What's new in IBM App Connect Enterprise as a Service

Find out about the latest updates in IBM® App Connect Enterprise as a Service.

App Connect Enterprise as a Service is a managed service and the IBM product team updates it regularly with security and bug fixes and new features.

For a list of the currently known limitations for App Connect Enterprise as a Service, see Known limitations.

January 2025

A new version is available for integration runtimes: If you're on the VPC hours plan, you control the modification release version of your integration runtimes. Version 13.0.2 is now available. If you're on the flow runs plan, your runtime environment is always at the latest version. For more information, see Updating the version of your integration runtime. For details of features that are added in App Connect Enterprise modification release 13.0.2, see New functions added in Version 13.0 modification packs in the App Connect Enterprise documentation.

December 2024

Use AWS PrivateLink to connect to services in your AWS Virtual Private Cloud: On a paid VPC hours plan, you can use AWS PrivateLink to connect App Connect Enterprise as a Service to a service that is running in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud. AWS PrivateLink connects to services on AWS without the use of public IP addresses or the internet. You can configure inbound and outbound AWS PrivateLink connections. The Switch server is also supported across the AWS PrivateLink connection so that you can use callable flows and port forwarding on the AWS private network. For more information, see Connecting to AWS services with AWS PrivateLink.

Disable public connections to your instance: By default, App Connect Enterprise as a Service allows connections over the public internet. You can now disable public connections for your instance on the Private network connections page. For example, if you disable public connections, no-one can call an API flow in your instance over the public internet. Disabling public connections doesn't affect private network connections.

The App Connect catalog is renamed and moved: The catalog of connectors and APIs that you can add to your event-driven and API flows is now in the Connect category of the navigation pane. The page is called Applications and APIs.

November 2024

The App Connect Designer home page and navigation are updated

A summary of your integration runtimes and deployed integrations is now shown on the App Connect Designer home page.
The Settings page is now called Instance settings and contains AI controls for your instance.
A new Connect category in the navigation pane contains the Private networks, Callable flows, and Public API credentials pages.

October 2024

A new version is available for integration runtimes: Following the release of App Connect Enterprise 13.0, if you're on the VPC hours plan, you can now choose to upgrade your integration runtimes to version 13.0. If you're on the flow runs plan, your instance is updated automatically to version 13.0. For more information, see Upgrading to version 13.0. For details of features that are added in App Connect Enterprise 13.0, see What's new in Version 13.0 in the App Connect Enterprise documentation.

The rate limit for the API has increased: The rate limit for the App Connect Enterprise as a Service API has increased to 100 requests in a 5-minute period. For more information, see API for IBM App Connect Enterprise as a Service.

September 2024

Monitor your deployed integrations: The Monitor page was previously available on the VPC hours plan to monitor memory and CPU usage for your runtimes. You can now also monitor the number of flow runs and the levels of latency for your deployed integrations on both the VPC hours and flow runs plans. For more information, see Monitoring resources.

The Apptio Targetprocess connector is renamed: The Apptio Targetprocess connector is renamed to IBM Targetprocess.

July 2024

Deploy integrations from the Manage page: If you're on the VPC hours plan, you deploy an integration by exporting it as a BAR file, then creating an integration runtime in the App Connect Dashboard to host your BAR file. You can now deploy integrations from the Manage page, without having to export event-driven or API flows to the Dashboard. You can also deploy event-driven and API flows from the flow editor and from the Designer dashboard page.
This new feature provides a more streamlined way to deploy your integrations and more flexibility in how you deploy. Users on the flow runs plan already use the Manage page to deploy integrations, so this feature provides a similar deployment experience for both plans.
Note: This new method of deployment is in development and is available alongside the existing deployment method while the new method is being developed.

For more information, see Deploying integrations from the Manage page.

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

June 2024

Import GraphQL APIs: You can now import GraphQL APIs to the App Connect catalog so that you can use them in your flows. For more information, see Importing GraphQL APIs.

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

Support is added for record and replay: If you configured record and reply for message flows that you developed in the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit, you can now select recorded message data to replay when you view details of the deployed integration runtime. The selected messages are added to the replay list and you can resubmit them for processing to a selected IBM MQ destination. For more information, see Viewing details about deployed integrations.

May 2024

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

The flexEngage connector is deprecated: The flexEngage connector is deprecated because it will be removed in the future.

April 2024

The Infobip connector is available: The Infobip connector is now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

A new version is available for integration runtimes: If you're on the VPC hours plan, you control the modification release version of your integration runtimes. Version 12.0.12 is now available and version 12.0.10 is removed. If you're on the flow runs plan, your runtime environment is always at the latest version. For more information, see Updating the version of your integration runtime. For details of features that are added in App Connect Enterprise modification release 12.0.12, see New functions added in Version 12.0 modification packs in the App Connect Enterprise documentation.

March 2024

Monitoring is available for integration runtimes: If you're on the VPC hours plan, the Monitoring page of App Connect Designer shows CPU and memory usage data for your integration runtimes. You can use the monitoring data to check that your runtimes have the appropriate amount of resources. For more information, see Monitoring resources.

February 2024

The MySQL connector is available: The MySQL connector is now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

January 2024

A new version is available for integration runtimes: If you're on the VPC hours plan, you control the modification release version of your integration runtimes. Version 12.0.11 is now available and version 12.0.9 is removed. If you're on the flow runs plan, your runtime environment is always at the latest version. For more information, see Updating the version of your integration runtime. For details of features that are added in App Connect Enterprise modification release 12.0.11, see New functions added in Version 12.0 modification packs in the App Connect Enterprise documentation.

December 2023

A downloadable secure agent is available for private network connections: You can now use a lightweight secure agent to set up a private network connection between App Connect Enterprise as a Service and application endpoints that are running in your network. Previously, to set up a private network connection, you had to install IBM App Connect Enterprise on premises and create and configure an integration server as a secure agent. Now, you can download the secure agent from App Connect without the need to install App Connect Enterprise. For more information, see Connecting to a private network.

Import published APIs from IBM API Connect: You can now use App Connect Designer to discover published APIs in IBM API Connect Enterprise as a Service. You can then import these APIs into the App Connect catalog so that you can use them in your flows. To discover APIs, your instance of IBM API Connect Enterprise as a Service must be in the same region as your App Connect Enterprise as a Service instance. For more information, see Importing APIs from IBM API Connect.

Use the public API to administer batch processes: You can now use the App Connect Enterprise as a Service API to view details of your batch processes and to pause, resume, and stop the file extraction part of a batch process. For more information, see Administering batch processes with the API.

The Amazon Redshift connector is available: The Amazon Redshift connector is now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

November 2023

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

October 2023

Support added to import SOAP web services to App Connect Designer: You can now add SOAP web services to the App Connect catalog by importing a WSDL or .zip file. You can then use the imported web services in your flows. For more information, see Importing SOAP web services.

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

More events are available

The following connectors now support events that you can use to trigger event-driven and API flows in App Connect Designer.

Callable flow
Eventbrite

Some connectors are renamed

The following connectors have been renamed.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory is now Microsoft Entra ID.
Yammer is now Microsoft Viva Engage.

Some connectors are removed

The following connectors have been removed from the catalog.

Acoustic Campaign
IBM Watson Language Translator

A new version is available for integration runtimes: If you're on the VPC hours plan, you control the modification release version of your integration runtimes. Version 12.0.10 is now available and version 12.0.8 is removed. If you're on the flow runs plan, your runtime environment is always at the latest version. For more information, see Updating the version of your integration runtime. For details of features that are added in App Connect Enterprise modification release 12.0.10, see New functions added in Version 12.0 modification packs in the App Connect Enterprise documentation.

September 2023

A new price plan is available

You can now choose from two price plans when you buy a subscription to App Connect Enterprise as a Service.

If you choose the new Resource Unit (Flow Run) plan, you're charged for the number of flow runs that you trigger. You pay for multiples of 100,000 flow runs per annum.
If you choose the Runtime Compute Capacity plan, you're charged for the amount of resources that are allocated to process your integrations. You pay for multiples of 10,000 VPC hours per annum.

For more information, see Pricing plans.

Batch processing is available: You can use a batch process to copy records from one external system to another, or to complete an action that needs to be repeated many times. Batch processes are optimized for handling larger volumes of data than the standard retrieve action in IBM App Connect Enterprise as a Service. Integrations that include batch processes must be deployed to integration runtimes at version 12.0.8 or later. For more information, see Using batch processing in IBM App Connect.

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

August 2023

A public API is available: The App Connect Enterprise as a Service API provides access to resources in your instance. You typically use the API to automate the deployment lifecycle of your integrations from continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. The API provides an alternative way to complete tasks that you complete in the App Connect Dashboard. You can use the API to administer BAR files, configurations, integration runtimes, trace, and batch processes. For more information, see API for IBM App Connect Enterprise as a Service.

