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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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Enhancement Request – Encrypt Password During Login Authentication to Prevent Unencrypted Sensitive Data Transmission in Developer Portal

During VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing), a security observation was identified in the application login portal authentication flow. Currently, while submitting credentials (username and password) through the login page, the ...
5 months ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Add native support for HTTP/REST ingestion (POST to Topic) directly within the EEM Gateway with built-in mTLS and Basic Authentication.

Why is it useful? Currently, EEM manages Kafka traffic natively but requires a separate, unmanaged "Kafka Bridge" deployment to handle HTTP producers. This creates two critical gaps for enterprise customers: The Encryption Gap: The Kafka Bridge do...
9 months ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 0 Future consideration

Prevent aborted DB2 threads on MQ Plan CSQ5R930

MQ submits SQL requests up to every 5 seconds. DB2 DBRMs CSQ5L221 and CSQ5S221 are referenced. There is no data for them to retrieve, resulting in the SQLCODE 100 being returned. Because it receives no data MQ issues a rollback resulting in thread...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Optimize troubleshooting of API calls - create a single view combining errors from the API event and Datapower log to correlate both log sources

Currently there is no good way of making logs available to Developers from an API Event and information of e.g. a failed call of the Datapower log. You always need both information. There is no self-service for operations or developers to retrieve...
over 1 year ago in API Connect 1 Not under consideration

Share File without Email and with one-time-link (MFT onPrem)

Hi, My customer is asking for extending the “Share File” feature in the webclient (MFT onPrem): He uses file share links only directly and never via mail. Therefore he asks for a way to disable "Send Email" per default or better to make this pos...
over 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 0 Future consideration

To have an automated solution of doing webMethods Certificate updates in IS and MWS.

This will be useful primarily in large areas of WebMethods because this activity will not require manual efforts and will save the support team time during certificate maintenance, avoiding exposure to human errors. Nowadays, certificate validity ...
over 1 year ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime 0 Submitted

RFC 5424 compliance for emitted syslog records

Datapower advertises the ability to generate syslog entries as one of its log target options. However, the contents of the data stream thus emitted is not RFC compliant, making the records difficult to interpret by other open-standards tools. It s...
9 months ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Under review

Add capability to delete policy through runmqsc

Add capability to delete policy through runmqsc For containers MQ Configuration is performed through runmqsc commands. If I need to remove (that is delete a policy) from a queue I can’t perform this from the runmqsc command with the remove option....
over 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Functionality already exists

Allow SSO users to deploy artifacts + Add another right level "deployer" between admin and user

Our line-of-business teams should be able to maintain their packages autonomously. In our company SSO is mandatory so we connected the 3 stages to our Entra Id. Only the production is directly linked, dev and test are using production to log in th...
about 1 year ago in webMethods Integration SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Deploy Rest Services using deployer (runtime/Patch)

We have lot of packages where we change/update Rest services, It is getting difficult to deploy Rest Services only that were updated.
5 months ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime 0 Submitted