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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

Eliminate the manual BACKMIG command requirement for compatibility with older MQ versions.

Starting with MQ 9.3, IBM introduced the BACKMIG command to convert MQ datasets to a format compatible with older versions (MQ backout). Without using BACKMIG, the Queue Manager may encounter issues when starting on a lower version. Therefore, it ...
7 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Expose comprehensive MQIPT operational and performance metrics via JMX so they can be automatically discovered , scraped and validated through instana java agent

We need to expose operation and performance metrics through a standard JMX MBean interface including the following as minimum: Core runtime Metrics:Process uptimeVersion/build infoActive listeners and their configuration stateNumber of active conn...
2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

We need a IBM MQ C and .NET redistributable client for Linux 64-bit,x86_64 that does not contain 32-bit executable/libraries

Currently, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4.x?topic=clients-limitations-other-considerations-redistributable includes a warning: "Important: IBM Support is only able to provide assistance with the full, unmodified set of files contained with...
8 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

MQ Explorer & Passphrase

It seems that IBM MQ Explorer (at least the v9.4.1 we used) does not support Passphrase. Since, for security reasons, more and more systems are implementing this mechanism, I think it is a good idea to support it from the MQ Explorer as well.
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Functionality already exists

Option to export MQ objects (dmpmqcfg) in JSON format

we are looking for IBM to enhance dmpmqcfg tool to generate output in JSON format (MQ Object definitions), as it would be easy for any programmatic tool to read Ex: dmpmqcfg -m QMGR -n QUEUE -t channel -o json
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Future consideration

Enable API Key Authentication for Downloading MQ Packages from FixCentral and GetMQFix

We want to automate the retrieval of the latest MQ libraries and images from FixCentral and GetMQFix through our CI/CD pipeline to reduce manual work. Currently, the portals do not offer API key/token authentication. Please review this topic to su...
6 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Add support for OpenTelemetry Metrics to IBM MQ

The IBM MQ metrics samples that are available on GitHub here, https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-metric-samples/tree/master/cmd/mq_otel provide a sample for collecting metrics from IBM MQ and exporting them to the OpenTelemetry Collector. The Ope...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Future consideration

Persist LGETDATE LGETTIME LPUTDATE LPUTTIME between queue manager reboots

This is useful info that I can't see a reason to not persist among queue manager reboots.
almost 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Evenly Distribution of Connections to available QMGRs in a LPAR

As part of an IBM recommendation, we are implementing a second Queue Manager in each CICS LPAR of our Production environment. In our tests, in an test environment with more than one QMGR is available, we have observed that the connections are NOT ...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Caching shared queues automatically in CF structure

Hi, With PTFs UI93711 and UI95083 (MQ 9.3), we can observe an increased of DB2 request with plan CSQ5R* for non-cached shared queue (never opened). We made a small patching program to open all non-cached queues, but we would like to request the i...
5 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review