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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

Add IGNSTATE to CHLAUTH Rules

Please add the ability to specify IGNSTATE(YES) on a SET CHLAUTH ACTION(REMOVE) command. This would allow us to more easily write idempotent scripts for cleaning up our queue managers. Most every other object type has IGNSTATE(YES) as an option wh...
9 months 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...
about 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Functionality already exists

Standalone MQ Web Server comes for x86 and zos. Provision for debian/alpine OS

Like IBM MQ server install is available for other OS, standalone IBM MQ Web Server is limited. Can the team provide install option for other OS example search in fix central - https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm%7EWeb...
6 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Submitted

Creation date and time for some IBM MQ objects

Currently we noticed alias queues, remote queues, channels, services, listeners, topics, subscriptions don't have attributes for creation date and time so we are not able to check when these objects were created. And there must be a reason. And is...
almost 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

provide additional security to the cluster queues when using shared Qmgrs to send msgs to downstream qmgrs

Whats missing?? With existing MQ product version 7 to 9.3 - when comes to Cluster design there is no control over shared applications using the same qmgr(shared qmgr) and sending msgs to downstream applications. With the MQ Cluster by design we se...
over 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 6 Functionality already exists

Enhance interactive runmqsc shell with dynamic object name completion and context aware grammar parsing

Improve the interactive runmqsc command line interface by providing context aware keyword autocomplete and dynamic tab completion of active queue manager object names across all distributed platforms. Business Problem / Use Case The interactive ru...
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Provide a native, cross platform backup and restore utility for IBM MQ Queue Managers (crtmqbackup and rstmqbackup)

Introduce an official, supported control command utility pair to standardize and automate point in time backup and restoration of IBM MQ queue manager configurations, authorities, and operational state across distributed platforms. Business Proble...
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Reasonable default TCP read timeout for IBM MQ Java

Currently on Linux, my understanding is that IBM MQ Java applications runs with a default TCP read timeout of unlimited. This can lead to certain scenarios where a Java IBM MQ thread can hang indefinitely on a TCP socket read. The current workarou...
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

MQ z/OS SMF data should contain client version info

SMF data (115/116) should contain the client version of the connecting client. The SVRCONN client version is currently available (RVERSION) when issuing the MQ z/OS command DISPLAY CHSTATUS.
over 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 5 Not under consideration

The MQ Web Console should provide embedded command line console access to the container

I want to be able to easily run mq commands from the queue manager cli without having to fumble around with kubectl exec commands or other various methods. I've attached a quick copy and paste image of the kind of embedded console I'm talking abou...
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review