schemas with repetitive substructures. This request is based on performance challenges encountered duri...
11 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Allow user id with character such as '!' in it. Example p!john

I would like to create a user in DataPower which gets authenticated via LDAP. The user has '!' in it for example; p!asim DataPower doesn't allow this and throws this error, 'Name contains an invalid character (!).' Would you please be able to prov...
about 2 months ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Request for Adding Limited GitOps Functionality to default Domain

We have some use cases around form factor portability and cloud instance provisioning where it might be helpful to have an automated approach to loading common configurations to the default domain through GitOps. Some examples are the RBM and ODR ...
6 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

DataPower daily/weekly/monthly backups to NFS in GUI

Hello all as title suggests it is to have a feature to export backups to NFS storage: - page view:- name of backup - time that backup it is performed (select time, day/week/month)- (optional) where to offload backup eg. NFS (by default on local) I...
9 months ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Ability to kill a stale process without rebooting the gateway

There are situations where a gateway peering process is stuck and not able to restart. In order to solve it, a reboot is needed. Ability to kill such a process would be very valuable to avoid DataPower Gateway restart, that might host other, unrel...
11 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration