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App Connect

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 2 Not under 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 1 Future consideration

WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit and WebSphere Message Broker Explorer Mac OS X

Please add Mac OS X to the list of supported platforms for WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit and WebSphere Message Broker Explorer.
over 14 years ago in App Connect 6 Future 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 1 Future consideration

ACE Dynamic Credentials support

As Treven described in his article below, using an external vault solution such as HashiCorp or Azure Key Vault (AKV) to manage credentials for App Connect can be very beneficial. It would be helpful to implement his suggestion at the end of the a...
6 months ago in App Connect 0 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 1 Future consideration

Provide TLS support for the (different) App Connect DB2 Conectors

Currently the DB2 connectors within the App Connect Designer does not support any TLS / SSL. This should be changed - as there are many customers requiring this feature . (actually I have never met a customer who is not using TLS / SSL for databas...
10 months ago in App Connect 1 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 3 Future consideration

Allow emiting monitoring events from non connected node terminals

Currently in order to let a flow in ACE emit a business monitoring event through a node terminal, this terminal needs to be wired to a downstream node, otherwise it is ignored. The consequence is that terminals that you want to monitor, usually (b...
over 2 years ago in App Connect 1 Not under consideration

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 1 Future consideration