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  • 1.  Request For Enhancements (Ideas) for DataPower - waste of time?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Mon February 21, 2022 03:07 PM
    I'm getting a lot of emails today from IBM Ideas for one Request For Enhancement (RFE) after another being rejected to a status of "Not under consideration".
    No feedback on why.

    Can IBM DataPower demonstrate any evidence of even one RFE being considered and implemented?  Other technologies (like IBM MQ) highlight the RFEs they implemented in each Release and when they reject an RFE they give a thoughtful response why.

    I don't expect every RFE to be implemented. Not even 10% of them. But it seems IBM DataPower is shooting for 0.0%

    It feels, to me, that all DataPower RFEs get rejected with the thought process "That's not how DataPower works today. Rejected."


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    Peter Potkay
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  • 2.  RE: Request For Enhancements (Ideas) for DataPower - waste of time?

    Posted Mon February 28, 2022 01:24 PM
    I'm not with IBM but if I had to hazard a guess, I would think they would prefer to put more effort into a REST based product like API Connect rather than a SOAP based product like Datapower since REST is the present/future, until the next big thing comes along.  :)

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    Jennifer Stipe
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  • 3.  RE: Request For Enhancements (Ideas) for DataPower - waste of time?

    Posted Tue March 01, 2022 09:26 AM

    Hi Peter,


    it is difficult for me as IBMer to cross relate the different systems, but I found two RFEs (one created in 2020, one in 2021) that both got implemented in 10.0.4.0 CD release 12/2021, and therefore will be available in next LTS as well:
    https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=146584

    https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=148690

    There are definitely more, and even the two are not flagged as implemented in RFE community ...



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    Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
    Compiler Level 3 support & Fixpack team lead
    IBM DataPower Gateways (⬚ᵈᵃᵗᵃ / ⣏⠆⡮⡆⢹⠁⡮⡆⡯⠂⢎⠆⡧⡇⣟⡃⡿⡃)
    https://stamm-wilbrandt.de/en/blog/
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  • 4.  RE: Request For Enhancements (Ideas) for DataPower - waste of time?

    Posted Tue March 01, 2022 09:31 AM
    Ooops, the top of these RFEs states that both have been migrated to new "Aha!" system, but even there they are marked as "Future consideration" only.

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    Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
    Compiler Level 3 support & Fixpack team lead
    IBM DataPower Gateways (⬚ᵈᵃᵗᵃ / ⣏⠆⡮⡆⢹⠁⡮⡆⡯⠂⢎⠆⡧⡇⣟⡃⡿⡃)
    https://stamm-wilbrandt.de/en/blog/
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