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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

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MQ Explorer & Passphrase

It seems that IBM MQ Explorer (at least the v9.4.1 we used) does not support Passphrase. Since, for security reasons, more and more systems are implementing this mechanism, I think it is a good idea to support it from the MQ Explorer as well.
4 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 4 Under review

define active log as Vsam Extended

similarly to what is already possible on the DB2 product, it would be very useful define Active Log MQ larger than the current 4GB, defining them as VSAM EXTENDED. In our Production environment, a 4Gb Active Log lasts 2/3 minutes at most and this ...
8 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Enable setmqweb to work with non UTF-8 files

Our webuser.xml is (EBCDIC readable) coded in IBM-273 according to our maintenance strategy. While MQWEB has no problem with it, any try to change it via setmqweb fails because setmqweb works only with UTF-8 files. Please enable setmqweb to proces...
8 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

MQ Console - Authentication to a remote Queue Manager

With MQ Console, when configuring a remote Queue Manager, you can specify the user and password for logging in. This is even mandatory if the remote Queue Manager requires user/password authentication. This poses a number of problems: - it's impos...
13 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Enable "sticky" function to tie the JMSXGroupID to a single consumer

We know MQ Supports MSXGroupID, but doesnt have option of "sticky" function to tie the JMSXGroupID to a single consumer. Active MQ has this, and have noticed many companies that are using IBM MQ need this http://activemq.apache.org/message-groups....
14 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

provide "write to S3 storage" support for MQ MFT

We have a couple of customer who would like to use MQ MFT to transfer data between onprem and cloud systems. In the cloud world the customers are typically using S3 object storage - to exchange data / files between system (containers). Unfortunate...
23 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Under review

MQ .NET Managed client - Use most secure common negotiated CipherSpec by default

When I try to use the alias Ciphers (ANY_TLS12_OR_HIGHER) which are very popular now, it is silently ignored and instead it is defaulting to insecure TLS 1.0 by default. Can you change IBM MQ.NET managed client in this way : - Use most secure Ciph...
30 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Publish com.ibm.mq.jakarta.connector.jar in Maven Central

The RAR published in mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.ibm.mq/wmq.jakarta.jmsra/9.4.2.0 contains a com.ibm.mq.jakarta.connector.jar that isn't published in Maven Central. Some integrations (like Quarkus support for IBM MQ) depend on the Resource adap...
about 1 month ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Under review

Support storing CCDT in DNS TXT Records apart from File, HTTP, HTTPS

IBM® MQ supports retrieving a CCDT from a file, ftp, or http URL. From IBM MQ 9.4.1, https (HTTP over TLS) URLs are also supported. It would be beneficial for MQ clients to retrieve a CCDT from DNS TXT records. By giving a DNS, such as <qmgrNam...
about 1 month ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Make it simpler to turn on SMF data collection

MQ for z/OS Idea – Make it easier to turn on data collection For years it has been traditionally difficult to turn on the various levels of SMF data gathering. For example, when writing our data collection for MQ on z/OS there are 4 pages of instr...
about 1 month ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Under review