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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

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Be able to change Persistence on the Queue level.

Lately, with the streaming queues feature, we notice that we need persistence on the main queue (that is, where the business messages are processed), but on the streaming (copy) queue not only is not needed but also adds performance and storage pr...
8 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Under review

Automatically rebuild XCF structure for QSG QMGR

If a QSG is moved to a recovery site, not all parts of the primary site are moved. If the couple data sets are missing, the recovered z/OS don't have any XCF structure in place. A DB2 data sharing group will start without any problems, automatical...
26 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration

Evenly Distribution of Connections to available QMGRs in a LPAR

As part of an IBM recommendation, we are implementing a second Queue Manager in each CICS LPAR of our Production environment. In our tests, in an test environment with more than one QMGR is available, we have observed that the connections are NOT ...
about 2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Under review

Non-Disruptive Solution for Load Balancing Queue Managers After Recycling

At Banco do Brasil, we have a Queue Sharing Group (QSG) with 6 Queue Managers (QMs), where each QM runs on a separate Logical Partition (LPAR). Load distribution between these QMs is done through a shared listener associated with a Virtual IP Addr...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Under review

Add Red Hat Ansible support for the MQ Appliance

Automate repetitive tasks etc. Our organization relies heavily on Ansible for automation.
5 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Submitted

Multi-instance MQ be able of switchover without intervention after a failover

Problema: having 2 mq multi-instances, one as primary and the other as secondary and running in standby mode. When the primary MQ fails, the other one takes over as primary. However, the previous one goes to the status of “running elsewhere” and n...
5 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

STOP CONN (stop a connection) for IBM MQ for z/OS

The stop of a SVRCONN Channel has no impact on current connections and the commands STOP LISTENER, STOP CHINIT or VARY TCPIP,,DROP affect many or all applications connected. So to solve situations like hanging TCP/IP Sessions which lead to Long ru...
11 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

stand-alone MQ Web Server support for local_os_registry mode

The stand-alone MQ Web Server does not support authentication in ‘local_os_registry’ mode. This is a major limitation of the product (not documented in the KC). As part of the deployment of a large configuration of Queue Managers, we want to use M...
14 days ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Add support for Alias CipherSpecs in MQIPT

Hello, since 9.2 IBM MQ support Alias CipherSpecs/CipherSuites, that is a keyword such as ANY_TLS13_OR_HIGHER for which the queue manager and the client will negotiate the best available CipherSpec/CipherSuite. This saves effort in constantly upda...
2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for OpenTelemetry Metrics to IBM MQ

The IBM MQ metrics samples that are available on GitHub here, https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-metric-samples/tree/master/cmd/mq_otel provide a sample for collecting metrics from IBM MQ and exporting them to the OpenTelemetry Collector. The Ope...
9 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Future consideration