Licensing and API references for the IBM MQ Operator

IBM® MQ provides a Kubernetes Operator, which you can deploy on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform and, from IBM MQ Operator 3.9.0, Amazon EKS. The v1beta1 API can be used to create and manage queue manager resources.

mq.ibm.com/v1beta1: Current license versions

The spec.license.license field must contain the license identifier for the license you are accepting. Valid values are as follows:

Table 1. Valid values for the `spec.license.license` field
Value of `spec.license.license`	Value of `spec.license.use`	License information	Applicable IBM MQ versions
`L-VEMB-RABZSN`	`Production` or `NonProduction`	IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration 16.2.0	10.0.0
`L-UHEB-WGGTYF`	`Production` or `NonProduction`	IBM Cloud Pak for Integration Limited Edition 16.2.0	10.0.0
`L-CXDB-XTZ9J8`	`Production`	IBM MQ Advanced 10.0	10.0.0
`L-UMVX-XYNRAD`	`NonProduction`	IBM MQ Advanced for Non-Production Environment 10.0	10.0.0
`L-GWLM-M6WVZU`	`Development`	IBM MQ Advanced for Developers (Non-Warranted) 10.0	10.0.0
`L-MKDD-7KHY2Q`	`Production` or `NonProduction`	IBM MQ 10.0 and IBM MQ for Non-Production Environment 10.0	10.0.0

Note that the license version is specified, which is not always the same as the version of IBM MQ.

You can use the spec.license.additionalLicenses field to configure add-on licenses to use in combination with your selected spec.license.license value. Valid spec.license.additionalLicenses values are as follows:

Table 2. Valid values for the `spec.license.additionalLicenses` field
Value of `spec.license.additionalLicenses`	Value of `spec.license.use`	License information	Applicable IBM MQ versions
`L-KFCR-53UGK9`	`Production` or `NonProduction`	IBM MQ Native HA and Cross-Region Replication Add-On 10.0 and IBM MQ Native HA and Cross-Region Replication Add-On for Non-Production Environment 10.0	10.0.0
`L-MKDD-7KHY2Q`	`Production` or `NonProduction`	IBM MQ 10.0 and IBM MQ for Non-Production Environment 10.0	10.0.0

Valid combinations of the spec.license.license and spec.license.additionalLicenses fields are as follows:

Table 3. Valid combinations of values for the `spec.license.license` and `spec.license.additionalLicenses` fields
Value of `spec.license.license`	Value of `spec.license.additionalLicenses`	Value of `spec.license.use`	Applicable IBM MQ versions
`L-MKDD-7KHY2Q`	`L-KFCR-53UGK9`	`Production` or `NonProduction`	10.0.0
`L-VEMB-RABZSN`	`L-MKDD-7KHY2Q`	`Production` or `NonProduction`	10.0.0
`L-UHEB-WGGTYF`	`L-MKDD-7KHY2Q`	`Production` or `NonProduction`	10.0.0

mq.ibm.com/v1beta1: Older license versions

See Older license versions in the IBM MQ 9.4 documentation.