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Status Future consideration
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 26, 2024

Azure Service Bus message flow node for ACE

We have been running ACE on CP4I on Openshift since a few years. Recently there has been requirements to be able to connect to Azure Service Bus from ACE to either read messages from queues or topics. The ACE's JMS provider policy allows this provided the required jar files and configurations are in place.

However, it would be great if IBM made a Azure Service Bus flow node that would support this out-of-the-box without having to go through the complex configuration, not to mention the life cycle management of the jar files which isn't easy. The jar files themselves are using the AMQPS protocol to connect to Azure Service Bus, I am not sure, alternatively if its possible to use MQ Light to create a channel instead of having to use ACE here.

NOTE: Needless to say the username and password must be added using the mqsicredentials or mqsisetdbparms command.

References:

https://medium.com/@abudavis/reading-from-azure-service-bus-using-app-connect-enterprise-a565519940c6

https://integrationdesigners.com/blog/how-to-connect-to-azure-service-bus-using-app-connect-enterprise/

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Ben Thompson
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    Nov 29, 2024

    Thank you for taking the time to raise this enhancement request, and in particular for the links which you included to the blogs. These were helpful for us in clarifying the difference between what you have already managed to get to work in the ACE product in its current form, and the vision you have painted for a future Azure Service Bus Toolkit message flow node. As noted, the Toolkit's JMS node is intended to work with any JMS compliant provider, but comes with the disadvantage that a user must provide the JMS driver themselves, and for those not familiar with the transport they might find the configuration complex. A discovery connector, which presents a graphical dialog for connecting to the Azure Service Bus which already has built into it all the drivers it needs, would make the product more useable. Typically discovery connectors do not necessarily expose the protocol by which they connect to the endpoint application, so it could be that AMQPS is not necessarily the means by which such a connector would gather back metatdata / connect at runtime. Also noted, the ability to address the queue/topic definition seems a of key importance to the requirement. Status is updated to Future Consideration. We will also pass this requirement on to our Product Manager for connectors ( @Varun Jain ) as we would likely want to implement this as a Discovery Connector that could be used both within a Toolkit message flow and also a Designer message flow.