| VOLUME VI. – No. 3. | MONDAY, 30 MARCH, 2020 | PRICE: FREE |
Welcome to the March edition of the MQGem Monthly Newsletter, bringing you company news from MQGem Software, information about the MO71, MQSCX, MQEdit, MQEV, Q and QLOAD products, our IBM MQ training modules, and interesting articles about IBM MQ.
News
MQGem COVID-19 Update: Both Paul and Morag are well and healthy and the MQGem business is open as usual. We are a fully online business and can continue to operate during lock down. If you have any questions or problems please contact us in the usual way. We hope all our customers, clients and friends are staying well and healthy.
There have been a couple of MO71 minor updates:
Interesting IBM MQ links
Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.
- mqweb – is it better to use certificate authentication or userid and password?
- Is mqweb secure enough? Depends on what you mean by secure enough
- MQ Pub/Sub: is it possible to specify the Priority for delivering a message to Subscribers? can Subscriber-1 get the message even if Subscriber-2 has a full queue?
- Types of Accounting & Statistics
- Understanding the costs reported by MQ accounting trace on z/OS Part 1 and Part 2
- mqweb – who did what to what, when, and how long did it take?
- Determining the cost of workloads that move messages using channels on MQ for z/OS
- Moving files of an MQ queue manager from one Linux host to another Linux host
- Moving files of an MQ queue manager from one Windows host to another Windows host
- MQ Distributed: collection of articles regarding installation, upgrade and migration
- mqweb – what’s the difference between MQWebAdmin* and MQWebUser roles?
- A basic approach to IBM MQ RDQM HA in Azure
- Webinar Recording: Building an active/active IBM MQ messaging system with Uniform Clusters
- IBM MQ Little Gem #46: SYSTEM compression algorithm
- IBM MQ: Considerations for OpenShift Container Storage 4.2 (CephFS)
- Installing MQ 9.0 in Windows, specifying default components
- Building scalable fault tolerant systems with IBM MQ (9.1.2 + updates for 9.1.3 and 9.1.4)
- After installing MQ 9.1.x in Linux, the verification “rpm -Vp” fails for MQSeriesWeb*.rpm
- Deploying IBM MQ with a single command
- How to find out if there are interim fixes applied to the installation of MQ in Linux/Unix, Windows?
- Full example of using mqfixinst.sh to install an MQ interim fix in Linux
We share all the above links on our Twitter feed and Facebook page so if you don’t want to wait until the end-of-month newsletter, follow us on there.
Upcoming events
There are a number of conference events where IBM MQ will be featured in the coming months. Hopefully you’ll be able to sign up to one near you and obtain some MQ technical education.
- THINK in San Francisco – early May – online event
- Integration Technical Conference in Dallas – early August
- GUIDE Share France – late August
- GSE Nordic in Stockholm, Sweden – postponed from June to late September
Upcoming online events
If you’re unable to get to any “in-person” events, then these online webcasts are just what you need.
- April 17 (11AM EST) – Webinar: Modernizing your IBM MQ systems for tomorrow’s challenges – Speakers: Callum Jackson and Arthur Barr or David Ware
Product Info
This months highlighted product information is a video showing the API Exerciser in MO71.
IBM MQ Latest Maintenance
Make sure you’re on the latest maintenance level of your version of IBM MQ. These are the latest Fix Packs at the time of going to press. Check here for the latest versions now, and here for the planned dates for the next ones.
- For V9.1.0 LTS, Fix Pack 4 (next 2Q 2020)
- For V9.1.x CD.
- For V9.0.0 LTS, Fix Pack 9 (next 2Q 2020)
- For V8.0.0, Fix Pack 14 (next 2Q 2020).
This version will go EOS on 30th April 2020. See also - For V7.5.0, Fix Pack 9 (no plans).
This version went EOS on 30th April 2018. See also
Handy IBM MQ Resources
If you’re on Twitter and are looking for accounts to follow that share #IBMMQ or #MQAppliance content, here are a few suggestions. You can also find this list on Twitter at MQGem/IBMMQ_Resources.
- MQGem Software @MQGem
- Cloud Tech Support @IBM_CTS
- IBM Integration @IBMMIntegration
- Leif Davidsen @LeifDavidsen
- Jens Diedrichsen @JensDiedrichsen
- Morag Hughson @MoragHughson
- Paul Clarke @PaulClarkeMQGem
- T.Rob Wyatt @tdotrob and his non-political MQ only alter-ego Deep Queue @deepqueue
- David Ware @dware301
- Matt Roberts @matrober
- IBM User Community @IBMMiddleWareUC
- MQ Fan @IBMMQFan
- Colin Paice @ColinPaiceMQ
- Kazumichi Hatakeyama @KHatakeyama
- Capitalware Inc. @Capitalware
- TxMQ, Inc. @TxMQITSolutions
- Avada Software @AvadaSoftware
- OpenLogix @openlogix
Contact Information
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