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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

Allow sender channel with generic cipherspec with receiver channel with specific cipherspec

This is particularly useful to those that want to convert to a generic cipherspec without having to worry whether their partner is using a generic cipherspec. Behavior verified in MQ 9.4.0.11 on Windows If the sender channel is using ANY_TLS12_OR_...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring with MQ Web Console

It will be great to have MQ Web Console do monitoring & notification of the common events such as Queue Manager stopped, High queue depth warning, Queue full alert etc. There should be a provision for email or text based notification when the ...
about 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

IBM Java Interlanguage Batch for z/OS V2.4 and V2.5 provides the opportunity to implement Batch Jobs with Interlanguage Calls between COBOL and Java, which use the same thread from COBOL and Java to Db2 and act as one UOW. This support should be expanded expanded to MQSeries.

IBM Java Interlanguage Batch for z/OS V2.4 and V2.5 allows us to implement jobs with Interlanguage Calls (ILC) between COBOL and Java and access to Db2 as one thread. Pre-Requisite for this new feature is the APAR PH45216 in LE and PH48861 in Db2 ...
over 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

MQ Explorer: Implement access to Windows certificate and key store

Hi all! In our installation, we have ~100 developers accessing our queue managers. We have the requirement to enforce certificate-based user authentication for all of them. The number of TLS and/or X.509 experts among them is limited. To reduce th...
over 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

M2000a appliance: support for linear logging

New M2000a only supports circular logging, for several reasons we've moved almost all of our qmgr's to linear logging (except the ones that doesn't use persistence in their messages).
about 11 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Make the connection name of remote queue manager in MQ explorer modifiable after creation

Currently in MQ Explorer, after we created a remote queue manager entry and no matter it works or not, the connection name can no longer be changed. If for any reason this entry no longer usable, we have to delete it and create a new one, using ne...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Show actual SSLKEYR in use

As of IBM MQ V9.4.4, if the SSLKEYR field contains no file extension, it can be either provided-name.kdb or provided-name.p12. In previous releases, if it contained no file extension it could only be provided-name.kdb and so it was absolutely clea...
9 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

MQ backup enhancement

Optimize the backup to only backup used pages of pagesets. This will reduce process time and resource usage.
about 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Not under consideration

Allow customer the flexibility to attributes to monitor and delay replication between RDQM HA and DR knowing the risk they are taking if fail over occurs.

Proposed Enhancement We recommend implementing a more resilient replication mechanism for RDQM with DR the following capabilities: Asynchronous Buffering: Allow replication processes to continue accepting and processing local data while queuing up...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Get a full standard and compliant Rest API for MQ

Hello, I recently tried to take advantage of Terraform (IaC) to manage my MQ Objects. And unfortunately, I faced multiple full-stops. 1) There is no MQ (Objects) provider for terraform (not a big issue as I chose to use Rest API Mastercard provide...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 4 Not under consideration