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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...
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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...
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    Enhancement to IBM MQ Connector to support fixed-length RecordBuilder

    Opening this Idea request for the IBM MQ Kafka Connector to support a new RecordBuilder capable of converting fixed-length MQ messages into Kafka Connect ConnectRecord objects. I believe this will a great enhancement to the product, particularly v...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Streams 0 Under review

    Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

    While IBM ACE delivers strong core integration and messaging capabilities, ISO 8583 TCP/IP transaction flows currently rely primarily on native logging and flow‑level diagnostics, which offer limited centralized observability and real‑time operati...
    6 months ago in App Connect 0 Under review

    Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

    The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
    about 1 year ago in App Connect 0 Under review

    Add option to suppress XML tag generation for null or empty string fields in pub.xml:documentToXMLString

    Hi Team, I'd like to submit a feature request regarding pub.xml:documentToXMLString in webMethods Integration Server. Currently, pub.xml:documentToXMLString generates empty XML tags (e.g., <MessageName/> or <MessageName></MessageNam...
    4 months ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime 0 Submitted

    Enable OpenTelemetry trace support for IBM App Connect Compute Nodes with configured data sources.

    Currently, IBM App Connect supports OpenTelemetry tracing only for transport nodes such as MQ, HTTP, SOAP, Kafka, and REST. However, many enterprise customers rely heavily on Compute Nodes with configured data sources to interact with databases an...
    11 months ago in App Connect 2 Submitted

    Circuit breaker option in Kafka Adapter listner

    TS022788467 for reference Recommended Design 1. Separate System Errors from Data Errors Retryable Errors (Target System Down) Endpoint unavailable Network timeout HTTP 5xx errors Connection failures Behaviour Trigger a circuit breaker....
    about 1 month ago in webMethods Hybrid Integration 0 Submitted

    Using IntegrationServer as a service in Windows server

    Business Need Independent Integration Servers (IIS) are the strategic runtime model in IBM App Connect Enterprise 13. However, unlike Integration Nodes, IIS instances cannot be installed, managed, and monitored as native Windows Services using fun...
    22 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

    Consistent technique for mirroring images for an air-gapped cluster - OpenShift and CPs

    Currently Redhat recommends oc -mirror for replicating images for gapped install. CP4I recommends a different tool and as a result customers have to install/support two different toolset to mirror images for air-gapped install. Would like a consis...
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 7 Future consideration

    Publish a single matrix showing ILMT support lifecycle dates for all supported operating systems, including server support, endpoint support, and subcapacity eligibility.

    Today, information about operating system support lifecycle in IBM License Metric Tool is spread across SPCR reports, support announcements and subcapacity eligibility documentation. It would be very useful to provide a consolidated matrix showing...
    about 1 month ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

    Enhance the dead-letter queue handler utility (CSQUDLQH) on z/OS to display the specific rules that were used from the rules table.

    It will help to quickly identify the root causes of why messages ended up on the DLQ when CSQUDLQH executes. Besides, the total number of actions taken, display all the rules that were applied when DLQ messages were read by CSQUDLQH. Include the t...
    4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

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