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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

Implement per-channel SSL/TLS certificate refresh capability to eliminate queue manager-wide client disconnections during certificate updates.

Currently, when onboarding new clients or updating certificates in IBM MQ, the refresh security type(ssl) command disconnects ALL existing SSL connections across the entire queue manager. This creates significant operational challenges: Service di...
11 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Enable Post‑Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in IBM MQ for TLS Communications

As quantum computing evolves, current public‑key cryptographic algorithms such as RSA and ECC face increasing vulnerability because quantum algorithms (e.g., Shor’s algorithm) can theoretically break these classical methods once sufficiently power...
about 2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Planned for future release

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...
6 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Install MQ-operator as helm-chart

Not all run OCP for various reasons - it would be nice if one could install the MQ-operator as a helm-chart. Nothing should conceptually be an issue for that. There will of course be somewhat overhead in packaging and distributing a chart - but it...
7 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Submitted

Expand Config Event Messages for subscription objects

Due to an issue we wanted to know when a specific subscriber object was created/altered. However, when looking through the config event queue we couldn't find anything related to subscribers. Looking at the list of object types that a create/chang...
9 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Requesting IKEYMAN to be restored in MQ 9.4

IKEYMAN tool was an excellent tool with the creation of CSR, New KDB file and updating Signers SSL certificate. I surprise that it was remove in MQ 9.4 version. To the MQ Product team, I am voting to restore back IKEYMAN tool. I am hopeful you wil...
7 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Needs more information

Publish com.ibm.mq.jakarta.connector.jar in Maven Central

Problem: The absence of this jar in Maven Central creates friction for developers integrating IBM MQ with modern frameworks like Quarkus. It requires manual extraction from the RAR or use of unofficial sources, which complicates CI/CD pipelines an...
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Future consideration

Support synchronous replication for Native HA - Cross Region Replication (CRR)

My customer would like to support RPO=0 for unplanned disruption. In their DR setup, they do have a low-latency network between their regions - e.g AWS Syd region -> GCP Syd region. With an option (for synchronous replication), it allows them t...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Future consideration

AMS (Advanced Message Security) Feature on HPE NonStop MQ

At Present IBM WebSphere MQ v8.1 Series on HPE NonStop (NSS) Platform Does Not Support Advanced Message Security which would encrypt the message as it sits on the queue. At JP Morgan Chase We need this Feature to be build and Enabled for MQ on HPE...
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review

Display userid in mq console with MQWebAdmin role in RACF for audit compliance

We are required to be able to audit all activity of an individual user. Currently when using mq console under the role of MQWebAdmin, the user showing the activity in RACF is the mq console instead of the user performing the actions. This violates...
8 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance Under review