By - Raj Cherchattil & Roopam Sure
Deploying IBM Cloud Pak for integration (CP4I) generates many queries about the roles and responsibilities essential for successful Day01, Day 1 and Day 2 operations. Customers often seek guidance on how to effectively structure their teams and define clear responsibilities to maintain and optimize their integration environments post-deployment. The specific roles required for each phase of the lifecycle deployment of IBM CP4I on ROSA, ROKS, or ARO can vary depending on the organization's structure, size, and deployment architecture. This document serves as general guidelines and may need to be adjusted to align with the specific needs of the organization.
By adopting CP4I, you've embraced modern, cutting-edge ways to deploy and manage integration technologies. It is a comprehensive, container-based software solution designed to streamline and accelerate business integration across hybrid cloud environments. CP4I leverages IBM's expertise in integration to provide organizations with tools and services to connect applications, systems, and data efficiently and securely. Deploying IBM CP4I on any managed Red Hat Open Shift service on AWS, IBM Cloud or Azure introduces a hybrid cloud environment, combining on-premises and cloud-native technologies. This complexity necessitates specialized roles to manage and maintain the system effectively. Most of the times organizations need to create new potential roles and add skills to already existing roles.
As more organizations adopt our Cloud Paks, we've observed a recurring architectural shift. Transitioning from a centralized, legacy-based architecture to CP4I, which embraces a microservices-driven model, requires both technological and organizational changes. A move to microservices will introduce a new set of challenges, complexity. It’s for this reason we strongly advocate incremental migration to microservice architecture.
At the heart of IBM CP4I lies the Agile Integration Architecture—a cutting-edge framework that embodies a containerized, decentralized, and microservices-aligned approach. This modern architecture is specifically designed to meet the agility, scalability, and resilience demands of digital transformation, ensuring your organization stays competitive and future ready. Agile Integration Architecture focuses on enabling organizations to build, manage, and operate integration solutions more efficiently, allowing them to meet business goals faster. Agile Integration Architecture is built on three foundational pillars:
Three Aspects of Agile Integration
1. Decentralized Ownership (People & Process)
In an Agile Integration model, integration ownership is no longer centralized in one team or department. Instead, it’s distributed across highly empowered and autonomous teams. These teams can self-provision the integration capabilities they need, wherever they are, and interact seamlessly with the capabilities of other teams. This decentralization accelerates development agility, enabling teams to innovate in real time and shorten the cycle from idea to implementation. By fostering this independence, you not only improve how fast new services are created but also allow each team to tailor integration solutions that align with their specific needs and goals.
2. Delivery-Focused Architecture (Architecture & Design)
To support faster deployment and continuous delivery, Agile Integration emphasizes a delivery-focused architecture. This means adopting modern design principles such as API-led and event-driven integration, along with a strong alignment to microservices. By doing so, you enhance deployment agility—teams can build, test, and release updates or new services rapidly. This architecture also promotes modularity, allowing for independent development and deployment of integration components. This kind of architecture is critical to improving production velocity and ensuring that your teams can continuously adapt to changing business needs.
3. Cloud-Native Infrastructure (Infrastructure & Technology)
Agile Integration leverages a cloud-native and platform-neutral infrastructure, ensuring portability and scalability across hybrid, multi-cloud, or on-prem environments. By using containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, your integration solutions gain operational agility. This cloud-native infrastructure enables dynamic scaling, inherent resilience, and seamless portability, ensuring that your systems can grow and adapt to demand without significant re-engineering. This modern, scalable infrastructure is key to maintaining performance under varying loads and achieving operational resilience.
The following are some key design principles for implementing a microservices-based architecture, which will serve as the foundation for what I believe is the most effective approach to your CP4I transformation. These principles are crucial for guiding you through the transition to a more flexible, scalable, and efficient system, while ensuring alignment with best practices in microservices implementation.
1. 1. Cross-Functional Teams - The foundation of a successful microservices transition lies in creating cross-functional teams that are small, autonomous, and accountable for the entire lifecycle of each microservice, from development through to operations. These teams must have the right mix of skills and roles to ensure seamless collaboration, efficient decision-making, and end-to-end ownership of their microservice.
To successfully transition to a microservices architecture, it is not necessary to have a separate cross-functional team for every microservice, even in systems with 200+ services. Instead, teams should be organized around business domains using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles, with each team managing a set of related microservices within a domain. For example, in a shipping & parcel company, one team might oversee the "Order Management" domain, which includes microservices for Order Placement, Tracking, and Cancellation, while another team handles the "Shipping" domain with Delivery Scheduling and Route Optimization services. Teams are designed to be small and autonomous, with each typically consisting of 6–10 members, and can manage multiple microservices depending on the complexity and workload. Critical or highly complex services, such as a real-time Parcel Tracking service, may require dedicated teams, while simpler services, like Notifications, can be grouped under shared teams. To further streamline operations, a Platform Engineering Team can manage shared infrastructure like CP4I’s API Connect, Event Streams, and MQ configurations, enabling service teams to focus on business logic. By organizing teams around domains rather than individual services, companies ensure agility, cost-efficiency, and scalability without overburdening resources.
2. Automation - In today’s agile development world, automation is key to success. This involves everything from automated build pipelines to testing and deployment. Architects need to focus on automating governance too, which might mean implementing things like automated code reviews, creating pipeline templates, or using standardized Helm charts to make sure deployment environments remain consistent, even when teams are working independently.
Generative AI can further accelerate this process by intelligently suggesting optimizations for code, automating documentation generation, or even predicting potential issues in the pipeline. AI-driven tools can learn from past deployments, automatically adapting to new requirements and proactively offering solutions to common roadblocks. This not only enhances efficiency but also frees up teams to focus on more strategic tasks, making automation smarter and more intuitive.
3. Domain-Oriented Organizational Structures - Introducing domain-oriented organizational structures is a foundational principle for aligning technical architecture with business goals, ensuring clearer ownership, accountability, and improved efficiency. This approach is inspired by Domain-Driven Design (DDD), which advocates for structuring teams and systems around specific business domains. By doing so, technical efforts directly support key business functions, fostering tighter alignment between development priorities and organizational objectives. In practice, teams are grouped by business domains, each representing a critical area of the company’s operations. These domains encapsulate specific functionalities and workflows, and their dedicated teams manage the associated microservices. For instance, in a shipping company, you might define domains such as Orders, Payments, and Shipping.
4. Platform Engineering Team - To further streamline microservices implementation, establishing a Platform Engineering Team is essential. This specialized group within the organization is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing internal platforms that provide shared tools, services, and infrastructure. These platforms are designed to support development and operations teams by removing the complexities of managing infrastructure, allowing them to focus on delivering business-specific functionality. The Platform Engineering Team ensures the efficient operation of the microservices ecosystem by offering standardized tools, processes, and infrastructure.
Additionally, the team develops reusable resources such as pre-configured CI/CD pipelines, standardized logging frameworks, and monitoring solutions. These assets simplify the onboarding process for service teams, promote consistency across microservices, and eliminate redundant efforts. By centralizing these responsibilities, the Platform Engineering Team accelerates development, enhances reliability, and ensures that individual teams can focus on delivering innovative business solutions.
5. Guilds - Guild is a cross-functional, voluntary group of individuals across different teams who share common interests or expertise (e.g., DevOps, security, observability). Guilds focus on fostering collaboration, sharing knowledge, and setting best practices across the organization. By sharing lessons learned, they help prevent other teams from repeating mistakes or falling into pitfalls they have already encountered. This approach creates communities focused on specific technologies or practices, enabling teams to collaborate and share insights while encouraging standardization without imposing rigid rules. For example, you could establish a "CP4I Guild" where the APIC team can learn from the ACE team’s approaches to integration patterns, error handling, and performance tuning, discovering methods to enhance their API management practices based on ACE’s successes. Similarly, the ACE team might benefit from the APIC team’s strategies for ensuring secure and scalable API exposure. Within this guild, teams can exchange tips and techniques on optimizing these capabilities for their unique services, helping to improve overall efficiency and foster continuous learning across the organization. This collaborative structure supports both innovation and consistency, enabling teams to build on each other’s successes.
6. Evolution of Developer responsibilities – In the pre-cloud days, developers had to manage various aspects of each technology, including installation, resource allocation, scaling, security, artifact creation, deployment, and monitoring. This required specialized teams for each technology. With the advent of cloud platforms, many of these concerns are standardized, allowing developers to focus on delivering business results by creating artifacts. Tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio manage scaling, high availability, and deployment, while standardized CLIs, APIs, and file-based deployment simplify the process. The gray area now represents concerns that are still important but no longer require constant developer attention.
