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App Connect

Increased visibility to check flow/connector health

While the UI and logs provide some visibility into flow health, there have been occurrences where an Event flow flow will appear to be running but the connector (e.g. Salesforce) is not longer picking up events. It would be beneficial to have the ...
over 4 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Current documentation of internal services in ACE container architecture

Containerized ACE installations are, of course, composed of microservices. The dependencies between these microservices are not obvious to the customer's eye. This results in confusion about the impact of changes. IBM makes efforts to have all the...
over 4 years ago in App Connect 2 Not under consideration

Need PL/I to DFDL generator

1. Generate DFDL from PL/I 1a. Support Complex Refer2. Parse and Serialize PL/I byte arrays in both directions (from byte arrays to PL/I and vice-versa) 2a. XML --> PL/I [ ] byte array 2b. PL/I [ ] byte array --> XML 2c. Support Complex Refer
almost 14 years ago in App Connect 3 Not under consideration

JSON Parser should serialize repeating objects to arrays

JSON Parser should serialize repeating objects to arrays While the working of the JSON parser is documented to NOT DO this serialization, it is definitely the way it SHOULD work. The currently constructed JSON is unconsumable/unusable by receivers...
over 4 years ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Get HTTP response error codes for SOAPRequest node in structured message tree elements

At SOAPRequest node, services responses are propagated to "out", "fault" or "failure" terminals due to http response. HTTP/1.1 200 to "out" terminal HTTP/1.1 500 to "fault" terminal as SOAP response and populated X-Original-HTTP-Status-Code header...
over 9 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Publish Node extensions

To publis a message using the current 'Publication' node the developer needs to construct a special RFH2 header.This should be eleminated by providing node properties for at least:- topic- publication typeThis could be accompanied with local envir...
about 14 years ago in App Connect 3 Future consideration

Add SQL.HostName as a new Broker Property

Currently, one has to use a JCN or various schemes to get the hostName available in a message flow. Making it a standard Broker property would make a developer's life simpler.
about 14 years ago in App Connect 4 Future consideration

Change Load balanced SAP Connection mechanism to utilise different Function Modules from the RFC_READ_TABLES

Recent SAP Support Pack update (NW750 SP22 applied Q4 2021) exposed an issue with mechanism used by IIB to establish load balanced connectivity, through Logon Groups, relying on the RFC_READ_TABLES, (which has proven reliable, to this point). SAP ...
over 4 years ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Support access to Hardware Support Modules within WebSphere Message Broker

Provide a feature within WMB so that when it needs to access certificates it can access them held on a Hardware Security Module (HSM).
about 14 years ago in App Connect 3 Not under consideration

JPMC Request for Consumable Maintenance File

JPMC is requesting a 'consumable data file' that they can incorporate in their weekly maintenance review to be aware of any known exposures at their current install and maintenance level, which includes those APARs where a fix is available, and al...
over 9 years ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration