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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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Ability to place the system under read-only (or maintenance) mode during upgrades

Prior to API Connect product upgrades, we require the ability to automatically place the system under a temporary read-only or maintenance mode via an elevated role within the CMC. This will prevent any changes being made to users, roles, permissi...
over 5 years ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration

Support persistence connection with proxy policy

We found out that Datapower does not support Persistent connection with proxy policy setting. The DP original architects decided when tunneling requests through a proxy it was better to create a new connection for each request. This design cause m...
almost 5 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Remove RunTime Dependency (For Each Request) on Primary Gateway by OAuth Secured APIs

Customer is having one of the larger DP Gateway clusters deployed to implement their Enterprise API layer.They’re having single active-active DP GW cluster set up across two sites – each site having 6 GW instances - even distribution such that sit...
over 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Add subject validation option to Crypto Validation Credentials

When setting up communication over insecure channels (i.e. over Internet) it is required to narrow down list of clients that might connect to DataPower. This selection should be based on what is contained within Subject of client's certificate. Sp...
about 3 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to runmqsc -n

Runmqsc -n could use with a little improvement: It would certainly be beneficial to be able to at a minimum view, and if possible edit the JSON CCDTURL with specific filters, For instance it is not currently possible to use dis chl(*) type(clntcon...
about 3 years ago in MQ on IBM Cloud (SaaS) 2 Future consideration

GSSAPI/Kerberos authentication support in IDG 10.0.1

Customer is looking at integrating IDG 10.0.1 with a kafka cluster as part of an inter agency initiative however the required GSSAPI/Kerberos authentication method isn't supported in IDG 10.0.1.
about 4 years ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Add Get All feature to Embedded Global Cache

We currently use the full WebSphere Extreme Scale extensions on some of our integration nodes and are exploring if we can use the Embedded Global Cache for support of some other less complicated grids on some of our other nodes and are running int...
over 5 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Official support for ILMT disconnected scanner mode on API Connect

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/10.0.x?topic=vmware-installing-license-metric-tool documents how to install and setup BigFix agent for automated license reporting. However, we do not have a BigFix installation and would rather avoid having...
over 1 year ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration

Add support for honoring flow-asserted “chunked” transport encoding within HTTPReply nodes

Currently, the HTTPReply node always closes the socket when done processing the data from the input node that activated it. We would like to see an option added whereby the flow passing data to the HTTPReply node can specify transport-encoding=chu...
about 8 years ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Bare-Metal Openshift Redbook, followed with CP4* installation chapters

Many of my financial customers are not going to put their data out in AWS/Azure/Google/Off Prem cloud, however they do want the advantages of cloud on-prem and specifically with the license changes of monolithic to cloud pack within IBM, the flexi...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 3 Future consideration