| VOLUME VIII. – No. 9. | FRIDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER, 2022 | PRICE: FREE |
Welcome to the September 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
A minor update to MQEdit was released this month providing two features that help to reduce the number of Command Not Auth events and errors that are generated.
- A queue prefix can be supplied, so instead of retrieving the whole list of queues, the MQEdit user can only retrieve a subset starting with the provided prefix.
- An option to use Inquire Queue Names instead of Inquire Queues is provided. This means no Command Not Auth events and errors are generated, but does mean that the current depth of queues cannot be shown in the list, and that temporary dynamic queues cannot be excluded.
A new version of MO71 was released with two customer requested features.
- Prompt for KDB passwords – read more here.
- Option to export in MQSC on one-line, rather than over multiple lines.
Interesting IBM MQ links
Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.
- Authenticating to the IBM MQ Console with the openidConnectClient feature – Part 2
MQ Automated Deployment to Openshift- Product lifecycle details for IBM MQ V9.1.x
- IBM MQ Little Gem #55: Authority reporting for Display Commands
- IBM MQ Replicated Data Queue Manager Kernel Modules
- Better Together: MQ & Event Streams
- Streaming (or Screaming?) Queues
- MQ for z/OS on IBM z16 – What performance benefits might you see?
- IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.3.0.1 Released
- IBM MQ Appliance 9.3.0.1 firmware is available (M2002 and M2003)
- What’s new in MQ 9.3?
- Write and run serverless MQ applications in Azure
- Lifecycle dates for IBM DataPower and IBM MQ appliances
- MQ Migrations
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 UK Conference – 1-3 November 2022
- Middleware Mash-Up 2 November 2022
- IBM Integration User Group UK – 8 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.
- November 2nd (10:00am EDT) – Webinar: Enhancing your business with the IBM MQ family – Speakers: Amy McCormick and Leif Davidsen
Product Info
This months highlighted product information is a video which introduces the MO71 product.
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, Fix Pack 1 (next 4Q 2022)
- For V9.2.0 LTS, Fix Pack 6 (next 4Q 2022)
- For V9.1.0 LTS, Fix Pack 11 (next 4Q 2022)
This version will go EOS on 30th September 2023. See also - 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 V9.3.0 LTS, Closed APARs
- For V9.2.0 LTS, Closed APARs (RSU2206)
- For V9.1.0 LTS, Closed APARs (RSU2206)
- For V9.0.0 LTS, Closed APARs
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
- IBM Support @IBMSupport
- IBM Cloud @IBMCloud
- 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 Community @IBMCommunity
- MQ Fan @IBMMQFan
- Colin Paice @ColinPaiceMQ
- Kazumichi Hatakeyama @KHatakeyama
- Capitalware Inc. @Capitalware
- TxMQ, Inc. @TxMQITSolutions
- Avada Software @AvadaSoftware
- OpenLogix @openlogix
Contact Information
MQGem hopes you are enjoying the last remnants of summer as we look to autumn"s arrival. We’d love to hear from you. Get in touch by email or follow us on one of our social media channels.
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