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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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Content-length header is omitted in IBM APIC if the response body is empty

When the response from backend is empty, we are getting content-length=0 from backend system, However that header is been omitted by IBM APIC and in the final APIC response headers that header is missing completely.
over 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Support OpenTelemetry trace on Kafka nodes

Trace capabilities are becoming a standard for monitoring and analyze transactions in end-to-end integration scenarios. OpenTelemetry is currently supported on some ACE nodes, but Kafka nodes (KafkaProducer, KafkaConsumer and KafkaRead) are not ye...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow syslog messages to use Format=text instead of JSON

One of the V9.0.x CD releases add the ability to send error messages to syslog on Unix. However, these messages are written in JSON format and it is not possible to instead choose Format=text like you can with other targets for error messages. The...
almost 7 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Future consideration

Update Datapower Web GUI to remove the dependency on insecure settings in Content security policy

As part of the application security and penetration testing scans, it was identified that Datapower Web GUI is having insecure settings in Content security policy. Please refer to TS016213444 for details. Even though it was clarified in the case t...
12 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

Create the underlying DataPower Gateway with the same license.use like the owning API Connect instance

An API Connect (APIC) instance that is run within Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) will always create the underlying DataPower Gateway (IDG) with an image which based on the datapower-prod (Production) edition image. That causes the license report...
over 1 year ago in API Connect 3 Future consideration

Tooling to view API Probes

API Connect & DataPower are capable ob capturing API Probes. Unfortunately the process of analysing those API Probes ist quite commplicated and the API Probe data structure is not documented. As a customer we would like to analyse API Probe da...
over 2 years ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration

Distinguish error types from Invoke Policy

Hello team, we currently as a financial organization need to custom error mesagges responses from our APIs. We use Invoke Policy to call another backend, but when an error like: - Unknown Host - Timeout Connection - SSL/TLS Error Always is thrown ...
4 months ago in API Connect 3 Needs more information

Designer Authoring: Let me import REST / OpenAPI specs

In contrast to a Designer instance running on Kubernetes, I cannot import OpenAPI specification files into my local Designer Authoring. This limits the usage quite a bit, as we use more REST connections than SaaS product connectors / discovery con...
4 months ago in App Connect 0 Future consideration

Designer: Let me (re)name flow steps

As soon as you have more than one step of a type, it is hard to distinguish them when using the expression editor. Also, naming flow steps lets me model the flow closer to the actual business case it represents. It makes it easier to be read and u...
4 months ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

Designer: More efficient use of screen space, especially when editing expressions

The Designer UI is quite good in terms of simplicity and ease of use. Yet when working on flows wich are a little more complex, a developer wishes to have a little more efficient UI. The expression field is always one line in a fixed width. When w...
4 months ago in App Connect 0 Submitted