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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

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MQ Wildcard certificate support

We are currently running MQ as part of our CP4i bundle, since the new version 2023.4 IBM has decided to use Keycloak to authenticate all products, problem is that MQ is the only package that doesn't support Wildcard certificates, we had cases TS01...
8 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

provide additional security to the cluster queues when using shared Qmgrs to send msgs to downstream qmgrs

Whats missing?? With existing MQ product version 7 to 9.3 - when comes to Cluster design there is no control over shared applications using the same qmgr(shared qmgr) and sending msgs to downstream applications. With the MQ Cluster by design we se...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 6 Functionality already exists

Have the Queue Manager produce a read only message showing all the parameters its running with

A queue manager gets many of its characteristics from the qm.ini file. Environment variables set for the mqm ID also dictate how the Queue Manager behaves. Currently there is no way for an MQ Admin to know what all these values are with an MQ Clie...
almost 11 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 8 Future consideration

Expose password age for local accounts on MQ Appliance

There is currently no way to query the age of a local account password on the MQ Appliance and if a password expiry policy has been set there are no warnings or errors generated when a password nears expires or actually expires. So the request is ...
about 2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Adding Windows "Group Managed Service Accounts" support to MQ

In our environment we have user dedicated for IBM MQ service runnig.Our Security Standards requires periodical changing password for that user. The password should be unknow by administrator. Windows gMSA will resolve all problems with this issue ...
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Make MQ Native HA available in Linux installations

Native HA offers a high availability solution that is dependent on neither shared filesystems nor 3rd party libraries & kernel modules. Removing the dependency on container technology makes it more accessible to users.
over 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

Channel status display shows remote queue manager's SSL/TLS Certificate Expiration date

Having the the channel status display show the expiration date for the remote queue manager's SSL certificate would be extremely helpful to avoid disruption of MQ traffic when dealing with business partners or queue managers out of our control.
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Ability to restrict access to channel auth records

Currently there is no way to restrict access to channel auth records. This means any user can view the records currently in place regardless of their user role. This means that a read only user for example would be able to see the user names and h...
almost 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

MQ Should Automatically Rebuild XCF Entries!

This idea is a re-hashing of [MESNS-I-205] which was previously declined. It is unreasonable that MQ for z/OS does not automatically handle rebuilding XCF entries as part of QSG recovery. If for any reason, the entries go missing (like during alte...
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Not under consideration

Increase OUTBUFF parameter for IBM MQ for z/OS

Hi there, We have many Production lpars complaining about "log buffer waits" for MQ managers. We have opened 2 IBM cases for that, we have implemented all best practices, but without success. OUTBUFF parameter is limited to 4000. Very small space,...
over 2 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration