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MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance

Support passphrase in the MQ-IMS Bridge

My customer who uses MQ-IMS Bridge to access IMS remotely wants to enhance security by having the option to use passphrase instead of password when using the MQ-IMS Bridge.
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ administrators need a non-disruptive way to make CLUSRCVR SSLCIPH changes.

IBM MQ administrators need a non-disruptive way to make CLUSRCVR SSLCIPH changes. Currently, if an IBM MQ administrator changes the SSLCIPH on a CLUSRCVR channel (ex. ALTER CHL(MY.CHL) CHLTYPE(CLUSRCVR) SSLCIPH(ANY_TLS13_OR_HIGHER)), there is the ...
about 2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Customize MQ Console Web Overview

It can customize the widgets on the MQ web console's overview page to add or remove metrics.
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Display QMGR name in JMS error messages

Our JMS Queue Connection Factory in WAS is configured with the Queue Sharing Group name and also with a VIPA IP and Port.In practice, the connection can be established with any QMGR in the QSG environment.This is very good in terms of High Availab...
almost 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

Alternative resiliency options for IBM MQSeries

While Native HA is the recommended solution to provide the highest resiliency natively in the product, it has several deployment challenges for customer private clouds. 1. High entry cost. Native HA requires OpenShift or Kubernetes to operate. Tha...
over 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 2 Future consideration

monitor the JVM memory of the MQ applications, console, REST

Hello, Due to an issue we recently experienced with an MQ appliance, we believe it would be useful to monitor the JVM memory of the applications.Would it be possible to implement this functionality in a way that allows this information to be colle...
7 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to MQ/MFT on z/OS to provide retries on allocations failures

File transfers from other systems to a z/OS MQ/MFT agent fail, if the target dataset is busy, such as the case of a GDG dataset. This change would allow for the transfers to wait (based on retries and timeout values specified) until the target dat...
4 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Not under consideration

Auto-restart of MQ Native HA pods on OpenShift when a referenced secret changes

We run the latest MQ operator (channel v4.0-sc2, MQ v10.0.0.0) as NativeHA pods on OpenShift 4.20, co-hosted with ACE v13 / manufacturing pack v3 across several factories. When cert-manager renews the MQ keystore certificate stored in a secret, th...
about 2 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Under review

Cloud-native management of MQ-objects using MQ-operator on openshift

While it is possible to maintain mq objects via mqsc scripts as described in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.2.x?topic=manager-example-supplying-mqsc-ini-files - the mechanism is a bit weak and fiddly, because: 1) operator will only cycle the...
about 1 year ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Future consideration