| VOLUME VIII. – No. 11. | TUESDAY, 29 NOVEMBER, 2022 | PRICE: FREE |
Welcome to the November 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 quiet month for news this month. However, still quite a few articles to read.
If you missed the webinar that ran in November, you can catch the replay here:
- Webinar: Enhancing your business with the IBM MQ family – Speakers: Leif Davidsen and Marcus Kaye
Interesting IBM MQ links
Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.
- IBM MQ .NET 6 API’s
- Configure WebSphere Liberty application to put a message into an IBM MQ cluster queue
- Deprecated features in 9.3.0 LTS: 32-bit client libraries and weak AMS ciphers
- Using Topic-To-Queue Pattern in a Uniform Cluster
MQ-Ansible | Automate Your MQ Deployment- Middleware Mash-Up 2022 User Group Event Recap: Modernize and Optimize Your IBM MQ Environment
- Deploying IBM Cloud Pak for integration on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Monitoring MQ with Instana- Support for shared streaming queues addded to MQ for z/OS
- What’s new in MQ for z/OS 9.3.1 – SMF Queue statistics enhancements
- Snippet 3 – Converting between MQRFH2 and properties
- Introduction to MQ-Ansible
- Seeing is believing with the latest updates to IBM Integration including Cloud Pak for Integration 2022.4.1 and MQ V9.3.1
- Authenticating to IBM MQ using TLS certificates
- Testing MQ With JMeter
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.
- SHARE Atlanta – March 2023
- GSE Nordic in Oslo, Norway – late May 2023
Product Info
This months highlighted product information is a video showing how to simplify the MO71 GUI interface.
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 7 (next 1Q 2023)
- 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 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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