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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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IBM API Connect compliant with RFC 9457 (Problem Details for HTTP APIs)

RFC 9457, "Problem Details for HTTP APIs," is a significant advancement in standardizing error responses for HTTP APIs. Implementing it within IBM API Connect offers several key advantages, enhancing the quality and usability of your APIs. Here's ...
19 days ago in API Connect 2 Future consideration

EEM to abstract producers and consumers from underneath Kafka clusters

The idea is to use EEM as an enabler or booster of Kafka high availability and resilience capabilities. The idea is that EEM serves as an abstraction layer from the underneath kafka clusters for the producers and consumers so that these do not pro...
9 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 0 Future consideration

API Maintenance mode

Today we have on the API Gateway a button to update, activate Mock and enable an API. Can we have a maintenance mode button that response "503 Service Unavailable".
25 days ago in webMethods API Gateway 0 Future consideration

Consistent technique for mirroring images for an air-gapped cluster - OpenShift and CPs

Currently Redhat recommends oc -mirror for replicating images for gapped install. CP4I recommends a different tool and as a result customers have to install/support two different toolset to mirror images for air-gapped install. Would like a consis...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 7 Future consideration

Request for Adding Limited GitOps Functionality to default Domain

We have some use cases around form factor portability and cloud instance provisioning where it might be helpful to have an automated approach to loading common configurations to the default domain through GitOps. Some examples are the RBM and ODR ...
10 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Future consideration

ACE BAR include the option to generate default values (“Build message tree using schema data types”) when validate option is enabled

We have around one thousand ACE v12 flows that consist of SOAP services (SOAP Request + SOAP Reply). In the flows, we build the SOAP reply message using ESQL, but we are facing an issue regarding the reply message: Some fields with "default value"...
5 months ago in App Connect 1 Future consideration

Add Aliases (SecureAlias, EndpointAlias and other sensitive information) to be controlled by functional privileges (aka teams functionality)

Currently access to only Applications and API assets is controlled by means of functional privileges. Other sensitive information like e.g. SecureAliases, EndpointAliases etc are not controlled by functional privileges leading to the intolerable d...
20 days ago in webMethods API Gateway 0 Future consideration

Automatically rebuild XCF structure for QSG QMGR

If a QSG is moved to a recovery site, not all parts of the primary site are moved. If the couple data sets are missing, the recovered z/OS don't have any XCF structure in place. A DB2 data sharing group will start without any problems, automatical...
5 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration

Positive authorisation events

Today, Authority Events are used to trace unauthorized access attempts to an MQ object. For access auditing purposes, we would also like to have “positive authorization” events, i.e. to trace authorized access to a particular MQ object.
16 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Future consideration

Improve support for polymorphism in Map policy

API Connect v10 prides itself in supporting Open API 3.0 (with some limitations), but some of its default policies do not support the full range of the standard, like polymorfism. The map policy throws an error if the API draft document has any re...
7 months ago in API Connect 1 Future consideration