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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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Avoid the need to restart the server for changing securityIdentity (dbparam / ACE valut) defined for connecting to DB.

We have a request to rotate db password every 30 days. All of our passwords are stored in beyondTrust and gets rotated after every 30 days. Currently we have to manually change the password on securityIdentities and restart servers. If restart is ...
over 1 year ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

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.
5 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...
5 months ago in API Connect 3 Future consideration

Role-based Authentication for all AWS connectors

All of the AWS service connectors in the IBM Automation Explorer do not support the ability to utilize role-based authentication and thus make them unusable for our entire organization. The connectors appear to support only user-level authenticati...
about 1 month ago in App Connect 2 Future consideration

Enhance the Connector Development Kit to support non-standard mechanisms of HTTP authentication

My team has been attempting to build connectors for reusable functions pertaining to the Veeva Vault suite of products. These APIs unfortunately do not adhere to strict HTTP authentication specs, like Basic Auth or OAuth, but their authentication ...
about 1 month ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

ability to call ICAP server

Datapower has feature to call the icap server using a filter action, we would like API connect to have policies or user-defined policies to call ICAP server. To achieve the Virus scan capability It'd be great to implement the functionality to pars...
3 months ago in API Connect 4 Future consideration

Correctly transforms XML into valid JSON arrays

Description of problem submitted to IBM: Configuration: We configured our integration servers to send logging data to ElasticSearch using Logstash. We used basic configuration based on following article: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/11....
11 months ago in App Connect 1 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...
11 months ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Ignore cert expiry at truststore level and API Gateway connection policy (decrepated User agent)

In APIC V10.5.0.3, there is option available to ignore the expiry date at certificate level. It will be great if it can be implemented at truststore level to ignore all expiry date at the Cloud or API manager and also with a description comment fo...
over 1 year ago in API Connect 1 Future consideration

Image repository for Container images

A public (with authentication) image repository for the IBM API connect container images would be helpfull. At the moment we need to download the images and then upload them to our private repository. Our repository can sychronise itself with exte...
about 2 years ago in API Connect 0 Future consideration