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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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Enable IBM DataPower and IBM API Gateway to export logs via OpenTelemetry (OTLP), alongside existing tracing, so customers can stream gateway logs natively to any OTel-compatible backend

Why this matters: Enterprises are standardizing on OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral observability. DataPower already supports OpenTelemetry traces; not supporting logs forces customers to maintain parallel pipelines (syslog/NFS/File/SOAP) and cust...
5 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Keeping the option to switch between new and old webgui due to performance issues

We are currently experiencing significant performance issues with the new WebGUI. It would be very important to have the option to switch between the two GUIs and set a preferred default until these issues are resolved. Several teams manage around...
about 17 hours ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Enhancement to IBM MQ Connector JSON record builder to include schema

Opening this idea for IBM MQ Connector to include record key/value schema for JSON payloads. This can either be created under new Record builder or maybe an enhancement to the existing JSON record builder. This will allow for the following: Allow ...
1 day ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Streams 0 Submitted

Enable Context Variables for parse Policy

Currently it is not possible to use Context Variables as described in Variable references in API Connect - IBM Documentation. This behavioral limits the usage of the parse policy in user-defined policies because we must always use max values. This...
2 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Add the OTEL Traces while calling the External OAuth Service within the Api

it will give better insights to the customer and corelate the trace from end-end systems
6 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted

Split the EventStreams headless service for the Kafka broker and controller into 2 separate services to avoid "duplicate timestamp" issue in OCP kube-state-metrics

After upgrade to Event Streams operator 12 (exact operator version 12.0.2) we have observed that the Endpoint resource event-brk-<env>-kafka-brokers contains duplicate entries for kafka broker and kafka controller, causing PrometheusDuplicat...
9 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Streams 0 Submitted

Ability to publish to dynamic JMS Topics

A challenge we have encountered with WebMethods is the strict reliance on topics being defined in JNDI, either in part or their entirety. For example, where we may be dealing with vehicle data, the source system generates events for these vehicles...
19 days ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime 0 Submitted

Support Client Credentials in pub.client.oauth:getExternalAccessToken

OAuth 2.0 Client Credential flow is highly recommended for machine to machine communication. Currently it is not supported by built-in service (but should be actually very easy to adapt. Also webMethods uses ScribeJava 1.3.0 that is from 2011. It ...
19 days ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime 1 Submitted

Read-Only access to webMethods Integration Server Administrator Portal

Read-Only access to the Integration Server Admin Console would be really helpful for Developers / Testers to review the package version, trigger / scheduler status, configurations, server statistics, ports, external server details etc.
about 1 month ago in webMethods Integration/Microservices Runtime 0 Submitted

Option to control Payload compression and decrompression in APIGW Object

Same like MPGW, If we have the option to control the payload compression/decompression for the Api's whichever processing via APIGW object it will help us when we have the large payloads from the backend to process smoothly via Datapower Api Gateway.
14 days ago in DataPower Gateway 0 Submitted