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IBM Event Automation

Enhancement to IBM MQ Connector to support fixed-length RecordBuilder

Opening this Idea request for the IBM MQ Kafka Connector to support a new RecordBuilder capable of converting fixed-length MQ messages into Kafka Connect ConnectRecord objects. I believe this will a great enhancement to the product, particularly v...
10 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Streams 0 Submitted

Automation Status Summary

Component Status Tooling Limitation EEM Gateway Deployment Fully Automated Terraform No CRD support Kafka Cluster Registration Fully Automated Terraform + Admin API No CRD support CA Certificate Management Fully Automated Terraform + Admin API No ...
13 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 1 Needs more information

Lack of Kubernetes-Native Resource Management

Current State IBM EEM does not provide Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) or Custom Resources (CRs) for managing core platform components. Unlike other IBM Event Automation products, such as IBM Event Streams, which leverage Strimzi CRD...
13 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 1 Needs more information

Lack of Programmatic Access Token Lifecycle Management

Current State The EEM Admin API relies on a static bearer token that must be manually retrieved from the EEM Manager UI and stored in a secrets vault. No API capability currently exists to generate, rotate, renew, or refresh these credentials prog...
13 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 1 Needs more information

Absence of an Application Management Admin API

Current State The EEM Admin API endpoint (/admin/subscriptions) does not support the application model introduced in EEM 11.8.0. Applications created through the EEM Portal UI are not exposed through the /admin/subscriptions endpoint. Additionally...
13 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 1 Planned for future release

EEM CLI for rest API usage and AI integration

Usage of the various APIs with eem backend requires a good bit of knowledge as well as a little finickety to setup using tools like curl or https request libraries.We can encode a lot of this setup into a simple CLI tool for development or for cus...
13 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 0 Future consideration

Stop Event Streams instance

I believe it would be beneficial for many customers, certainly mine, to be able to stop their Event Streams instances for many reasons: 1. The customer may require to stop their Event Streams instances so that they can undergo maintenance (at Open...
9 months ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Streams 1 Planned for future release

Allow group-based cluster maintainer assignment instead of individual ownership when onboarding Event Streams clusters in EEM

The current model associates a cluster maintainer with an individual user, and only the designated owner of the cluster configuration is authorized to add or manage topics. While this provides clear ownership, it also creates a dependency on a sin...
24 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 0 Future consideration

Support label-based mapping between registered Event Gateways and Kafka clusters in EEM, so only designated gateways connect to a given cluster

Currently, every Event Gateway registered with an Event Endpoint Management instance receives the configuration for all Kafka clusters defined in that EEM instance, and establishes connections to each of them. There is no mechanism to scope which ...
25 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 0 Needs more information

Support configuring tolerations for the EEM operator pod in the ibm-eem-operator Helm chart

The ibm-eem-operator Helm chart currently allows node affinity to be configured for the operator pod, but provides no value for specifying tolerations. This makes it impossible to schedule the operator onto dedicated node pools that are reserved u...
25 days ago in IBM Event Automation / Event Endpoint Management 0 Future consideration