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App Connect

Token based authentication for barauth Configuration for ACE on OpenShift

We are using Private git repository with self signed certificate. The bar files are stored in the Github. We are facing issues when we use token based authentication (for ex personal access) we see an exception as shown below. BIP2114E: IBM App Co...
over 4 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

Alternative user ID to run an execution group

System: IBM Intergration Bus on Unix and Linux In IBM Intergration Bus 8 and 9 on z/OS one can change the user ID under which an execution group runs. We need this functionality in IBM Integration Bus on UNIX (AIX) and Linux (Red Hat) either. By h...
over 12 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

Calling MS SQL database routine from mapping node

Like DB2 & Oracle, functionality to call Microsoft SQL database routine from Mapping node.
over 7 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

HTTPInput and HTTPRequest nodes should have the option to set the Message Parsing to use the HTTP Header ContentType

HTTPInput and HTTPRequest nodes should have the option to set Message Parsing to use the HTTP Header ContentType So if it gets Content-Type=application/xml it uses the XMLNSC parser and if it gets Content_Type=application/json it uses the JSON par...
about 3 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

Throw exception from CDOutput node upon Connect Direct transfer failure

Having issue with CDOuput node where a target system is down or even when a hostname is incorrect in the netmap we are not getting the failure in ACE. We can see from the Connect Direct logs that it failed but ACE processes as if it was successful.
over 1 year ago in App Connect Not under consideration

IIB on Linux to support Kerberos authentication while consuming a service

IIB natively does not provide support to consume/invoke an IWA-secured (NTLM, Kerberos, and SPNEGO) service on Linux platform using HTTP, SOAP, REST and Kafka nodes. This is a major limitation on IIB in Linux as end applications could be hosting s...
almost 8 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

ACE on CP4I must be able to use Proxy

We have been running ACE, MQ & API Connect on CP4I LTS release (and now on SC-2) on Openshift on Azure Cloud since 5 years now. We are testing a rollout of ACE on Single Node Openshift (SNO) on the autonomous factories. But the factories do no...
over 1 year ago in App Connect Not under consideration

Optimized database connection management

Currently WMB ODBC connections are limited in the sense that all database transactions by default are contained within the scope of the message flow transaction boundary. ESQL Compute nodes have a 'Transaction' property which can be set to Automat...
almost 13 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

IIB consumes all available Instances before recycling any previous ones

The thread despatch model used in Message Broker / IIB causes new processing threads / flow instances to be initialised ahead of current / previously processing threads being closed-down. This can cause a spin-up of active processing threads / flo...
over 11 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

Support for using fileshares in ACE deployed on IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

We require the message flows which uses file input nodes to support use of file share such as Samba, CIFS, etc on ACE installed from a CP4I (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 2019.x.x) environment - In order to have the ability to read from a file sha...
over 6 years ago in App Connect Future consideration