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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

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MQ FTE - Archive Option on File Transfers

Have an option to specify "Archive File too" on Create Transfers, so when a file completes successfully, WMQFTE can move the file to a given Archive Folder in the fteCreateTransfer command or via the XML file used when creating Monitors
over 11 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration

MQIPT config file (mqipt.conf) as JSON structure

The mqipt.conf file is a proprietary plain-text format. It does not lend itself to easy manipulation, management and\or querying. Would it be possible to use a more established standard e.g. yaml, JSON?
about 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Future consideration

Add the ability to downgrade a multiplatform MQ Queue Manager after a major version upgrade

Making it possible to downgrade a Qmgr to an older version of MQ after an upgrade, would make it easier and quicker to backout upgrades. There would be less impact to the environment and the applications if Qmgrs could be more easily moved between...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Apply security patches to MQ while the software is running and/or libraries are in-use

We have an internal policy which requires security vulnerabilities to be patched within 7-90 days (depending on the severity of the vulnerability). If we were able to rollout patches to MQ without the need to cycle Queue Managers or applications, ...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Allow "boot switch" command to roll back firmware in HA enabled MQ appliance

In a MQ Appliance which is HA enabled , "boot image" cli command allows to upgrade the appliance firmware . However when you try to roll back to previous firmware image using cli command "boot switch" as recommended by Datapower L3, MQ complains t...
over 6 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

Provide a mapping from data in PCF to the supplied format structures

When formatting PCF data I want to code from the data to a meaningful string. For example Field 1157 : value 1168 is Usage Type : Usage Pageset We need a mapping so that a field with type 1157 -> Use MQIACF_STR or MQMAP(MQIACF_USAGE_TYPE, MQIAC...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Quorum/Tiebreaker capability to protect M2000 appliance HA from split-brain during network failure events

An external agent should be provided that can be hosted separately from the appliance, ideally on a completely separate network, potentially in a separate datacentre. The appliances and the external agent form a ‘cluster' in which all are treated ...
about 9 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

Allow MFT File Logger to connect to Multi-Instance queue manager

The MFT File Logger can be connected to a remote queue manager using the loggerQmgrHost, loggerQmgrPort, and loggerQmgrChannel parameters. However, there does not appear to be a way to specify a secondary host in order to support a multi-instance ...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Add Delivery Delay to MQ API

MQ V8 implemented JMS 2.0 Delivery Delay feature which allows a JMS application to put a message that is delivered to the target queue after a specified delay interval. I would like to see this feature implemented in the base MQI. It would be very...
over 9 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Future consideration

MQ MFT should send z/OS SMF records on its own

IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is not able to ship z/OS SMF records on its own, it should be able to do it. Currently, in order for it to be able to ship this kind of files it needs the file to be XMITed on the sending side, and then it needs to be ...
about 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration