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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

Allow to Extend RDQM filesystem without recreate

Currently, with IBM MQ’s HA or DR Replicated Data Queue Manager (RDQM), the filesystem size allocated at queue manager creation is fixed and cannot be dynamically expanded—only backup, delete, recreate, and restore logs /configs are permitted (Res...
11 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

MQ FDC limits and housekeeping logic

Bank would like to be able to set a limits on FDC, so they would not take up all available space and thus makes whole MQ manager unresponsive. Currently there is no any functionality in MQ, which manage the "expiry", archiving or deletion of FDCs....
almost 7 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Provide an option to decouple IBM MQ on Unix/Linux from the mqm user and mqm group and setuid/setgid binaries

IBM MQ v9.2 provides a unzippable version of MQ that no longer requires the mqm user and mqm group or setuid/setgid binaries. This unzippable install is only supported on containers and is also only being maintained in the CD release. Please provi...
over 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Distinguish between READ, UPDATE and ALTER for Utility CSQ5PQSG

Enhanced security because not in all cases ALTER access is necessary but the utility always requires ALTER. VERIFY should also work with READ access because it does not update anything.
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Request to implement CCSID data conversion for thai language on MQ multiple platform , which currently MQ by design does not supported to convert CCSID 838 to CCSID 819 directly regarding case TS011625274

Client : Siam Commercial Bank PCL (SCB), one of the latest bank in Thailand Background and Issue details Currently, MQ are running on multiple platforms at SCB Bank such as MQ on (Linux, AIX , mainframe) and IIB running on AIX platform and each pl...
over 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Handle expired partner certificates better

Inbound connections which present an expired SSL certificate are (correctly) refused by the queue manager. However, there is still an overhead on the queue manager side in accepting, assessing and then rejecting that connection attempt. Further, a...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Display TIOT usage of MQ Address Space

Recently, we had a problem when trying to add a new member to our Queue Sharing Group. The problem was that the SMDSCONN to this new member started with ALLOCFAIL error. The problem was caused by a full TIOT in the MQ MSTR address space. The solut...
almost 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Expose some internal processes to SMF

MQ has traditionally not exposed some internal processes to SMF data. This can mean there are processes acting on behalf of applications that those of us relying on observability via SMF cannot 'see.' For example, a customer heavily using administ...
12 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Enhancements needed for MQ Web Console to rule out third party administration tools

We are planning to move away from MQExplorer and other third party administration tools and switch to MQ Web Console as the go-to utility, however most of the basic functionalities which we use on our day to day basis do not exist in the MQ Consol...
about 6 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 6 Future consideration

API sample for equivalent Sample C program

MQ when installed with samp binary, creates multiple samples for different programing languages. Similar to that, now MQ supports REST; can the team add 2 folders Administration and Messaging for all the sample C programs IBM shops with. it can be...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration