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App Connect

FileRead Node to List the number of files

Currently the only node that is capable of listing the files from a source FTP server is the 'File Exists' Node. However the node by itself is time driven and dynamically passing a policy + host file to list different host directories is not possi...
about 1 year ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Build a connector for IBM Planning Analytics which is now available as SaaS on AWS as an easy cross sell. we already have a premium connector for our largest competitor Anaplan

It is useful for 1000's of clients who want to integrate natively into Microsoft, SAP, Workday, S3, Oracle and will be a very attractve cross sell for our partners who are selling IBM Planning Analytics
over 3 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Provide a mechanism via api to refresh the tls certificates for REST Admin certificates and node-wide listener's truststore without a node restart

This request outlines a critical need for an enhancement to App Connect Enterprise(ACE) to mitigate the risk of data loss and patient safety when updating TLS/SSL certificates . The situation: The interval between TLS/SSL certificate refresh will ...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Connecting ACE Dashboards (AKS) to an IBM MQ queue manager(on premisses)

This feature only supported environment currently is Redhat Openshift, but we need it to work in AKS or any Kubernetes environment for the customers that can't use Openshift.
about 3 years ago in App Connect 3 Not under consideration

Enable Email Node to support refresh token in order to generate new access token

Without this, customer needs to run manual script to rotate the access token.Anyone using Email Node will benefit from it.Email Node should contain both refresh token and access token's TTL, so everytime access token is about to expired, it should...
7 months ago in App Connect 1 Under review

Add Otel support for technology nodes on App connect enterprise

As instana agent add support to track full interactions on ACE flows, they are deprecating the instana agent tracking support and they will only support Otel interaction, those interactions doesn't include at the moment nodes like cics request and...
2 months ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

First class support for loading bars from images

It would be great to be able to tell ACE to load a bar from a docker registry as part of the short-form in the configuration. Could be something like: spec : barURL : - https://jammy.id/strings.bar - docker://quay.io/jammy/strings-bar:latest Or sp...
2 months ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

Document the initial-config directory

We used to document it here: https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/ace-server#how-to-dynamically-configure-the-app-connect-enterprise-integration-server But its not documented at all in the current docs.
2 months ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow nested bars in /home/aceuser/initial-config/bars/

At the moment, the bars cannot be in sub folders. If a user mounts an image/configmap/other storage into that location, they can only mount one thing. If it supported nested bars, the user could compose the set of mounted sources at runtime. eg: /...
2 months ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

Increase the API rate limit in ACE dashboard

Client is attempting to use the ACE Dashboard API for managing their interfaces. / When they exceed 100 requests per minute they start seeing 429 errors ( Too ManyRequests ) . Can this limit be increased somewhere? Question : Is the ACE Dashboard ...
2 months ago in App Connect 1 Functionality already exists