| VOLUME VIII. – No. 10. | MONDAY, 31 OCTOBER, 2022 | PRICE: FREE |
Welcome to the October 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 Software turns 10 years old this month! It’s been an enjoyable decade with many interesting challenges. We would like to extend our thanks to the many MQGem customers around the world for their continued support, and helpful suggestions. We look forward to many more exciting developments in the years to come.
IBM released the latest continuous delivery release of IBM MQ, V9.3.1. Read all about it here.
Updates have been released to MQEV, MQSCX and MO71 to support the new command level.
In addition to supporting command level 931, the new release of MQSCX also provides some new features:-
- New comand =count to control what is counted towards summary report on success/failure. Read more here.
- New built-in function trimstr to remove blanks (or other characters) from strings
- New built-in function attrstr to pluck out a complete attribute+value string from a response string (or any other string). Read more about these two here.
- Provision to use Message Compression (compmsg) and Header Compression (comphdr) on =conn command
Interesting IBM MQ links
Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.
- MQGET counts
- SMF 115 v9.3.0.0 Blog Post
- Snippet 1 – Building an MQRFH2
- Snippet 2 – Basic MQ Queue Rate monitoring
ByteSize Q3 2022- Queue Managers now have a 64-Bit RBA by default
- Using CCDT in WebSphere Liberty to connect with MQ queue manager
- Install IBM MQ 9.2 + Fix Pack 9.2.0.6 + HA RDQM
- IBM MQ, IBM MQ for z/OS and IBM MQ Appliance firmware 9.3.1 Continuous Delivery releases are available
- MQ 9.3 on z/OS
- IBM MQ MFT Agent in container – New version published
- Making CAPEXPRY a first-class MQSC attribute in MQ 9.3.1
- Changes to IBM MQ's maintenance delivery model
- Quickly convert CUSTOM CAPEXPRY
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: Leif Davidsen and Marcus Kaye
Product Info
This months highlighted product information is a video which shows you how to export IBM MQ definitions using 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 12 (next 2Q 2023)
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.
- V9.3.1 CD (more info) download 20th Oct 2023
- 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 (RSU2209)
- For V9.2.0 LTS, Closed APARs (RSU2209)
- For V9.1.0 LTS, Closed APARs (RSU2206)
- For V9.0.0 LTS, Closed APARs
Handy IBM MQ Resources
If you have a question about IBM MQ that you can’t find the answer to, these resources are good places to ask your question.
Contact Information
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