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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...
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...

DataPower Gateway

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why EVEN TCP SOURCE PORT for remote access ?

it seems like the appliance is opening remote connections with always a even source port as shown within file : KLM-Even-Src-Port.pdf Our network team indicated that it may raise an issue on F5 ( BIPIP equipment ) because it uses the same processo...
6 months ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Require IBM DataPower Gateway X3 Appliance to support v10.0.1.5

E.SUN Bank adopts a lot of IBM DataPower Gateway as key integration backbond among all of the internal application systems. According to the the enterprise IT standard and policy, the adopted solution and the software is not able to apply newest v...
over 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Introduce a minimum connections parameter for database connections so that the cost of transaction burst is lessoned.

During a heavy sudden burst of transaction requests we see Db connection errors. The sudden increase in demand causes the appliance to open larger numbers of connections and this 'peak' demand can cause connectivity issues resulting in failed tran...
7 months ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

LogTarget - keep identical event detection

The identical event detection option in LogTarget object has been deprecated since 10.x firmware. IBM recommend disabling it as it might cause the appliance to reload. However, after disabling the option in our email LogTarget for critical events,...
10 months ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Data sources connection retry behavior

Hello Support Team, We would like to have a retry behavior for Data sources configured on datapower appliances. This will limit the number of retry attempts and allow us to fix the user id/password issues if there are any and will not flood our da...
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Support shared sources

Currently an application domain can see files within a visible domain but it can't use those stylesheets or gatewayscripts as shared sources as they are not available to actions. A common workaround is to place the shared sources in the store dire...
5 months ago in DataPower Gateway 2 Not under consideration

Allow LDAP queries from XSLT to take password maps

The LDAP query commands, dp:ldap-search(), ldap-authen() and ldap-simple-query() require the bind password to be in clear text. Can the commands be enhanced to take a password map
over 8 years ago in DataPower Gateway 3 Not under consideration

Datapower Integration Module support for PostgreSQL database connectivity

Datapower Integration Module does not support database connectivity for PostgreSQL. We need this support as an increasing number of customers (e.g. in Public sector in Poland) use PostgreSQL extensively as an alternative to Oracle.
over 2 years ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Keep and don't deprecate current WebGUI

As of 10.5.0.6 the WebGUI is deprecated and followed by "New UI". Please keep WebGUI or both.
over 1 year ago in DataPower Gateway 5 Not under consideration

Displaying the number of used inodes on RAID Volume

On datapower, following a n issue of the B2B Gateway with the following error message "down - Too many files on RAID volume",we found that we had inode saturation on the RAID volume. It would be interesting to have a command allowing you to have t...
6 months ago in DataPower Gateway 1 Not under consideration