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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...

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Restrict both incoming and outgoing to only accept allowed protocols

Objective: Disable restricted protocols for incoming and outgoing calls to IIB Problem: We need to disable TLSv1.0 (or for future cases, adminstratively disable lower/restricted protocols) for both incoming and outgoing IIB traffic. We changed jav...
almost 9 years ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Publish the MQ Statistics and MQ Accounting SMF data in addition to creating the SMF Records

IBM MQ on distributed publishes the statistics and accounting data, allowing multiple consumers of the data. We would like that same capability for z/OS, providing the capability for more immediate consumption and multiple consumers. As an alterna...
over 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Aspera Connect Multi-Session For High File Count Up/Downloads using a single cue to multiple sessions versus breaking up the files into sessions.

When a user is uploading 90000 files of a frame sequence (say 100MB/frame), they see a slowdown in the multi-session uploading drifting down to 200Mbps from 1.2-2.0Gbps. I'm told this is due to how Connect queues its transfers once the transfer st...
4 months ago in Aspera Ideas 0 Under review

Visual indication for mandatory fields in "Send files" screen

In the "Send files" screen, there is no clear visual indicator for the mandatory fields. If a user enters just the To box, add a file and missed entering or clicking into the title text box, and scroll down to the buttons, the "Send" button is dis...
4 months ago in Aspera Ideas 1 Under review

Declarative EEM API - i.e CRs to create published topics etc

EEM has a REST based API today, which can be used to create, update, publish and unpublish Kafka topics. A logical extension to this (and a better fit for CI/CD/GitOps style adoption) would be to offer a declarative approach (using k8s custom reso...
4 months ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 0 Future consideration

Support implicit FTP over TLS (FTPS)

It took me a long time to found out why I could not connect to a particular FTP server using my File Output Node. Only after using other tools I found out that this server requires implicit FTP over TLS. I was really surprised to find this remark ...
9 months ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

IBM Java Interlanguage Batch for z/OS V2.4 and V2.5 provides the opportunity to implement Batch Jobs with Interlanguage Calls between COBOL and Java, which use the same thread from COBOL and Java to Db2 and act as one UOW. This support should be expanded expanded to MQSeries.

IBM Java Interlanguage Batch for z/OS V2.4 and V2.5 allows us to implement jobs with Interlanguage Calls (ILC) between COBOL and Java and access to Db2 as one thread. Pre-Requisite for this new feature is the APAR PH45216 in LE and PH48861 in Db2 ...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Rotate sslkeyfile.log

As per today's meeting with IBM rep, when enabling packet capture in continuous mode with ssl key session, datapower rotates the capture.pcap file but not the sslkeyfile.log file causing the temporary: filesystem to fill up and device shutting dow...
almost 3 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Planned for future release

Option to handle dignostic BIP messages

We propose to include in the product an option to handle diagnotic BIP messages which are written to OS´s syslog, for example to merge messages generated in several lines for a concrete error or even hide some of the messages which are not relevant.
about 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Enabling email as username enforcement

It would be beneficial to include in API Connect v10 Developer Portal functionality which was present in v5: enforcing username to be email address. It was a useful feature in v5 and the lack of it in v10 makes it more difficult to keep consistenc...
almost 2 years ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration