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Status Future consideration
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 26, 2024

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Add last update date and optional expires date to credentials

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The request is to add two additional properties to all credential types.  Both properties should display as normal text in the UI tiles or when retrieved by the Rest API.  The first property is LastUpdatedDate which would be automatically set when the credential is created or updated.  Having this information would make it easier to tell when a credential was created or if it was recently updated.   This would be useful in trouble-shooting and auditing.   The second property is ExpiresOnDate.  This would be a new optional property that could be set when the credential is created or updated.  It would be intended to allow the user to record when the credential is set to expire.  This would be useful when using expiring credential secrets (i.e. password, client_secret) that must be periodically renewed/refreshed.   For example, we could use the Rest API to generate a report showing all credentials that will be expiring in the next 60 days so that we could plan for their renewal.   The mqsicredentials command could either strictly enforce the use of standard date formats (i.e. 2024-10-15) or just allow freeform text (i.e. "Expires at midnight on Oct 15, 2004")  Either way is acceptable. 

Idea priority Medium
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    Ben Thompson
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    |     Nov 26, 2024

    Thank you for raising this idea Steve and for the brief further discussion that we managed on this topic face to face when we last met. We are moving the status of this suggestion to Future Consideration.


    The timestamps mentioned (which clearly each have a distinct purpose) would need to be displayed in the Web UI in order to bring value to the user (so should be treated more like the username part of a credential as opposed to the password part which is deliberately obscured from the webUI admin interface). In terms of implementation we think the extra metadata could be stored in the credential json itself, so this does seem achievable within the constraints of the existing architecture. Thanks for raising - we will watch with interest to see if the idea gains traction from the community.

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