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Idea / RFE Review. Unfortunately there has not been further interest noted on this idea since our last update in October 2020. In its current form we feel that this request for enhancement is potentially not precise enough to gather accurate feedback. The previous comment outlined our thinking in the 4 separate functional areas under discussion - some of which we feel are more urgently vying for attention than others. In future, we intend to continue evolving our public cloud strategy with the IIB / ACE technology set and in particular the need to provide an alternate technology for an embedded global cache is likely to receive attention at some stage. If you feel other aspects of the initial propsal are worthy of specific enhancement requests expressing the requisite detail then please feel free to re-raise and we will consider.
RFE Review. Thank you for taking the time to raise this enhancement suggestion and apologies it has been in Submitted status for so long. Since initially raised, we have of course continued to evolve our public cloud offering. The nature of the service as a managed service does apply some constraints, as of course does the fact that we have deliberately chosen to pursue a container based architecture. To directly comment on the specific items which have been mentioned in the RFE:
a) File functionality
b) Global cache
c) web user interface
d) configuration of integration nodes/servers
a) Whilst we have enabled FTP functionality, we have maintained that without direct access to the container and its local file system, file functionality requires some major engineering to make it amenable for a managed environment. We will continue to look at this aspect of enhancement in the future.
b) The architectural approach we have taken so far is to enable containers to be easily moveable and ephemeral... for use cases involving complex networking such as the cache, this becomes difficult. We have not yet chosen to support global cache for these scenarios as we feel that long term there are probably better suited technologies for these use cases - potentially REDIS perhaps.
c) There have been lots of enhancements in this area since the RFE was raised. We will continue to enhance this as it is clearly very important for the service going foward.
d) We do not intend to support integration nodes - we will continue down the path of independent integration servers being much more suited to this environment.
Status of the RFE is updated to Uncommitted Candidate.