7. Redefining Roles in Cloud native environments – As organizations adopt more automated and cloud-native approaches, the roles of traditional IT teams evolve to align with the principles of agility, scalability, and reliability. Two key roles—Infrastructure Specialists and Operations Teams—undergo significant changes, moving away from manual, reactive processes toward proactive and automation-driven responsibilities.
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· Infrastructure Specialists: The focus shifts from hands-on system building to designing reusable templates and images. These templates represent predefined configurations for virtual machines, containers, or infrastructure stacks.
· Operations Teams: Transitioning to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles involves shifting the focus to proactive automation and continuous improvement, with the goal of enhancing system reliability. In the SRE model, operations teams take on a development-oriented approach, addressing operational challenges as engineering problems that can be solved through coding and automation.
Upskilling Vs Creating New Roles
Upskilling and creating new roles are both vital strategies for organizational growth and adaptability, each serving distinct and complementary purposes. Ultimately, the decision to upskill or create new roles depends on an organization's existing workforce, goals, and the pace of industry change. For companies with a strong, adaptable team, upskilling may be the most efficient path forward. However, in cases where the organization is undergoing rapid growth, exploring new markets, or facing challenges requiring highly specialized expertise, creating new roles may be the better option. A strategic blend of both approaches ensures that organizations remain competitive, agile, and well-equipped to tackle future demands.
At IBM, we offer a range of exceptional learning opportunities designed to help customers acquire essential skills across various technologies. These learning programs cater to different levels of expertise and are available through multiple formats to suit diverse learning preferences. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced professional, our training resources are tailored to meet your needs.
Red Hat OpenShift platform - When deploying Red Hat OpenShift, a comprehensive, container orchestration platform based on Kubernetes, a multidisciplinary team is required that covers various aspects of infrastructure, application development, and operations. You can add RHOS Administrator to start with. To effectively deploy and manage Red Hat OpenShift Platform, the Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280K) certification can significantly enhance skills and knowledge. This is the foundational certification for anyone involved in deploying and managing OpenShift.
When deploying Red Hat OpenShift, a comprehensive container orchestration platform built on Kubernetes, a multidisciplinary team is essential to address various aspects of infrastructure, application development, and operations. It’s crucial to have a RHOS Administrator as part of the team to manage the platform effectively. To ensure the successful deployment and ongoing management of Red Hat OpenShift, obtaining the Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280K) certification is highly beneficial. This foundational certification equips individuals with the skills and knowledge required to deploy, configure, and manage OpenShift environments, making it an ideal starting point for anyone involved in OpenShift administration. It validates your ability to:
· Install and configure OpenShift clusters.
· Manage users, roles, and permissions.
· Configure networking and storage.
· Deploy and manage applications.
· Troubleshoot and maintain the OpenShift environment.
While EX280K covers core aspects of each phase, it may not provide the in-depth knowledge required for advanced architectural decisions or complex application deployments, which are more relevant at later stages. To further enhance your teams’ skills and expertise, consider pursuing complementary certifications such as the Red Hat Certified OpenShift Application Developer exam (EX288) or Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).
Security responsibilities should ideally remain within the purview of the existing security team. Leveraging tools like Advanced Cluster Security (ACS) and providing comprehensive training can effectively equip the security team with the necessary knowledge and skills to secure the OpenShift environment. Furthermore, if the security team utilizes existing tools that are already compatible with OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), integrating OCP into their security portfolio should generally be a relatively smooth process.
Well, these certifications don’t need to be completed all at once. Rather than viewing them as a short-term requirement, consider them a strategic, long-term investment. It’s more about a gradual progression in upskilling, focusing on the most critical certifications first, and then expanding to other areas over time.
Agile Integration Platform - IBM CP4I is a robust, enterprise-grade integration platform that allows businesses to connect applications, data, and systems across different environments, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It provides a unified platform for managing all aspects of integration, including API management, application integration, messaging, and event streaming. To deploy and maintain IBM CP4I effectively, a cross-functional team with a wide range of expertise is essential. This team should possess diverse skills across infrastructure setup, cloud platform integration, application development, integration management, security, and ongoing operational support to ensure a smooth and scalable deployment. Undermentioned are the key roles typically needed for deploying CP4I successfully-
1. CP4I Administrator – The CP4I Admin is responsible for overseeing the components of IBM CP4I. This administrator can perform the intermediate to advanced tasks related to daily management and operation, security, performance, configuration of enhancements (including fix packs and patches), customization and/or problem determination.
The role of a CP4I Admin can be filled by a single individual or a team with specialized expertise in different aspects of the Integration platform. In my experience, customers often start by deploying one capability, such as MQ, and then expand to others like ACE or APIC based on their use case. We advise customers to build expertise in each of these areas to fully leverage and manage the complete range of CP4I functionalities with responsibilities that include:
· Planning and Installation - Understand system requirements and cloud-based installation specifics. Install and configure the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration cluster, including Identity and Access Management. Complete post-installation activities and manage the uninstallation process.
· Configuration - Deploy and configure various CP4I capabilities, including API Connect, App Connect, DataPower, MQ, and Aspera, based on your requirements. Also, set up and configure any necessary add-on capabilities.
· Platform Administration - Administer Cloud Pak foundational services, perform platform upgrades, and build CI/CD pipelines for Cloud Pak for Integration using OpenShift Pipelines and GitOps.
· Product Capabilities, Licensing, and Governance - Explore the capabilities of Cloud Pak for Integration, understand its licensing mechanisms, and configure the license service and license service reporter effectively.
· Product Administration and Troubleshooting- Upgrade CP4I capabilities, foundational services, and OpenShift components. Understand product-specific scaling and use platform tracing to diagnose application issues. Leverage logging for troubleshooting, and address problems with Cloud Pak for Integration operators and command-line tools.
You can explore more about CP4I admin, from IBM Learning that covers all aspects of this role - https://www.ibm.com/training/certification/ibm-certified-administrator-cloud-pak-for-integration-v20212-C0005101
2. 2. CP4I Solution Architect - Solution Architect on IBM CP4I is a person who can design, plan, and create an architecture with CP4I capabilities. This architect can design a solution that meets the multi-style modern agile integration requirements across a hybrid cloud that help enterprises through their digital transformation journey with their responsibilities as:
· CP4I Expertise: Master diverse use cases and scenarios for IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) to leverage its features effectively. Understand entitlements and subscriptions to optimize utilization and deployment.
· Container Platform Architecture: Knowledge of supported platforms and public cloud environments for IBM CP4I on Red Hat OpenShift. Expertise in high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and backup strategies.
· Planning, Scaling, and Resiliency: Plan system requirements for IBM Cloud Pak for Integration installations, design scalable and highly available solutions, and develop robust disaster recovery plans.
· Modernize Integrations: Distinguish between traditional and agile integration architectures. Design solutions using modern integration reference architectures, select appropriate architectures based on needs, and ensure secure Cloud Native solutions.
· Product Capabilities and Use Cases: Demonstrate expertise in automation assets, application integration, API creation, security, event-driven interactions, messaging capabilities, high-speed data transfer, and secure gateways.
· Storage Considerations: Understand OpenShift's storage architecture, identify storage needs for each CP4I capability, and be knowledgeable about public cloud storage solutions and secure gateways.
· Foundation Services: Familiarize yourself with IBM Cloud Pak foundational services and Automation foundation, including Identity and Access Control Management, and the monitoring capabilities they offer.
· Observability: Leverage IBM Cloud Pak for Integration’s logging and monitoring capabilities and use the Operations Dashboard for effective observability.
· DevOps: Understand CI/CD toolchain components and modern DevOps practices. Deploy CP4I capabilities using CI/CD tools and manage IBM Cloud Pak for Integration clusters with supported CLI tools.
You can refer to this link for more information - https://www.ibm.com/training/certification/ibm-certified-solution-architect-cloud-pak-for-integration-v20214-C9003800
3. IBM App Connect Enterprise Administrator – IBM ACE Administrator plays a pivotal role in configuring, securing, deploying, and maintaining the IBM App Connect Enterprise platform to ensure smooth, secure, and efficient integration across enterprise systems responsible for:
· Understanding Core Concepts and Architecture - An ACE administrator must have a deep understanding of the underlying architecture and core concepts of IBM App Connect Enterprise, enabling them to effectively design and manage integration solutions.
· Managing Integration Nodes and Servers - They are responsible for configuring, monitoring, and maintaining integration nodes and servers, ensuring that all components work cohesively.
· Using the Message Flow Editor - ACE admins must be proficient in using the Message Flow editor to examine message flow components and properties, ensuring that message flows are optimized and functional.
· Implementing Secure Communication - Administrators are tasked with implementing secure communication protocols and authentication mechanisms, ensuring the security of data exchanged across systems.
· Deploying Integration Resources - Effective deployment of integration resources is a key responsibility, achieved through command-line tools and the IBM App Connect Enterprise web user interface.
· Configuration and Administration via Command-Line Interfaces - Admins must be skilled in configuring and administering IBM App Connect Enterprise using command-line interfaces for efficient system management.
· Managing Runtime Components - Administrators ensure the smooth operation of runtime components like integration nodes and servers, managing the lifecycle and performance of these elements.
· Securing Administration Tasks - Implementing strong security measures to control access to resources is a key responsibility, including configuring user authentication and ensuring that only authorized users can perform administrative tasks.
· Implementing Backup and Recovery - ACE administrators must configure backup and recovery procedures to safeguard configurations and data, ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery.
· Managing Message Flows and Integration Services - Administrators are responsible for configuring, managing, and maintaining message flows and integration services, ensuring that data integration tasks run smoothly.
· Backup and Restoration - They must manage the backup and restoration of integration nodes and their configurations, ensuring that critical data is protected and can be restored in case of failure.
You can refer to this link for more information : https://www.ibm.com/training/learning-path/ibm-app-connect-enterprise-v12-551
4. App Connect Enterprise (ACE) Developer – The ACE Developer is responsible for creating, testing, deploying, troubleshooting, and supporting integration applications that are platform-independent. Their key responsibilities include:
· Develop IBM App Connect Toolkit Solutions - An ACE Developer designs and develops robust integration solutions using the ACE toolkit, leveraging various message flows, built-in nodes, and transformation options, including DFDL modeling.
· Develop IBM App Connect Designer Solutions - Designs and develops integrations using App Connect Designer and Toolkit, configures connectors, implements data mapping and transformation, builds message models, and performs unit testing.
· Application Configuration - Create and configure policies, determine data persistency strategies, promote environment variables, and understand the concepts of libraries
· Extend App Connect Enterprise - Understand external connectivity capabilities and develop user defined extensions.
· Install and Configure - Install and configure App Connect Development environment, understanding the difference between integration nodes and servers, and utilizing container-based installations for greater flexibility and scalability.
· Security - Identify security considerations for message flows and develop security measures.
· Solution Assembly, Configuration & Deployment - Demonstrate expertise in optimization, comparing container-based deployment styles, and understanding the mechanisms for providing BAR files to integration servers or runtimes. Additionally, generate the necessary deployment artifacts for efficient integration.
· Troubleshooting and Tuning - Determine effective troubleshooting methods for integration applications and understand the types of application logs generated to diagnose and resolve issues.
BM offers specialized courses tailored for experienced integration specialists and senior-level developers with a background in application development and messaging middleware. These courses are designed to equip professionals with the skills needed to become proficient IBM App Connect Enterprise Developers. You can refer to this link for more information:
https://www.ibm.com/training/course/ibm-app-connect-enterprise-12-application-development-i-WM686G
5. IBM APIC Administrator - IBM API Connect is a full lifecycle API management solution that uses an intuitive experience to help consistently create, manage, secure, socialize and monetize APIs, which promotes digital transformation on premises and across clouds. APIC encompasses various personas, each addressing different aspects of API lifecycle management. Each persona plays a vital role in the effective implementation and management of APIs, ensuring a comprehensive and successful API management strategy with IBM API Connect.
These personas may not align perfectly with every organization's structure or internal roles. Moreover, individuals within an organization might assume multiple personas and may not focus exclusively on one role. Nonetheless, these personas provide valuable insight into the various tasks and responsibilities associated with different aspects of API Connect.
API Developer: Manages the development of APIs within the organization. Their primary focus is to understand the data, services, and information required from an API, and then design and build the API accordingly. The API Developer is responsible for deploying the API through various stages, including testing, staging, and production environments.
API Lifecycle Manager: Leads the line of business and collaborates with team members like Shavon to define API requirements. This role involves reviewing and approving new APIs or updates to existing APIs before they are released into production environments.
Provider Organizer: Coordinates the delivery of APIs across multiple lines of business and development teams. Ensures that each group has the necessary resources, and that APIs are published to the appropriate environments.
