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App Connect

Support for SFTP Node for on-prem AppConnect

There is no support in AppConnect on-prem (running in an OpenShift container) for the SFTP node that is found in Cloud version of AppConnect. This node is necessary when the customer requires SFTP to transfer flat files.
over 4 years ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Adding Windows "Group Managed Service Accounts" support to App Connect Enterprise

We have dedicated service accounts un which we run ACE. We are required under corporate security policy to periodically change the passwords for these accounts. It is a desired objective of corporate security that the password should not be known ...
almost 3 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Support for Automatic Continuous Integration / Deployment processes on Standard Kubernetes Containers - e.g. via API

Currently it is only possible to manual import / export flows from a standard App Connect Designer container instance.This is quite cumbersome and time consuming during development, test and staging. Good would be to have an API that can be used t...
almost 3 years ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to support docker volumes for data persistence

Native support for common external storage protocols (e.g., NFS, CIFS) for docker volumes. Enhanced volume plugins with improved performance and failover capabilities Support for attaching external storage directly to containers with minimal confi...
almost 3 years ago in App Connect 2 Functionality already exists

IMS Input node

Please provide an IMS Input node similar to the existing WESB IMS export binding
almost 12 years ago in App Connect 3 Not under consideration

Add drop down when selecting BAR files when adding them to Integration Runtimes

User Experience: Add drop down for selecting BAR files when adding a new BAR file to Integration Server runtime. In CP4I 16.1.0 and ACE 12 a client wants to add an existing BAR file to an Integration runtime, they have to go back to the BAR file l...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

SOCKS protocol support for File Nodes

File nodes in broker does not support socks protocol. It would be a nice addition to the File Nodes. Typically external sftp server connections are allowed through socks proxy server in the organizations.
over 13 years ago in App Connect 5 Future consideration

New partnering

I have new innovation product idea which non of the company doesn't have this work like a partner base where people can use for all need
over 1 year ago in App Connect 0 Not under consideration

ACE REST API - only one administration request (POST/PATCH/PUT/DELETE) can get processed by a single IntegrationServer and its not possible to execute them parallelly We want to have this behavior modified to be able to process multiple request in parallel.

ACE REST API - only one administration request (POST/PATCH/PUT/DELETE) can get processed by a single IntegrationServer and its not possible to execute them in parallel ( IBM response to a PMR ). We want to have this behavior modified to be able to...
almost 3 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

App Connect - zCX - ability to copy in file when starting container

This link in App Connect V12 Knowledge Center describes how to use supplied JCL to create and run ACE Docker images in zCX on zOS: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/12.0?topic=software-app-connect-enterprise-zos-container-extensions-zcx Our ...
over 4 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration