What's new with the IBM Connector Development Kit

July 2023

New features

• Enabled support for the Operators function for query parameters.
• Enabled support for marking properties that are nested under a complex property as mandatory.
• Enabled enum support for request properties.
• Enabled date-time type support for request and response properties.

Usability improvements

• Improvements to the Connector Development Kit user interface.

February 2024

• Enabled support for configuring polled events. For more information, see Configuring polled events.

April 2024

• Replaced the Test tab with the Test actions and Test events tab that can be used to test both actions and polled events. For more information, see Testing a connector.
• Added support for created and updated query templates in polling configuration. For more information, see Updating polling configuration.

June 2024

• Added support for testing connection configuration (ping configuration) to check whether the connection you created works correctly. For more information, see Test connection configuration.

July 2024

• Connector Development Kit now supports creating multiple versions (major, minor, or patch versions) of the same connector. For more information, see Connector versioning.

August 2024

• You can now map connector error codes to standardized IBM App Connect error codes. For more information, see Error code mapping.

September 2024

• Redesigned the connection properties tab.

October 2024

• New way of building connector objects and actions with the help of generative AI powered by IBM watsonx. For more information, see Creating a connector by using generative AI (experimental feature).
• Changes to the UI for creating a connector, and adding and removing actions for a connector.

November 2024

• Bug fixes and improvements in the new feature to build connector objects and actions that are assisted by the generative AI.