Cloud Manager: Manages IT administration within the organization, overseeing the deployment and configuration of API Connect software and cloud environments. Provides the necessary access and resources for initiating and supporting API initiatives.
Community Manager: Focuses on the success of application developers within the organization. Works to make the API portal user-friendly and manages API consumer groups to ensure effective engagement and support.
Application Developer: Responsible for creating new applications and web services. Uses APIs to build these solutions by navigating the API Developer Portal to register applications and access the required APIs.
Here are several valuable learning courses offered by IBM in the integration and API management space:
6. IBM MQ Administrator - IBM MQ Administrator is responsible for the deployment, configuration, and ongoing management of the IBM MQ environment, ensuring its reliability, security, and performance while troubleshooting and maintaining optimal system operation. Here is the list of responsibilities:
· Deployment and Configuration - The administrator is responsible for understanding and implementing various IBM MQ deployment options, ensuring that the messaging system is set up according to the organization’s needs. This involves configuring and managing queue managers, queues, and channels to enable communication across the MQ network.
· Queue Manager Cluster Administration - Administrators must define and administer queue manager clusters, ensuring that multiple MQ servers work together efficiently and provide high availability for messaging services.
· MQ Client Connections - They configure MQ client connections to a queue manager, ensuring that remote applications can reliably connect to the messaging system.
· JMS Administration - The administrator manages Java Message Service (JMS) configurations within IBM MQ, allowing applications to use JMS for messaging within the MQ system.
· Testing and Troubleshooting - IBM MQ administrators use sample programs and utilities to test the MQ network and troubleshoot issues that may arise. They also use a variety of IBM MQ troubleshooting tools to diagnose and resolve problems within the system.
· Queue Manager Restart and Recovery - Administrators implement basic queue manager restart and recovery procedures to ensure system resilience and minimize downtime in case of failure.
· Security Management - Managing the security of the MQ environment is a critical responsibility. The administrator must configure and enforce access controls, ensuring that only authorized users and applications can access MQ resources.
· Performance Monitoring - The administrator regularly monitors the activities and performance of the IBM MQ system, ensuring that messaging services run efficiently and that any potential bottlenecks or performance issues are addressed proactively.
Refer to this link for more information: https://www.ibm.com/training/course/ibm-mq-v91-system-administration-ZM156G
7. 7. IBM MQ Developer - An IBM MQ Developer plays a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining messaging systems to ensure reliable communication between distributed applications. Key responsibilities include:
· Understanding and Configuring IBM MQ Components - Develop expertise in key IBM MQ components, such as queue managers, queues, topics, and channels, and understand their role in message processing. Configure both static and dynamic connections, including the Client Channel Definition Table (CCDT), to establish secure and efficient communication between applications and queue managers.
· Optimizing Design and Development Choices - Analyze the impact of design and development choices, including messaging styles like point-to-point and publish/subscribe, to optimize performance and scalability in diverse application environments.
· Programming with Message Queue Interfaces - Use message queue interface calls, structures, and data types to create robust applications. Develop programs to manage message flow, including placing, browsing, and removing messages from queues. Implement message sequencing and queue manager affinities, ensuring accurate transaction control through commit and rollback mechanisms.
· Data Conversion and Cross-Platform Compatibility - Handle data conversion across different platforms to ensure seamless communication between heterogeneous systems. Implement mechanisms to maintain data integrity and compatibility in diverse operating environments.
· Security and Connectivity - Configure secure connectivity between MQ applications and queue managers, ensuring encrypted communication and compliance with organizational security policies.
· Common Queue Attributes and Configuration - Identify and control common queue attributes in applications, optimizing message storage, delivery, and persistence for specific use cases.
Here is the links to list of trainings provided by IBM Learning which can be leveraged by customers. You can check on the certification and learning path on this link: https://www.ibm.com/training/collection/ibm-mq-92-360
https://www.ibm.com/training/course/ibm-mq-v9-application-development-windows-labs-ZM513G
The document outlines the roles and skills necessary for deploying IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) emphasizing the importance of upskilling and role creation for each capability. It highlights tailored certifications and training paths that customers can pursue to enhance their expertise. The roles span areas such as platform management, application development, integration, and security, ensuring a well-rounded skill set for successful CP4I deployment and operation.