Archive for the Category: IBM MQ Appliance

IBM MQ V9.2.2 Announced

March 23, 2021 Roger Lacroix

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

March 11, 2021 Roger Lacroix

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

March 10, 2021 Roger Lacroix

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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Interesting Blog Item: IBM Knowledge Center – LATEST!

February 10, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Morag Hughson of MQGem has a new blog posting called IBM Knowledge Center – LATEST! regarding a new feature in the IBM Knowledge Center. Instead of providing a link with the MQ version number, you can swap the version number for the word “latest”. This is a cool feature for putting links in a blog […]

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IBM MQ End of Service Dates

February 9, 2021 Roger Lacroix

So, what version of IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) are you running? Are you behind in upgrading your release of MQ? Everybody “should be” running IBM MQ v9.0, v9.1 or v9.2, if you want support from IBM. In case it has slipped your mind, here is a list of IBM MQ releases and […]

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Reasons MQSC Commands for an AMQP Channel May Not Work

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has posted a support document describing the various reasons why an MQSC command may not work for an AMQP channel. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6411487 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Using Loki and Grafana with MQ Logs

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Mark Taylor of IBM has posted a blog item on using Loki and Grafana software to parse and display information from MQ logs. https://marketaylor.synology.me/?p=838 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Local Transactions Using IBM MQ and the JMS API

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Olja Rastic-Dulborough has written an article that introduces the user to the concepts of local transactions using IBM MQ and JMS. https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-mq/articles/an-introduction-to-local-transactions-using-mq-and-jms/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Part 2: Customer Question Regarding Automation with MQ Visual Edit

February 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

So, continuing with the customer, after they successfully tested MQ Batch Toolkit on Windows with a scheduled Windows batch script, they had a new question: how can we be sure that the file.txt are send in the proper order ( chronological) from the 1 to last ( by time) So, here are the batch/scripts files […]

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Video: How to boost your business with IBM MQ

February 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Marcus Kaye of IBM has created and posted a video on IBM MQ titled: “How to boost your business with IBM MQ” Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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