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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

Add support for local storage for MQ NativaHA in Edge scenarios

We are migrating our MQ on ACE Manufacturing pack on RHEL VMs located in factories which are edge sites with low resource footprint. MQ instances will be migrated using MQ Operator (SC-2 release) that supports NativeHA on Openshift 3 Node Cluster,...
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Enhance runmqsc and MQExplorer to allow them to use JWTs to authenticate connections to a qmgr.

Although support for JWTs was added to MQ Client in 9.4 this is not yet supported by the admin tools such as runmqsc and MQExplorer. Using tokens to authenticate connections to QMgrs that are enabled for this would be highly beneficial.
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Provide a message in mqweb server that shows the Liberty code level

Although there are messages that externalize the level of the mqweb server code executed, there is not a message that provides the level of WebSphere Liberty like provided by the output of the /mq_install_path/web/bin/productInfo version --verbose...
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Add IGNSTATE to CHLAUTH Rules

Please add the ability to specify IGNSTATE(YES) on a SET CHLAUTH ACTION(REMOVE) command. This would allow us to more easily write idempotent scripts for cleaning up our queue managers. Most every other object type has IGNSTATE(YES) as an option wh...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Necessary MQ Security Enhancements - Especially on z/OS

Lack of access visibility, especially while RESLEVEL is set permissively For example, if the CICS ID establishes a connection to MQ, MQ would not verify subsequent IDs from a user ID leveraging that CICS region to submit something to MQ from CIC...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Enable API Key Authentication for Downloading MQ Packages from FixCentral and GetMQFix

We want to automate the retrieval of the latest MQ libraries and images from FixCentral and GetMQFix through our CI/CD pipeline to reduce manual work. Currently, the portals do not offer API key/token authentication. Please review this topic to su...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

MQ Appliance for WMware

As for the datapower appliances, would it be possible to have the MQ appliances in the form of an OVA for VMWare?
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Future consideration

Authentication tokens (JWT) for LDAP connected Queue Managers

Allow Queue Managers connected to LDAP (IDPWLDAP) to use authentication tokens (JWT) for authentication/authorization.
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Future consideration

Require MFA functionality for MQ

As part of security standards we have enabled MFA(Multi Factor Authentication) to all our applications. We would like to enable the same for MQ Web Admin Console. This will bring in more secured logins to our console as MQ is being one of the crit...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Functionality already exists

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