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Status Not under consideration
Workspace MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 26, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

MQMFT Operator in CP4I

CP4I MQ Advance operator don't support MQMFT binaries which is used by many clients including us.

Based on following work, could you include this feature as part of official CP4I offerings.

https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/mqmft


Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 2, 2022

    As part of this discussion there are two key components to MFT, the MQ Queue Manager and the MQ MFT Agent. MQ MFT Agents are free when they connect to MQ Queue Managers licensed under a MQ Advanced entitlement. This entitlement can also be provided by CP4I when MQ is deployed using the MQ Advanced ratio.

    IBM provides support for the MFT agent code running within a supported container environment. Customers can decide to build their own container image and we provide a GitHub repo for accelerating this process or they can pull our container from Docker Hub. The image hosted on Docker Hub is provided under the IBM MQ Advanced for Developers license to demonstrate the capabilities, and therefore non-Developer usage would require customers to rebuild the image using our GitHub repository.


    If you would like to discuss further, please contact me directly.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 1, 2022


    Hi Mark,

     

    Thanks for your reply.

     

    If I understood correctly, the DockerHub image you are suggesting is not supported by IBM. Am I missing something here? This feature is blocking my customer to move to CP4I so I would like to understand if this MQ MFT piece is covered in CP4I support, and if not, if there is any alternative.

     

    Thanks in advance,


    Brian Olmeda Morgade

    Customer Success Manager - Architect 

    EMEA Customer Success SRE Community of Practice Lead

    IBM Technology Sales

    United Kingdom & Ireland



     

     

    ----- Original message -----
    From: "IBM (Mark Taylor)" <4fed5935e24f728f6b987a2b-bigblue@iad-prod1.mailer.aha.io>
    To: brian.olmeda.morgade@ibm.com
    Cc:
    Subject: [EXTERNAL] MQMFT Operator in CP4I status has changed to Not under consideration
    Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2022 07:37
     


  • Admin
    Mark Taylor
    Reply
    |     Feb 1, 2022

    Thanks for raising this enhancement, as you note we have already provided an "MFT agent container image" on DockerHub here. Customers can freely download and use in partnership with their MQ Advanced or Cloud Pak for Integration entitlements. We do not have immediate plans to integrate this into our MQ Operator, however we will continue to re-evaluate this based on demand.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 3, 2021

    Thanks for raising this - moved to the MQ ideas list so that it can be appropriately prioritised.

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