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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

MQ appliance: local users/passwords should be replicated in HA setup

Implement automatic replication of local MQ appliance users, groups, and passwords between HA/DR paired appliances to ensure consistent authentication during failover scenarios. Why is it useful? IBM MQ appliances currently replicate queue manager...
11 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

allow connection to MQ using SSL (with CCDT)

based on case ID TS019811426 on IBM support we learnt that currently TXSeries doesn't support MQ SSL connection our customer currently and others in the future might require secure connection to the QMGR.
11 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Needs more information

provide early code update required to be on all queue sharing systems "earlier", via service stream for current release rather than having to order the next release to obtain

It would benefit accounts with shared mq queues to ease upgrades. Today I have to order CBPDO ahead of my z/OS PSI (for 3R1 for instance) to obtain the early code to deploy it through all sysplexes prior to the MQ upgrades that will occur with my ...
12 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Remotely managing of MQ instances

Given the ever increasing risk and controls driven environment, we would like a programmatic way to manage mq instances from external APIs and avoid humans logging into OS shell and running manual commands especially in container context. Some exa...
12 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Add JMS 3.0 Queues and Connection Factories to IBM MQ Explorer

Currently only JMS 2.0 Queues and CF are visible in MQ Explorer, would be nice to Administer, Configure and Support if JMS 3.0 Queues and CF are visible in MQ Explorer
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Allow editing of message body

Useful for testing and troubleshooting. User should be able to change the payload in an MQSeries message.
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Enable setmqweb to work with non UTF-8 files

Our webuser.xml is (EBCDIC readable) coded in IBM-273 according to our maintenance strategy. While MQWEB has no problem with it, any try to change it via setmqweb fails because setmqweb works only with UTF-8 files. Please enable setmqweb to proces...
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Provide the ability to pace external Get requests coming into a qmgr by slowing down channels or queues internally throttling the Getters

We have had a couple of issues where the volume of external Get requests have caused concern. One such issue was when we wanted to control how fast a Getter application could consume messages off a queue, the reason being is that consuming message...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Create process or triggering SMF records

This would be helpful to both customers and IBM for both problem determination and capacity planning.
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Not under consideration

Filtering in MQ Explorer do not all for special characters to be used.

The base MQ product support the creations of objects (like a Process definition) that contain attributes containing special characters. An example will be when you have a CICS transaction starting with a # and you use this as the Application ID in...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Is a defect