Archive for the Category: IBM MQ

IBM MQ Knowledge Center Icons

IBM keeps added more and more icons in the MQ Knowledge Center to highlight which platforms and/or versions that a particular feature is supported on. You can find a complete list and explanation of the icons on the following MQ Knowledge Center page: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/latest?topic=mq-release-platform-icons-in-product-documentation Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.8 Released

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.8 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-mq-9108 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Java MQ Code to Clear a Queue of Messages

If you have done the following runmqsc command to clear a queue: And you wanted to do the same thing via a program, here is a fully functioning Java MQ example that will connect to a remote queue manager, issue a PCF “Clear Queue” command, get the PCF response messages and output if the PCF […]

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Programmatically Get IBM MQ Version for Both Client and Queue Manager

Recently, on both StackOverflow and mqseries.net, people have been asking about getting both the client and queue manager versions numbers for MQ. It is pretty easy to get both the client and queue manager from the command line. For the IBM MQ installation that is running the queue manager, you simply issue the following command: […]

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WebSphere MQ Fix Pack 5.3.1.17 for HP NonStop Server Released

IBM has just released Fix Pack 5.3.1.17 for WebSphere MQ for HP NonStop Server: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6427757 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.2.0.2 Released

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.2.0.2 for IBM MQ V9.2 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6434245 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ V9.2.2 Announced

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.2.2: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS221-075 Highlights: MQ 9.2.2: – Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) browse support MQ Advanced 9.2.2: – The capabilities listed in MQ 9.2.2 – New ordering options for nonproduction workloads – An early release of “native high-availability”, which is made available for demonstration purposes for clients deploying container-based queue managers […]

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Enhancement to Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

Yesterday, I wrote a blog item regarding Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files. I forgot that the dmpmqcfg program can output the MQ Object information as 1 line rather than spanning multiple lines. Hence, if we let dmpmqcfg do that work then we can simplify the Rexx script to only output the various MQ objects […]

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Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

I posted this item on mqseries.net and I thought I should do a write up here. Back in the early 2000s, I was a consultant at a customer site and they wanted the nightly dumps of the MQ objects (not messages), 1 line per object and then check those files into a source code repository. […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 8.0.0.16 Released

IBM has just released Fix Pack 8.0.0.16 for IBM MQ https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6417257 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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