| VOLUME VIII. – No. 8. | TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST, 2022 | PRICE: FREE |
Welcome to the August 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
After a busy couple of months of new releases from IBM and MQGem, it’s a quiet month for news this month. Plenty of blog posts and articles to read though
Interesting IBM MQ links
Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.
- Running Problematic x86_64 Containers, such as MQ, using Podman on ARM (M1) Macs
- How to use AMS to enforce security and governance by encrypting IBM MQ messages on OpenShift
- IBM MQ multi-instance and RDMQ require same userid for user 'mqm' and same groupid for group 'mqm' across nodes
- IBM MQ Appliance M2003 is available
- On Linux 8.x machines seen the errors libedit version as “unknown” and runmqsc gives “AMQ8521I: Command completion and history unavailable.
- Detailed procedure of migrating regular IBM MQ Queue Manager to RDQM HA Queue manager
- File names in JCL
- Using CSQUDMSG – working samples for the z/OS person
- Using CSQUDMSG – working samples for the z/OS person – Updates
- IBM MQ for z/OS – an unexpected problem producing MQ SMF data
- MQ for z/OS 9.3 – Performance report available!
- Authenticating to the IBM MQ Console with the openidConnectClient feature
- Everything you need to know about running IBM MQ on AWS
- Managing Not Authorized (Type 4) Events
- Troubleshooting intermittent network errors on the MQ Appliance.
- How to enable LLDIAG on the MQ Appliance to gather diagnostic information.
- Get an IBM MQ queue for development running on Azure
- Real audiences
We share all the above links on our Twitter feed, Facebook page and LinkedIn 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.
- GSE France MQ Working Group – October 2022
- GSE UK Conference – November 2022
Upcoming online events
If you’re unable to get to any “in-person” events, then these online webcasts are just what you need.
- September 13th (11:00am EDT) – Webinar: MQ and Event Streams – get the best of both worlds – Speakers: Matt Sunley and Alan Chatt
Product Info
This months highlighted product information is a video about the MQSCX Control Language.
IBM MQ Latest Maintenance
Make sure you’re on the latest maintenance level of your version of MQ.
Distributed (LTS)
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 V9.3.0 LTS, No Fix Pack yet (next 3Q 2022)
- For V9.2.0 LTS, Fix Pack 6 (next 4Q 2022)
- For V9.1.0 LTS, Fix Pack 11 (next 3Q 2022)
- For V9.0.0 LTS, Fix Pack 13 (no plans).
This version went EOS on 30th September 2021. See also
Continuous Delivery (CD)
These are the currently supported CD releases.
- V9.3.0 CD (more info) download
- V9.2.5 CD (more info) download 24th Feb 2023
- V9.2.4 CD (more info) 18th Nov 2022
z/OS (LTS)
These are the latest RSU Sourceids at the time of going to press. Check here for the latest versions now. Support Summary here.
- For V9.2.0 LTS, Closed APARs (RSU2206)
- For V9.1.0 LTS, Closed APARs (RSU22026)
- For V9.0.0 LTS, Closed APARs
Handy IBM MQ Resources
If you want to read blog posts on IBM MQ subject matter, these resources are good places to follow. There are a great number of IBM MQ Experts that write in the IBM MQ Blogosphere.
- MQGem Blog
- Morag’s IBM MQ Blog on IMWUC
- IBM MQ Family Community Blog
- IBM Messaging Blog (now closed for new content)
- Roger’s Blog on MQ
- Lyn’s MQ for z/OS stories
- Mark Taylor’s Blog – Messaging, Music and Moving Around
- Colin Paice’s Blog
- Do You MQ Blog and
Podcasts - Niklas Ottosson’s Tech Blog
- Leif Davidsen’s Blog
- IBM Developer MQ area
- Demey Consulting Articles
- Store and Forward
- MrMQ Articles
Contact Information
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