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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

IBM MQ Command to temporarily have MQ reset Sender/Receiver channel sequence numbers

It would be useful to have a command that can turn on a switch that would allow MQ to reset the Sender/Receiver Channel sequence numbers and then turn the switch off.
over 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Enable the connection of CICS tasks with a QSG

Currently it is only possible to connect a CICS task to a single queue manager in a fixed way. If CICS were able to connect to any queue manager of a QSG, it would increase flexibility and availability within the environment.
over 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Functionality already exists

Create a facility to manage Topics and Subscriptions through MQADM (TSO SDSF)

Currently it is only possible to manage topics and subscriptions by the MQ Explorer application or by running batch jobs (CSQUTIL). If this possibility is extended to MQADM, the maintenance of these resources would be much more user-friendly and e...
over 4 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Simplify MQ for z/OS Queue Manager Startup

A simplified and standard startup would be very useful as we had a number of situations where operators forgot to add they PARM which led to an incorrect start of MQ with incorrect parameters. This led to delays and issues being raised. Possibly a...
over 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Functionality already exists

Queue Manager Errors Written to Topic

Please enhance MQ to publish its messages that it writes to the error logs (e.g. MQP1MSTR/MQP1CHIN job logs, distributed queue manager error logs, distributed FDC errors) to also a system topic. This would allow remote monitoring applications to b...
almost 10 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Future consideration

Ask IBM to provide MQ stub for 64-bit COBOL z/OS programs

Currently, IBM MQ provides 31-bit stubs for multiple languages on z/OS, while a 64-bit stub is available only for C. We respectfully ask that IBM also provide a 64-bit stub for COBOL. Such support would greatly simplify the migration of existing 3...
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

MQ High Availability Enhancements to include multi-site replication.

Improves disaster recovery/alternate production availability through near real-time replication.
about 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Add feature to pause/resume forwarding to a streamq

Add a feature to able to pause/resume forwarding to a streamq without having to delete the streamq related defs from the source q. There are occasions where it is desirable to be able to temporarily disable forwarding to a streamq, one example wou...
about 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Enhance IDPWLDAP AUTHINFO functionality to filter on disabled\enabled user accounts

The current configuration options for IDPWLDAP do not allow filtering of enabled\disabled user accounts i.e. matching user records are returned regardless of whether the user is disabled or enabled within LDAP. This means, that when a user is disa...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

Add option to Stop/Start MFT Monitor Jobs via MQ Explorer GUI

System: MQ MFT and MQ ExplorerActor: User needing a new feature MFT is a widely used product to provide a file transfer solution for transferring files between systems in a reliable and audit able way. Description: We have many MFT monitor jobs on...
over 11 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration