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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

SMF 116 Channel Accounting -- Add LOCALADDR

Our mainframe MQ environment has several listeners on different ports that applications use. We find the SMF 116 channel accounting data very useful for determining what remote partners connect to us. However, it would also be helpful to know whic...
almost 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Enhance dmpmqcfg command to dump in XML format

The dmpmqcfg command can export the information in different formats: Usage: dmpmqcfg ... -o Format: mqsc, 1line, setmqaut, grtmqmaut. But all these formats are only usable as a backup. They can´t really be used to further process these informatio...
almost 12 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 4 Not under consideration

MQ .NET Managed Client: Support alias CipherSpecs such as ANY_TLS13_OR_HIGHER

In MQ .NET Managed Client, please add support for alias CipherSpecs such as ANY_TLS13_OR_HIGHER. A queue manager provider supports several cipher specs and recommends we configure the alias CipherSpec rather than a specific cipher, however, MQ .NE...
almost 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Future consideration

Support request for MQ Server and Client V9.1 on Windows Server 2019

We want to ensure MQ Server and MQ Client software is 100% compatible and supported when running on Windows Server 2019, to avoid any interruption or adverse impact to our business.
almost 7 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration

MQ .NET Managed client - Use most secure common negotiated CipherSpec by default

When I try to use the alias Ciphers (ANY_TLS12_OR_HIGHER) which are very popular now, it is silently ignored and instead it is defaulting to insecure TLS 1.0 by default. Can you change IBM MQ.NET managed client in this way : - Use most secure Ciph...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Is a defect

Produce the QESD and QEST records each interval

IBM MQ for z/OS produces inconsistent SMF records, which can cause misinterpretation of the data used to evaluate the CF structures and the SMDS information.
over 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Is a defect

Urgently need support for .net managed mode advanced message security

Here are the links that explain AMS support in .NET http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/mqams/v7r0m1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.mqese.doc%2Ftroubleshooting%2Ftroubleshooting_netsupport.htm http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKSJ_7.5.0/c...
about 12 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration

Enable TAG as an First Class Attribute for Queue Manager and Queue and other MQ Objects

Adding TAG attribute to each MQ Object allows easy view; helps in FINOPS and dashboard. There is already a Description and Custom key attribute; but having a dedicated TAG attribute helps for easy operations.
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Create process or triggering SMF records

This would be helpful to both customers and IBM for both problem determination and capacity planning.
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic reduction for SMDS after extends

During a MQ Health Check, an IBM MQ expert gave us an advice to use SMDS instead of DB2 offloading for shared MQ Messages. It has much more performance than using DB2 for offloading. Unfortunately, the size of the SMDS increase if MQ has a big wor...
almost 8 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration