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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

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
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

Enhance IBM MQ for z/OS to Display RSU Level Information

Currently, MQ administrators must use SMP/E reports, CSI queries, or manual maintenance verification processes to determine the installed RSU (Recommended Service Upgrade) level. This requires additional effort and SMP/E expertise, especially duri...
about 2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Under review

To determine re-usable ePVT of a MQ CHIN address space

We have been getting alerts for high ePVT utilization for multiple MQ CHIN address spaces regularly. This is because of high number of channel connections/disconnections driven by business requirement ie client scales up multiple connections to me...
almost 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

MQ zHyperWrite zIIP eligible

We have enabled zHyperWrite on both Db2 and MQ and there is an increase in CPU usage on MQ MSTR. This additional CPU became zIIP eligible for Db2 11, so the cost of enabling zHyperWrite is negligible and we would like to have the same enhancement ...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

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...
12 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

IBM MQ is preventing WebSphere Application Server (WAS) to be started in reusables ASIDs

In our business operation, we need to take down the WAS servers to make the user application unavailable at night. These stops (and later restarts) of the WAS servers are consuming the ASIDs in the systems they run and demanding frequent IPLs. We ...
almost 5 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
10 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Not under consideration

MQ on z/OS - Could you please increase the space limit for local queues on z/OS MQ beyond the current 64GB?

We have processes that generate a large number of messages in a short period for asynchronous processing, all directed to a single queue. Eventually, the associated pageset becomes full, causing messages to overflow to the Dead Letter Queue (DLQ),...
7 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Preferred location for Native HA QMgr

RDQM has the ability to set a preferred location for the queue manager, as one of the three nodes. This is very useful if you run three queue managers, on three Linux machines (with the replicas for each on the other two machines). With Native HA ...
11 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Under review

MQ on z/OS-Extend Maximum Pageset size to more than 64GB

This is useful in cases where there are business applications which have high volume of messages i.e. when they are processing batch of messages with high volume on weekends/month ends and year end data. In such scenarios, 64GB of pageset space is...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Not under consideration