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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 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 ...

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Support dynamic variable substitution in Virtual Folder local file path (Local filesystem)

Currently in webMethods ActiveTransfer (tested on version 10.15), when configuring a Virtual Folder with a physical location mapped to the local file system, the "Local file path" field only accepts a static, hard-coded path (e.g., FILE://C:/Trans...
5 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer / On-Prem 0 Submitted

Enable Device level Metrics (Object status, CPU, Memory etc) using Open telemetry exporter in Datapower gateway along with traces

I am looking for a way to monitor DataPower metrics in Grafana using the OpenTelemetry (OTEL) configuration. Unfortunately, the current OTEL implementation in DataPower only supports exporting traces for MPGW, WSP, and API Gateway (APIGW) objects....
5 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

gRPC support for APIC

gRPC is gaining a lot of popularity, more and more customers are asking for gRPC support
over 6 years ago in API Connect 2 Future consideration

Provide a mechanism via api to refresh the tls certificates for REST Admin certificates and node-wide listener's truststore without a node restart

This request outlines a critical need for an enhancement to App Connect Enterprise(ACE) to mitigate the risk of data loss and patient safety when updating TLS/SSL certificates . The situation: The interval between TLS/SSL certificate refresh will ...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Enable SSL support between LMT and BigFix on DB2

Currently, if you're using BigFix with LMT, on DB2, the only option is to use a non-SSL enabled port for communication. Having any DB2 ports open without SSL is a security issue. While I have seen documentation for how to allow LMT to use SSL, but...
2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Support Multiple Server Hostnames For Swagger v2 APIs

Provide a supported API Connect mechanism for associating multiple environment-specific endpoints with an OpenAPI 2 API, even though the OpenAPI 2 specification provides only a single host field. Our organization works a lot with Swagger v2 and Op...
2 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

OpenAPI 3 multiple-server gateway and vanity endpoint support

Allow multiple entries in the OpenAPI 3 servers array to produce distinct, invokable vanity endpoints instead of using only the first entry to determine the gateway route. Background: We have ~50 internal environments. Different teams use differen...
2 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Support ibmmq python module on Z

Opening this idea request for IBM to add support for ibmmq python module on Z and provide case support for production operations. As Python on z/OS has become an valuable tool for development and administrators on z/OS. Having ibmmq python module ...
9 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

API Gateway of API Connect should support flow control for large Payloads (request/response)

The API Gateway of API Connect should support flow control for large Payloads in API Requests and API Responses. API Gateway should manage the transmission rates when the server or client cannot receive requests fast enough. In this cases API Gate...
almost 2 years ago in API Connect 0 Planned for future release

Force external users who registered through Developer Portal not to use their last 3 passwords

What we would like to do is to force external users who registered through IBM APIC Developer Portal not to use their last 3 passwords. People who registered through Developer Portal(external users) don't use LDAP, they choose their passwords on t...
almost 2 years ago in API Connect 2 Not under consideration