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App Connect

Provide a mechanism to produce a slimmed‑down ACE image/installation to reduce exposure

Although the ACE Certified Container disables unused components at startup, those components still remain present in the image and therefore remain theoretically vulnerable. We are requesting a mechanism to generate a slimmed‑down ACE image or ins...
22 minutes ago in App Connect Submitted

Enable Email Node to support refresh token in order to generate new access token

Without this, customer needs to run manual script to rotate the access token.Anyone using Email Node will benefit from it.Email Node should contain both refresh token and access token's TTL, so everytime access token is about to expired, it should...
5 days ago in App Connect Submitted

Provide an Additional Previous‑Quarter Security‑Only Release Alongside Each New Mod Pack

Our customers are required to perform regular software vulnerability scans and must remediate identified CVEs within a 60–90 day window. Their internal process aligns well with IBM’s monthly security fix pack releases. However, IBM’s quarterly Mod...
3 days ago in App Connect Submitted

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...
5 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Multiple vault archive zip files support and Avoid Integration Server restarts for credential updates on ACE v13

1. How the IBM‑designed process works today As confirmed through IBM documentation and previous IBM Support interactions: Credentials must be generated externally, outside the Integration Server, in a separate container. Each Integration Serve...
about 2 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
8 months ago in App Connect Under review

Add a feature to integrate with a password fault (like CyberArk) to pull the credentials for ODBC/JDBC authentication

We have worked with IBM to create a feature in WebSphere Application Server that uses the CyberArk agent to retrieve credentials from CyberArk for JDBC authentication, rather than pointing to encoded passwords stored in the local file system that ...
2 months ago in App Connect Submitted

Provide working IntegrationAPI.jar with ACE releases for WS-Security users

Currently a customer using WS-Security must manually include wssecpolicy.xml and wssecbindings.xml in their policy project, but even that is not enough as the IntegrationAPI.jar only works with one certain version of ACE and needs to be ordered fr...
5 months ago in App Connect

ACE Designer v13.x.x.x > Kafka Consumer / Producer > Enable search topics

PT-BR: Gostariamos que nos nodes Kafka (Consumer/Producer/Read), seja possível informar o nome do tópico. Este nome informado deverá ser válido e já existir nos brokers kafka conectados. EN-US: We would like the Kafka nodes (Consumer/Producer/Read...
9 months ago in App Connect Future consideration

ACE Integration with IBM MQ Native HA

Based on case TS021322421, and the clarification provided by App Connect Support indicating that IBM App Connect Enterprise does not currently have official documentation, testing, or support for IBM MQ Native HA, we would like to formally communi...
2 months ago in App Connect Submitted