Overview

IBM® DataPower® Gateway serves as the enterprise-grade, field-proven, security-rich API gateway. The DataPower Gateway is available in physical, virtual, cloud, Linux®, and Docker form factors.

The DataPower Gateway is a single multichannel gateway that helps provide security, control, integration, and optimized access. These capabilities apply to a full range of mobile, web, application programming interface (API), service-oriented architecture (SOA), B2B, and cloud workloads. The capabilities help you to rapidly expand the scope of valuable IT assets to new channels that gives customers, employees, and partners access to critical resources.

Upgrade requirements

Before you upgrade to 10.5.1 or an update package in this CD stream, review the following requirement.

  • 10.5.1 - The following SSH cipher suites, KEX algorithms, and MAC algorithms are no longer available and might impact SSH connections where the DataPower Gateway is an SSH client or SSH server.
    Cipher suites
    • 3des-cbc
    • aes128-cbc
    • aes192-cbc
    • aes256-cbc
    • arcfour
    • arcfour128
    • arcfour256
    • blowfish-cbc
    • cast128-cbc
    • rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se
    KEX algorithms
    • diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
    • diffie-hellman-group14-sha1
    • diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1
    MAC algorithms
    • hmac-sha1-96
    • hmac-md5
    • hmac-md5-96
    • hmac-ripemd160
    • hmac-ripemd160@openssh.com
    • hmac-sha1-96-etm@openssh.com
    • hmac-md5-etm@openssh.com
    • hmac-md5-96-etm@openssh.com
    • hmac-ripemd160-etm@openssh.com

Compatibility with API Connect

To determine whether your DataPower firmware version is compatible with API Connect, Use the Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) website to generate a requirements report appropriate for your API Connect version and environment.

To generate an API Connect requirements report, complete the following steps.
  1. Open the Detailed system requirements for a specific product page on the SPCR website.
  2. Search for the API Connect.
  3. In the Search results list, select IBM API Connect.
  4. From the Version list, select your version.
  5. Use the Filters to refine the contents of the requirements report.
  6. Click Submit to generate your requirements report.