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App Connect

Admin REST API for app connect dashboard

We have a requirement to call ACE Admin REST APIs from our support monitoring tool, which is located outside the OCP cluster, to monitor the message flows and application status. As we are using the dashboard on OCP, instead of targeting individua...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Functionality already exists

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...
about 8 years ago in App Connect 2 Future 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 3 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 3 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...
over 3 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

IIB Continues Processing HTTP Requests After A Timeout Occurs

When a HTTP / SOAP-over-HTTP Request is received by an IIB Message Flow (via a HTTP Input or SOAP Input node), if a timeout occurs for that request, IIB returns the client a timeout response (error response) - this is good... the product fulfills ...
over 11 years ago in App Connect 3 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 1 Future consideration

rpm packages for IIB9.x for deployment in RedHat based systems

With the adoption of puppet and chef in enterprises, having rpm packages for IIB9 installation/uninstallation will be great help. It will enable installation/uninstallation/upgrade managed by a package manager like yum inside puppet module/chef re...
over 11 years ago in App Connect 4 Not under consideration

Allow Exclusions from Build Paths for IIB Application BAR files

Allow users to configure standard exclusion paths when compiling IIB Applications into BAR files. IIB Applications result in the entire contents of an Application project being sucked-up / compiled into the BAR file... literally any files that are...
over 11 years ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration

Message Model Wizard, XSD hierarchy issue

"New Message Model" wizard... Two XML Options are provided: Option 1 "SOAP XML" i.e. use a WSDL, Option 2 "Other XML" e.g. use an XSD. When importing from a pre-existing WSDL (Option 1) - you can successfully refer to the WSDL file and all depende...
over 11 years ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration