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App Connect

ACE MCP Server to forward protocol information towards downstream REST API flows

It would be useful to see mcp protocol informations and additional mcp fields in the downstream rest-api flow, either under LocalEnvironment.MCP or in the HTTPInputHeader. An actual business requirement, that we have: we must be able to send data ...
about 19 hours ago in App Connect 1 Submitted

ACE-GoogleCloud PubSub-not able to access using service account-publisher/subscriber role

Using the Google Service Account authentication JSON file, we are successfully able to publish messages to the Pub/Sub topic using both Python and Java applications. The ACE integration is able to connect successfully to the Google Cloud project. ...
7 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

Download IIB fix packs and MQ ++ APAR's via JCL/other techniques to support automation.

We’re planning to automate the installation of IIB 10.1 fix packs on z/OS using SMP/E for the RECEIVE/APPLY process. Today, we manually download the fix packs for IIB 10.1 on z/OS from IBM Fix Central. This RFE requests a way to download IIB fix p...
22 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

add support for ace toolkit on macos / apple silicon

our IBM ACE developers using the ACE toolkit on macos are starting to see warnings on macos 26.5 that intel support will be deprecated in a future macos version. Is there any intent by IBM to support the native arm based architecture at all?
2 months ago in App Connect 1 Under review

Validate Node - Provide support for JSON schema 2020-12 and 2019-09

We have the requirement to validate incoming message against banking specific (predefined) JSON schemas.The schemas are based on the JSON schema specifications 2020-12 and 2019-09. See JSON Schema - Specification [#section] For the validation we w...
24 days ago in App Connect 0 Submitted

Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

While IBM ACE delivers strong core integration and messaging capabilities, ISO 8583 TCP/IP transaction flows currently rely primarily on native logging and flow‑level diagnostics, which offer limited centralized observability and real‑time operati...
5 months ago in App Connect 0 Under review

Extended support for the schema registry

The new Kafka Producer node in ACE 13 is good, but it requires a specific ID from the Schema Registry, which varies by environment and makes it very difficult to deploy to higher environments. Key points (from my PMR): ACE 13 does not resolve sc...
3 months ago in App Connect 0 Under review

Enable OpenTelemetry trace support for IBM App Connect Compute Nodes with configured data sources.

Currently, IBM App Connect supports OpenTelemetry tracing only for transport nodes such as MQ, HTTP, SOAP, Kafka, and REST. However, many enterprise customers rely heavily on Compute Nodes with configured data sources to interact with databases an...
9 months ago in App Connect 2 Submitted

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
12 months ago in App Connect 0 Under review

Expose a pre-emptive vs. reactive authorization toggle for Basic Auth / OAuth directly in the security policy

Right now, whether the server challenges a client pre-emptively or reactively for Basic Auth or OAuth comes down to a setting that's hidden. It's not in the security policy where you'd expect it, and the docs don't make it obvious. You only find i...
about 1 month ago in App Connect 0 Submitted