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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...
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...

DataPower Gateway

Expose the command show xml-names-status via REST API or SOMA interface

We have the need to monitor all of our devices in order to act before any unexpected restart. To be able to achieve this we would use our monitoring enterprise tools, which requires to execute web service calls(API/SOAP). Having this functionality...
over 4 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Functionality already exists

Crypto Binary Action needs an option to add cmsAlgorithmProtect signed attribute for PKCS7 / CMS digital signature

We plan to implement PKCS7 / CMS digital signature and verification, using Crpyto Binary Action in Datapower. 4 signed attributes need to be included in the PKCS7 / CMS signedData type, according to the specification we need to implement. There is...
almost 8 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Not under consideration

Implement functionality to be able to connect to an MQ uniform cluster using CCDT files

Customers are moving their MQ installations over to a Uniform cluster model. Current Datapower functionality cannot take full advantage of the uniform cluster model, since it does not support CCDT's. This means features such as loadbalancing are n...
almost 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Planned for future release

Backport gRPC client configuration (dp:url-open gRPC support) from 10.6.6 CD to the 10.6.0.x LTS stream

The gRPC configuration object, which defines the connection to a remote gRPC server for use in a stylesheet with the dp:url-open extension element, is currently only available in the DataPower Gateway 10.6.6 Continuous Delivery (CD) release (see I...
2 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Runtime Access to Backend TLS Certificate/Public Key and Support for Standalone Public Keys in IBM DataPower

Currently, IBM DataPower validates the backend server certificate during the TLS handshake using a TLS Client Profile and Validation Credentials. However, there is no supported way to access the backend TLS certificate or its public key from Gatew...
2 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Support Connection Pooling to Backend Application Servers in MultiProtocolGateway, WSProxy Services, XMLFirewall Services, etc.

I know connection pooling exists for ldap, but it would be nice for us to be able to configure connection pooling for other backends tied to WSProxy and MPG services. Allowing us to configure connection pooling at the DataPower layer will help us ...
3 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Add visibility metrics to the Cavium co-processor and HSM

In order to understand failure cases, when one or more machines is out of service for planned or unplanned events, the remaining machines see a spike in TLS handshake activity. In order to properly design HA solutions this workload needs to be und...
10 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

DataPower Log Target Enhancements for better off appliance logging

We are looking for enhancements to DataPower Log Targets that send Log Events off the appliance to a central logging facility. To ensure all Log Messages generated by the appliance can be sent, we need Log Target capability that allows it to be on...
about 6 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Support custom/ldap authorisation for OIDC RBM

RBM with ODIC only supports AZ with a AAA Mapping file. Having to manage a file on the device containing username to role mappings is cumbersome and not feasible for clients with large server fleets. Ideally, we should be able to run a custom auth...
3 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

ecdsa-sha256 signature ASN.1 syntax

Please consider to make DataPower's cypto module "sign" API respect RFC5753 (Use of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Algorithms in Cryptographic Message Syntax), which states that signature must contain the DER encoding. crypto module is currentl...
over 6 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration