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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

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Add passphrase support to all MQ interfaces

Currently only the CONNAUTH interface supports passwords/passphrases. Request all login interfaces to support both 8 character passwords and 9-100 character passphrases for login to services.
almost 6 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Run IBM MQ control commands over HTTPS

As our highly regulated firm moves to running its applications in containers a non negotiable policy decision was made to remove SSH access to containers. This means we cannot easily move MQ to containers as we have no way to run the MQ control co...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Release Virtual Image of MQ Appliance

I've spoken with several customers lately that use virtual DataPower images for all of their development, test and Q/A environments. Not having a virtual image of the MQ Appliance available is keeping them from considering purchases due to the fac...
about 9 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration

Please have the GCM Cipher Key Resets managed server side in TLS1.2

For governance to control the risk , this will benefit all clients which current don't support doing it (Java/JMS/.NT..etc). It should be configurable via MQ that if a certain size is exchanged without a TLS key reset done by the client then the s...
5 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Add TLS1.2 Cipher - ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305(IANA: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256)

All ciphers available in MQ for TLS 1.2 are using only two modes , GCM (with restrictions) and CBC which has been target to many vulnerabilities. It's of much use for older applications that are not yet ready for TLS1.3 to have a secure stable opt...
5 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

XMS .NET create session needs connection pool for performance

XMS .NET API does not have a connection pool when client uses CreateConnectionFactory() and CreateConnection().A connection pool can increase client performance.
over 6 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Tool/process to detect high CPU usage channels on ZoS.

We have had instances when the CHINIT process was experiencing high CPU. There is no easy way to determine which specific channel that is running under the CHINIT is causing the high CPU usage. When we run into these conditions we have to do a dee...
over 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Generate QMGR events for buffers water marks

Qmgr builds qmgr events based on high and low watermarks like queue depth high/low.Thresholds may be fix or parameter.
about 10 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Future consideration

CCSID 1208 is not convertible by MQ on z/OS and other Unix based OS systems

We are consumer of outside inbound MQ messages that have CCSID of 1208 on z/OS. We see the messages but had to dump MQ logs in order to see the details of the CCSID setting in the MQMD. This took a lot of digging through logs for persistent messag...
5 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Functionality already exists

Show CFSTRUCT and STGCLASS objects in MQ Console WEB

Currently the MQ Console WEB does not show/manage the CFSTRUCT and STGCLASS objects for MQ z/OS. It will be a nice improvement if we can manage this kind of objects, like we can do using the ISPF panels.
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration