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Expose some internal processes to SMF

MQ has traditionally not exposed some internal processes to SMF data. This can mean there are processes acting on behalf of applications that those of us relying on observability via SMF cannot 'see.' For example, a customer heavily using administ...
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Allow DR activities to be performed in parallel on MQ Appliance

Currently there is a limitation that DR related activities can only be applied to one QMgr at a time on the mq appliance which means that failing over QMgrs on an appliance needs to be performed serially which can extend the time to failover all Q...
about 2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Enhance the mqbackup command with options to exclude queue message data

Enhance the mqbackup command with options to exclude queue message data while preserving all configuration and infrastructure components for safe, fast recovery. Why is it useful? The current mqbackup functionality provides significant operational...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

MQ z/OS better visibility into Dispatcher/Channel CPU consumption

We can see how much CPU the Dispatchers use, and how many channels are using them, but not which channels are using them an how much CPU is used by channel. Channels are associated with a dispatcher for their lifetime, so it should be possible to ...
9 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

MQ appliance: Implement separate storage allocation for MQ configuration/metadata versus message data

Currently on MQ appliances, queue manager configuration, metadata, and message data share the same storage allocation, creating a critical operational failure mode. When disk space becomes depleted due to message accumulation, the entire queue man...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

CHL Authrec and Object Autrrec commands enhancement/Bug fix

1) When we have IP's for whitelisting for a channel profile, we need MQ as a product to delete those Auth records when we delete the channel object on the qmgr. Currently its not done automatically. Example: We delete a channel on the qmgr, its ch...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

ClusterQueueAccessControl=RQMName to work even for QMGR local aliases.

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4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

define active log as Vsam Extended

similarly to what is already possible on the DB2 product, it would be very useful define Active Log MQ larger than the current 4GB, defining them as VSAM EXTENDED. In our Production environment, a 4Gb Active Log lasts 2/3 minutes at most and this ...
7 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Allow customer the flexibility to attributes to monitor and delay replication between RDQM HA and DR knowing the risk they are taking if fail over occurs.

Proposed Enhancement We recommend implementing a more resilient replication mechanism for RDQM with DR the following capabilities: Asynchronous Buffering: Allow replication processes to continue accepting and processing local data while queuing up...
10 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Under review

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...
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review