Daily Archives: April 6, 2018

JMS (MQRFH2) Message But The User Sees Garbage

I swear at least once a month I read about someone complaining that they are seeing garbage (unreadable) output when they try to read their JMS (aka MQRFH2) message in IBM MQ. The user will put a message to a queue with their JMS application then try and read it with a non-JMS tool and […]

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Tic-Toc: WebSphere MQ v7.5 End of Service Date

The end of service date for WebSphere MQ v7.5 on distributed platforms (Linux, Unix, Windows and IBM i) is April 30, 2018. The official announcement can be found here: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg3t453863g97713d77 Summary for MQ End of Service Dates: WebSphere MQ v7.5 is April 30, 2018. WebSphere MQ v7.1 was April 30, 2017. WebSphere MQ v7.0.1 was […]

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