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Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I)

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Consistent technique for mirroring images for an air-gapped cluster - OpenShift and CPs

Currently Redhat recommends oc -mirror for replicating images for gapped install. CP4I recommends a different tool and as a result customers have to install/support two different toolset to mirror images for air-gapped install. Would like a consis...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 7 Future consideration

Create general overview documentation about CP4I product updates and compability

In a meeting with IBM I have raised the topic that there is a missing general overview documentation about CP4I product updates and compability similarly as there is an existing for ACE fixpacks, operators & operands like https://www.ibm.com/...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 2 Future consideration

Remove requirement to have a unique license value for every minor version of ACE image on CP4I

We are trying to setup a lifecycle process for upgrading ACE image run by the ACE integration server pods on CP4I on Openshift in our production environment. In order to have a smooth cutover/upgrade an Integration server pod to a higher version o...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 4 Future consideration

Provide a declarative way to define a remote repository in Asset Repo.

More and more customers are adopting GitOps to work with OCP to avoid having to define resources manually, but at the moment the only way to define a remote repository in Asset Repo is using the UI, which works fine, but limits customers that are ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 0 Future consideration

Add a "Provider Organization" as a declarative resource associated with APIC for Assemblies.

Provider Organizations are not resources that change than often and they may not been considered a developer related resource, however, to provide an integrated experience with consistency, having the option to create a Provider Organization in a ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 2 Future consideration

Provide a new resource type for a git like repository and/or an image registry in the Canvas

This type if resource can be linked to an Integration Runtime and simplify the way you provide a BAR file (git) or the full image (image repository) to support both the "fry" and "bake" model used by Integration Runtimes when using the Canvas to c...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 1 Future consideration

Have an option to create a Uniform Cluster when creating a queue manager.

In addition to create a "regular" queue manager via the assembly where you can select the availability type, it would be good to provide an option to create a Uniform Cluster (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=cluster-about-uniform-clus...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka Connect as a resource in Assemblies.

Customers that implement Event Streams usually want to integrate with other systems taking advantage of the Kafka Connect framework, so having a way to define Kafka Connect via the Canvas could help with this work creating a consistent approach.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 0 Future consideration

Bare-Metal Openshift Redbook, followed with CP4* installation chapters

Many of my financial customers are not going to put their data out in AWS/Azure/Google/Off Prem cloud, however they do want the advantages of cloud on-prem and specifically with the license changes of monolithic to cloud pack within IBM, the flexi...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 3 Future consideration

Support HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaling) for Integration Runtimes when used in conjunction with Assemblies.

Integration Runtimes have supported HPA for some time (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/containers_cd?topic=ayisir-configuring-horizontal-pod-autoscaling-integration-server-integration-runtime-pods) and several customers are exploring this ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) 0 Future consideration