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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

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Avoid completing the reallocation process in case all sender channels are not running, to decrease CPU consumption

Refer to Case TS014865530 - High CPU consumption during MQ Message Reallocation As per explanations in the Case, the cluster message reallocation process is made of 2 steps that scans the transmission queue: the first one checks whether there are ...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

provide early code update required to be on all queue sharing systems "earlier", via service stream for current release rather than having to order the next release to obtain

It would benefit accounts with shared mq queues to ease upgrades. Today I have to order CBPDO ahead of my z/OS PSI (for 3R1 for instance) to obtain the early code to deploy it through all sysplexes prior to the MQ upgrades that will occur with my ...
2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Publish the MQ Statistics and MQ Accounting SMF data in addition to creating the SMF Records

IBM MQ on distributed publishes the statistics and accounting data, allowing multiple consumers of the data. We would like that same capability for z/OS, providing the capability for more immediate consumption and multiple consumers. As an alterna...
about 6 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

MQ Should Automatically Rebuild XCF Entries!

This idea is a re-hashing of [MESNS-I-205] which was previously declined. It is unreasonable that MQ for z/OS does not automatically handle rebuilding XCF entries as part of QSG recovery. If for any reason, the entries go missing (like during alte...
almost 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Not under consideration

Remotely managing of MQ instances

Given the ever increasing risk and controls driven environment, we would like a programmatic way to manage mq instances from external APIs and avoid humans logging into OS shell and running manual commands especially in container context. Some exa...
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Configurable number of RDQM nodes

At the moment we are running MQ RDQM HA on 3 nodes. The documented process for an outageless upgrade or a rebuild is to suspend a node at which point the RDQM cluster is running on just 2 nodes which is quorum. If during the rebuild of the 3rd nod...
almost 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

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...
5 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Future consideration

Adding Windows "Group Managed Service Accounts" support to MQ

In our environment we have user dedicated for IBM MQ service runnig.Our Security Standards requires periodical changing password for that user. The password should be unknow by administrator. Windows gMSA will resolve all problems with this issue ...
almost 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Mainframe MQ product adopting OpenTelemetry

What is IBM's plan to adopt OpenTelemetry standard for the Mainframe Messaging feature? WAS Liberty could be utilised to expose Metrics, Logs, Tracing. This is on top the current approach exposing key metrics through the native SMF dataset.
almost 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Allow reconfiguration / tuning of Queue Manager LogFilePages after initial Queue Manager create

Update MQ to support LogFilePages changes so that a Queue Manager recreation is not required. This would enable (simpler) tuning / retuning, supporting a culture of experimentation and allowing Customers to adapt their configurations over-time. ...
about 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 5 Not under consideration