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Status Future consideration
Workspace MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 10, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

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 forces us to offload too frequently

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Matthew Leming
    Jan 22, 2026

    This is a good match for other work we are planning on. This idea has been added to our internal backlog.

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8 MERGED

On zOS MQ please can you increase the maximum size of allowable MQ Logs. Currently this is limited to 4GB while in Db2 it is 768 GB minus 1 bytes

Merged
This would be useful because in our busiest MQ subsystems at the busiest times of day we have log switches every 2 mins(or even more) and in some cases we have more that 30 log switches in 1 hour. We have just finished a health check with IBM and ...
3 months ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration

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