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Status Under review
Workspace Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 23, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Event Endpoint Management Add Prefix / Pattern-Based ACL Authorization along with mtls

We are requesting a scalable authorization model in EEM that supports prefix-based, wildcard-based, or pattern-based ACLs, similar to native Kafka ACL behavior.

Current Behavior

EEM relies primarily on a publish/subscribe object model per alias topic. This creates heavy object sprawl and operational overhead when many topics follow predictable naming patterns.

Problem / Business Impact

This creates a significant scaling problem in enterprise Kafka estates:

  • many applications need access to a family of topics
  • onboarding each topic individually is time-consuming
  • it introduces operational friction and confusion
  • it makes CI/CD and policy-as-code difficult
  • it does not align with common Kafka authorization patterns

Requested Enhancement

Add support for authorization by:

  • topic prefix
  • wildcard
  • regex/pattern
  • direction = consume / produce / both

Example Use Cases

  • payments.*
  • RBKF.COMMOD.*
  • orders.dev.*

Expected Outcome

Administrators should be able to grant access at the topic family/pattern level instead of creating and publishing many individual alias topic objects

Needed By Month

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