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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

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...
over 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

The ability to display the certificates available in a queue manager's cached certificate repository.

Currently, there does not seem to be a way to display the certificate cache's contents available to a running queue manager on z/os systems. The keyring is stored in the security manager ex: RACF and certificates there can be easily managed but be...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

CERTLABL for auto-defined cluster sender channels

Certificate Authorities will be enforcing in the near future that the EKU extension of X509 certificates are separated between client side and server side certificates. There is a need in IBM MQ to be able to have both a client and server certific...
11 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

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 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 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 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 5 Not under consideration

MQ z/OS better visibility into Dispatcher/Channel CPU consumption

We can see how much CPU the Dispatchers use, and how many channels are using them, but not which channels are using them an how much CPU is used by channel. Channels are associated with a dispatcher for their lifetime, so it should be possible to ...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

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 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Automatic removal of poison messages to backout queue

Currently IBM MQ provides options of BOQNAME in a local queue so that client can leverage it to dump poison messages however the burden lies at client side to move such messages and if there is an existing client which never used this option then ...
almost 8 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Not under consideration

Provide a message in mqweb server that shows the Liberty code level

Although there are messages that externalize the level of the mqweb server code executed, there is not a message that provides the level of WebSphere Liberty like provided by the output of the /mq_install_path/web/bin/productInfo version --verbose...
7 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Under review

MQ Wildcard certificate support

We are currently running MQ as part of our CP4i bundle, since the new version 2023.4 IBM has decided to use Keycloak to authenticate all products, problem is that MQ is the only package that doesn't support Wildcard certificates, we had cases TS01...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration