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Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 3, 2024

Add Kafka to Open Enterprise Foundation

The open source tool Kafka is increasingly becoming a common platform for Z tools. We know of Omegamon, Common Data Provider, IBM Z Anomaly Analytics.

The idea is to add this therefor to the Open Enterprise Foundation product.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Hyder Naqvi
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    Sep 3, 2024

    Hello Niek. We will look into adding kafka support possibly in the future. Currently we are going through planning phase where we will assess this as a possibility.

    We have been interested in including you in some discussions. However, it seems we do not have your correct email address. We have been using the email address linked to this IDEA to send you an invitation.

  • Guest
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    Aug 26, 2024

    Will anybody respond to my comment or should I create a new Idea?

  • Guest
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    Aug 5, 2024

    Thank you for the update.

    The IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka for z/OS is not what I meant. 

    What I meant is support for the Kafka event streaming platform itself, which is the requirement for the tools I mentioned.

  • Guest
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    Jul 3, 2024

    IBM has released a new product, IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka for z/OS.

    For more info, visit: https://www.ibm.com/products/open-enterprise-sdk-kafka-apache