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

July 2023

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

A new version is available for integration runtimes: If you're on the VPC hours plan, you control the modification release version of your integration runtimes. Version 12.0.9 is now available and version 12.0.7 is removed. If you're on the flow runs plan, your runtime environment is always at the latest version. For more information, see Updating the version of your integration runtime. For details of features that are added in App Connect Enterprise modification release 12.0.9, see New functions added in Version 12.0 modification packs in the App Connect Enterprise documentation.

June 2023

New regions are available: App Connect Enterprise as a Service is now available in Sydney (ap-southeast-2) and Mumbai (ap-south-1). For more information, see Solution architecture.

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

Support for two new configuration types for integration runtimes: You can now apply the Vault and Vault key configurations to integration runtimes when you deploy integrations that you create in IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit. Use the Vault type configuration to supply a prepopulated vault in the form of a .zip file that was created in IBM App Connect Enterprise. The vault stores encrypted connection credentials for the secured resources that your message flows reference. The Vault configuration must be used with the Vault Key type configuration, which provides the key for the vault.

May 2023

Unified authoring with IBM API Connect: If you have an instance of API Connect in the same region as your App Connect instance, you can show your API in both App Connect Designer and API Connect. This feature is known as unified authoring. With unified authoring, when you create and start an API flow in your Designer instance, the API is published automatically in API Connect. For more information, see Creating flows for an API from scratch.

Support added for IBM App Connect Enterprise 12.0.8.0: You can now create an integration runtime at version 12.0.8. Version 12.0.7 is also supported, but if you want to upgrade your integration runtimes to version 12.0.8.0, see Updating the version of your integration runtime. If the integration that you're deploying includes version 12.0.8 features, you must create an integration runtime at version 12.0.8.

More connectors are available

The following connectors are now available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

Support for new configuration types for integration runtimes

You can now apply the following configurations to integration runtimes when you deploy your integrations.

The db2cli.ini type configuration provides data source locations that your integration needs to connect to an IBM Db2 database.
The mqccdt type configuration provides a client channel definition table (CCDT), which contains channel definitions and authentication information that your integration needs to connect to an IBM MQ queue manager.
The mqccred.ini type configuration provides a user ID and password that your integration needs to authenticate with an IBM MQ queue manager.

IBM Master Data Management connector is removed: The IBM Master Data Management connector is no longer available in the App Connect Designer catalog.

April 2023

Microsoft OneDrive for Business connector is available: The Microsoft OneDrive for Business connector is now available in the App Connect Designer catalog. Connect to Microsoft OneDrive for Business to access shared files and folders from multiple devices. For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect with Microsoft OneDrive for Business.

Free self-study course and IBM badge available: A free self-study course and badge are now available on IBM Training. IBM App Connect Enterprise as a Service - Essentials is designed for users who are either new to application integration, or experienced in integration but new to App Connect. You can learn how to build an integration and an API in App Connect Enterprise as a Service, then apply what you learn to your own business use cases.

A new version is available for integration runtimes: If you're on the VPC hours plan, you control the modification release version of your integration runtimes. Version 12.0.8 is now available. If you're on the flow runs plan, your runtime environment is always at the latest version. For more information, see Updating the version of your integration runtime. For details of features that are added in App Connect Enterprise modification release 12.0.8, see New functions added in Version 12.0 modification packs in the App Connect Enterprise documentation.

March 2023

A callable flow connector is available: The Callable flow connector is now available in the App Connect Designer catalog. You can use a Callable flow node in an App Connect Enterprise as a Service flow to call a running callable flow in IBM App Connect Enterprise on premises. The on-premises callable flow returns data to be processed in the flow in the managed service. For more information, see Splitting processing with callable flows.

JDBC connector is available: The JDBC connector is now available in the App Connect Designer catalog. You can use the JDBC connector to connect to supported databases. For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect with JDBC.

IBM MQ connector is available: The IBM MQ connector is now available in the App Connect Designer catalog. IBM MQ supports the exchange of information between applications, systems, services, and files by sending and receiving message data through messaging queues. You can use the IBM MQ connector to connect to supported IBM MQ queue managers and to complete certain operations. For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect with IBM MQ.

Collecting user or service trace: You can now collect user or service trace for deployed integration runtimes. For more information, see Collecting trace for deployed flows.

February 2023

Amazon EventBridge connector is available: The Amazon EventBridge connector is now available in the App Connect Designer catalog. Connect to Amazon EventBridge, which can create scalable events from your applications that can integrate with Amazon Web Services (AWS). For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect with Amazon EventBridge.

Snowflake connector is available: The Snowflake connector is now available in the App Connect Designer catalog. Connect to Snowflake, which provides a platform for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and secure sharing of data. For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect with Snowflake.