| VOLUME IX. – No. 11. | THURSDAY, 30 NOVEMBER, 2023 | 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, QLOAD and MQMONA products, our IBM MQ training modules, and interesting articles about IBM MQ.
News
There are lots of celebrations going on for MQ’s 30th birthday. Some have already taken place by now, and some are coming up soon. All the details (including some photos from events that have already taken place) are linked from here.
MO71 x64 and MQEdit x64 have been running as a beta for the last month. These beta programs will be coming to an end very soon, and the 64-bit version of each will become the only download available.
There were a couple of webinars in the past month. If you missed them, there are replays available.
- Explore the new capabilities in Enterprise Messaging with the latest IBM MQ v9.3.4
- Simplifying IBM MQ Security in your MQ estate
Interesting IBM MQ links
Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.
Power of MQ for z/OS and What’s New in 9.3.4- MQ Appliance 9.3.4: SHA2 signature support for SSH certificates
- Is your Windows application 64-bit?
- Token based authentication (JWT) and IBM MQ
- Collection of articles and FAQs regarding IBM MQ Channels and Connections
- JSON Web Tokens in IBM MQ
- French MQ User Group: Réunion du 10 Novembre 2023
- Detecting RDQM kernel module compatibility issues (and how to fix them)
- The Facility of The IBM MQ Appliance
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 Orlando – March 2024
- GSE Nordic in Copenhagen, Denmark – June 2024
Upcoming online events
If you’re unable to get to any “in-person” events, then these online webcasts are just what you need.
- December 5th (9:00am EST) – Webinar: IBM MQ – What’s new? Celebrating 30 years of innovation – Speakers: Amy McCormick and David Ware
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.
- V9.3.0 LTS, Fix Pack 11 (CSU) (next 4Q 2023)
- V9.2.0 LTS, Fix Pack 20 (next 1Q 2024)
- V9.1.0 LTS, Fix Pack 18 (CSU) (next 1Q 2024)
This version will go EOS on 30th September 2023. See also - V9.0.0 LTS, Fix Pack 21 (CSU) (no plans).
This version went EOS on 30th September 2021. See also
Continuous Delivery (CD)
These are the currently supported CD releases.
- V9.3.4 CD (more info) download 19th Oct 2024
- V9.3.3 CD (more info) download 20th Jun 2024
- V9.3.3 CD, Fix Pack 1 (CSU)
- V9.3.2 CD (more info) download 16th Feb 2024
- V9.3.2 CD, Fix Pack 1 (CSU)
z/OS RSUs
These are the latest RSU Sourceids at the time of going to press. Check here for the latest versions now. Support Summary here.
- For V9.3.3 CD, (RSU2307)
- For V9.3.2 CD, (RSU2309)
- For V9.3.0 LTS, Closed APARs (RSU2309)
- For V9.2.0 LTS, Closed APARs (RSU2309)
- For V9.1.0 LTS, Closed APARs (RSU2206)
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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