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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

Enhance the dmpmqcfg command with an -MQ_Appliance option to filter out inconsistencies from other platforms (i.e. Linux, AIX, Windows etc.) when migrating to an MQ Appliance

Queue Managers with thousands of objects would require too much time to manually massage (convert) the output of the dmpmqcfg to comply with one compatible with the MQ Appliance e.g. MQ Exits, SSLKEYR, Specific System objects, Local IP Address, CC...
about 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

client channel provide performance info

Client channels should be extended to provide the count of requests that were delayed.When a channel with sharecnv(>1) is used, an application can be delayed while the channels is processing a request.The FAP should include a bit, which is set ...
about 7 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

New Feature for IBM MQ AMS on UNIX Platform

Right now IBM MQ AMS can't be implemented between 2 queue mangers on distributed platforms where one support AMS and other doesn't support AMS on distributed platforms. Please get this feature enabled on distributed platform as well for environmen...
about 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Detail of Failed transfers

When application submits a JCL with fteCreateTransfer call with -w (wait) option, if transfer fails on JCL appears only BFGCL0141E message with this XML field from "FAILED" event: BFGRP0034I: The file transfer request has completed with no files b...
over 13 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

Fully synchronous replication in HA-DR solutions

A disaster is not an excuse to lose messages. Some systems require no loss of data for a local failure, (HA), and also for a site failure, (DR). Unless RQDM HA-DR or Native HA-DR solutions fully support synchronous replication we will be unable to...
about 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Include MQ Channel Statistics in SMF115 records so they can be transmittd via zLDA as a curated record and is easily viewable in Splunk

Since IBM has announced in MQ 9.3.3 that QUEUE Stats will move into SMF115, and IBM zLDA/cdp teams will use this enhancement in MQ to send MQ curated records for "queues", the same functionality for MQ "channels" should also be sent. Having a comp...
about 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Not under consideration

Provide logging to stdout\stderr for MFT redistributable package

For containerised environments with a centralised logging mechanism there is often a requirement to direct log output to stdout\stderr of the pid=1. The log to file options currently provided by MFT include logic to rotate based on size\age which ...
over 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 5 Functionality already exists

Improve dmpmqcfg 1line mqsc for better backup handling

To ensure complete disaster recovery of our appliance, we regularly back up our queue manager configurations using the dmpmqcfg command (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4.x?topic=reference-dmpmqcfg-dump-queue-manager-configuration). This tool...
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

In IBMMQ V9.3 you removed the Widget based Web Console, we and many other customers use and rely on its functionality to provide enterprise monitoring and statistics metrics, please re-instate in future versions

It provided monitoring capability not provided by any other of your product range and we rely upon it to provide monitoring and stats, as do many other customers.A terrible step backwards !
about 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

add queue size [MB] to the statistics

The statistics include QMinDepth / MQIAMO_Q_MIN_DEPTH and QMaxDepth / MQIAMO_Q_MAX_DEPTH which shows Min / Max value of CURDEPTH. Would you please add similar attributes for Minimal and Maximal Size of Queue / Queue File in MB. The attribute shoul...
about 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration