MQGem Software is pleased to announce that a new version of MO71, our GUI Administrative tool for IBM MQ, is now available.
The main features of the release are as follows:-
You can now export Authority Records along with all your other objects
Export of AUTHREC in MQSC format
This was one of the most commonly requested features. You can now export AUTHREC definitions in MQSC format from the object and list dialogs as well as include AUTHRECs in the automatic Queue Manager export list.
API Exerciser enhancements
We are pleased to say that this version allows you to experiment with the MQCONNX, Message Handle and Message Property API calls. More information will be coming soon in another blog post.
Hostname display
When displaying a Channel Status output, MQ will send you the IP address eg.198.51.100.34. However, this is not hugely memorable. You can now ask MO71 to issue a gethostbyaddr() and display the result in a hostname field. You can go even further and put your own description of this in a dns file, MQMON.DNS, and have MO71 display that instead. Read more about this in Displaying host names in MO71.
User Commands
You can define your own commands which are then available in the Queue Manager context menu. Read more about this in Running User Commands in MO71.
Message Operations are now Message Token based
By basing message operations on Message Tokens the message operations such as browse, copy, mode and delete are much faster and more specific.
Can now invoke the MQEdit Message Editor directly
When you are browsing a message you can select ‘Edit…’ from the context menu and the MQEdit product will be started editing the same message, saving you having to re-navigate to that message in another tool. This is possible through the use of Message Tokens. You can also open the MQEdit product from a queue list and a single queue dialog and it will open with the messages from that queue already loaded into the list. Ensure you have MQEdit V9.0.1 (or higher) in order to do this. If you don’t have a licence for MQEdit, these options will not be available.
If you have the MQEdit product, you’ll get an Edit option
New Default Max. Column preference option
Some MQ fields can now be quite large, for example topic strings, subscription names and subscription selectors. This can mean that lists of objects can be have columns which are wider than you would like. You can now say how wide the column should be by default, and a new ‘…’ indicator shows if there is more to be seen than the column is currently displaying.
New Max Column and Field lengths for HTTP browser output
As above these large MQ fields can mean that the browser output is hard to read or it results in an output with a large horizontal scrollbar. You can now tell MO71 how much data to return in these situations.
More CipherSpecs considered weak
IBM recently updated the list of weak CipherSpecs to include those using the Triple DES algorithm, and so MO71 will not show you those CipherSpecs by default. You can ask MO71 to show you the weak ones in the Location dialog for the queue manager in question, but you will also need to enable them in MQ too if you want to use them. Read more about how in Deprecated CipherSpecs
Support for Command Level 902
UPDATE: With a minor update to MO71 after the release of IBM MQ Continuous Delivery Release 9.0.2, support for Command Level 902 has been added. Read more about the new command level in What’s in Command Levels 90x.
The new version can be downloaded from the MO71 Download Page. Any current licensed users of MO71 can run the new version on their existing licence. If you don’t have a licence and would like to try out MO71 then send an email to support@mqgem.com and a 1-month trial licence will be sent to you.
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