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App Connect

Request for Message Flow Node Details to be included with OTEL data

Additional OTEL data details at the message flow node level would help us understand where processing time is spent inside the message flow. This would help us understand poor performing nodes, optimize our message flows, and manage our resources ...
over 1 year ago in App Connect Future consideration

IBM App Connect for Healthcare v6.0 Support for HL7 v2.3

Epic Systems Corporation, or Epic, develops and EMR product, known in whole as 'Epic' or an Epic EMR. This is used by most of healthcare customers including MSK. This EMR supports HL7 2.3. MSK has deployed ACE 12 but it only supports HL7 2.7 or HL...
almost 3 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

Certify ACE for the use of jemalloc

To address memory issues in some of our ACE integration servers, we have been evaluating the use of an alternate memory allocator (jemalloc, from the Red Hat EPEL8 packages) instead of relying on the default one coming with our Red Hat Enterprise ...
over 2 years ago in App Connect Not under consideration

HTTPAsyncRequest node add per request timeout option - like RestAsync node

In the case of RestAsync node, it is possible to change the timeout value per message: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/12.0?topic=apis-using-local-environment-variables-rest-nodes SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.REST.Request.Timeout...
almost 2 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

MFA Implementation for App Connect Enterprise Web Management Console

There is no current way to implement MFA access to the Web Management Console (we rely on username/password combinations). We are undergoing a security assessment and per IA-2(1) for privileged access and IA-2(2) for non-privileged users (see belo...
over 2 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

Enhanced DFDL Wizard with Excel (XLSX) Parsing Support

Many departments within our organization rely on Excel spreadsheets as a primary means of structuring and exchanging data. Currently, to read and parse Excel files in IBM App Connect Enterprise, teams must write boilerplate code or purchase additi...
10 months ago in App Connect Future consideration

Enable tracing nodes per flow, not per integration server

In ACE v11, you can only enable trace nodes for an entire integration server, not just at a flow or application level (as you could in iib v10). As not all customers that migrate to v11 will choose to adopt the small container approach, enabling t...
over 5 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

A small editor for MCP tool descriptions in the Web UI, readable by both the agent and a human

When you expose a REST API as an MCP tool, you set a description per tool. It gets pre-filled from the OpenAPI spec, and you can edit it, but the editing experience is bare. [one line on the current field limitation, e.g. single cramped input, no ...
3 months ago in App Connect Planned for future release

Support OAuth for SOAP and REST nodes

I am attempting to integrate with an external vendor who only supports OAuth for authentication. Unfortunately I'm unable to submit messages to their system because it turns out IBM doesn't support OAuth.
almost 9 years ago in App Connect Future consideration

Allow Start/Stop/Teardown Operations for App Connect Dashboard API

We are requesting the ability to enable start/stop/teardown operations at all resource levels using the App Connection Dashboard API (Integration Runtime Admin API) Example Operation (Start/Stop/Teardown) for Integration Runtimes (Servers) POST /a...
7 months ago in App Connect Under review