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Status Not under consideration
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 25, 2023

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App Connect Enterprise - provide CLI option to set/modify "userRetrievableCredentialTypes"

userRetrievableCredentialTypes is a property of App Connect Enterprise to define which "credentials types" could be read by the application. 

As of today the property needs to be modify / set directly in the server.conf.yaml.  
There is no way to change the property via a command line call like "mqsichangeproperty" - or any equivalent. 

This is a pity of a couple of customer - as they need to touch/modify the server.conf.yaml file directly. 

Why is this a pity? 
--> typically the customer use standard CLI commands to modify the integration server parameter. 
One example is "mqsichangeproperties".  The advantage: the  CLI commands could be easily added to a "setup/deployment script". 
For userRetrievableCredentialTypes  they now have to touch in addition the server.conf.yaml file. 
This has two disadvantages: 
- the customer needs to extend their setup / deployment logic to modify the file - which is more difficult than running a CLI command / script. 
- the customer needs to take care about another "config approach / handling" of its integration server (another small - but extra layer for configuration)

Bottom line: it would be great to have a CLI command to  change the userRetrievableCredentialTypes property. 

 

 

Idea priority Medium
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    Ben Thompson
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    |     Jan 15, 2024

    Idea review. Thank you very much for taking the time to raise this suggestion, but unfortunately on this occasion we will not be taking the idea forward. ACE has a very large number of possible configuration properties which particular users may want to specify for their own purposes and in general our architectural direction these days is to embrace declarative styling (defining properties up front in the server.conf.yaml file before starting a server) so that ACE can be a first-class citizen in cloud-native/Kubernetes environments. Controlling ACE behaviour in this way avoids the need for such a large number of dynamic options (ie those options not requiring server restart to take effect) and also avoids the need for a user to "log on" to an environment and make a change - using operator code and pre-declared yaml files with property settings is a much more efficient way of driving consistency through a set of installations. There are some cases where dynamic / command-based control is still required but this is a diminishing set of usecases, and choosing whether a JCN is allowed to retrieve a particular type of credential is more fringe than mainstream. Sorry we won't be taking this one any further. Best Regards, Ben

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