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PINNED It should be possible to step-in while debugging Flow Services
As of webMethods.io Integration 11.0.7, a Flow Service can be debugged step by step in the Flow Service editor, but for an INVOKE step, the debugger can only step over the INVOKE step. It would be very helpful if the debugger would also allow to s...
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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Enable OpenTelemetry trace support for IBM App Connect Compute Nodes with configured data sources.

Currently, IBM App Connect supports OpenTelemetry tracing only for transport nodes such as MQ, HTTP, SOAP, Kafka, and REST. However, many enterprise customers rely heavily on Compute Nodes with configured data sources to interact with databases an...
4 days ago in App Connect 2 Submitted

On-Demand Activity Logging Toggle for APIs

Summary: Currently, API activity logging in IBM API Connect can only be enabled or disabled during the API publication process. This requires republishing the API every time a change to the activity-logging configuration is needed, which introduce...
5 days ago in API Connect 0 Submitted

Enable IBM DataPower and IBM API Gateway to export logs via OpenTelemetry (OTLP), alongside existing tracing, so customers can stream gateway logs natively to any OTel-compatible backend

Why this matters: Enterprises are standardizing on OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral observability. DataPower already supports OpenTelemetry traces; not supporting logs forces customers to maintain parallel pipelines (syslog/NFS/File/SOAP) and cust...
4 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Enhancement to IBM MQ Connector JSON record builder to include schema

Opening this idea for IBM MQ Connector to include record key/value schema for JSON payloads. This can either be created under new Record builder or maybe an enhancement to the existing JSON record builder. This will allow for the following: Allow ...
about 4 hours ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Streams 0 Submitted

Request to built-in feature in Asper Share application which can calculate the total size, number of files/folders of all contents within a folder (including subfolders) directly in the UI like “Properties” feature available in Windows systems

Request to built-in feature in Asper Share application which can calculate the total size, number of files/folders of all contents within a folder (including subfolders) directly in the UI like “Properties” feature available in Windows systems. IB...
about 8 hours ago in Aspera Ideas 0 Submitted

Enable Context Variables for parse Policy

Currently it is not possible to use Context Variables as described in Variable references in API Connect - IBM Documentation. This behavioral limits the usage of the parse policy in user-defined policies because we must always use max values. This...
about 17 hours ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Enabling NO_PROXY/no_proxy system variable support for HTTP Nodes

This idea uses the same context of an existing ACE APAR https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT47069. Once the HTTPS_PROXY/HTTP_PROXY environment variables are set with with proxy details for the entire environment, all HTTP Node connections wil...
4 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

App Connect Designer: Option to configure Kafka topic for deployments

Currently it is not possible to 'overwrite' the Kafka topic for Designer flows.However this is typically required as there are different topics - depending on the stage (e.g. dev, test, prod). At the moment the customer needs to actually 'copy' an...
7 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

Add the OTEL Traces while calling the External OAuth Service within the Api

it will give better insights to the customer and corelate the trace from end-end systems
4 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Split the EventStreams headless service for the Kafka broker and controller into 2 separate services to avoid "duplicate timestamp" issue in OCP kube-state-metrics

After upgrade to Event Streams operator 12 (exact operator version 12.0.2) we have observed that the Endpoint resource event-brk-<env>-kafka-brokers contains duplicate entries for kafka broker and kafka controller, causing PrometheusDuplicat...
7 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Streams 0 Submitted