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MQGem Monthly (May 2023)

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VOLUME IX. – No. 5. WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY, 2023  PRICE: FREE

Welcome to the May 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

IBM announced MQ V9.3.3 on Distributed platforms this month to be generally available on June 20th. There is also a statement of direction saying that IBM intends to make V9.3.3 available on z/OS.

This month we uploaded a series of 10 short videos (~3 minutes) about different facets of the MQGem product, MQEV. Read more here and watch the first in the series from our featured video section in this newsletter.

Interesting IBM MQ links

Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.

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.

Product Info

This months highlighted product information is a video showing how to collect MQ events with MQEV.

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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

Contact Information

MQGem hopes you're following lots of IBM MQ blogs. 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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MQEV Facet Videos

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We just uploaded a small selection of short videos about different facets of the MQGem product, MQEV.

We’ll be sharing one of these each Friday in the coming weeks, using the #FacetFriday tag (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn), but if you’d prefer to binge watch them on your own schedule, they can all be found in the MQEV Playlist of our YouTube Channel.

Here’s the first one you get you started:-

If you don’t have a licence and would like to try out MQEV then send an email to support@mqgem.com and a free, no-obligation, 1-month trial licence will be sent to you.

MQGem Monthly (April 2023)

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VOLUME IX. – No. 4. FRIDAY, 28 APRIL, 2023  PRICE: FREE

Welcome to the April 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

We are pleased to announce a new Gem for you – the MQMONA Command Server Agent for IBM MQ. Some of you that have been using MO71 for many years may remember it. It’s free to use with your existing MO71 and/or MQSCX licences, so take a look and see whether it will bring some relief to any slow environments you connect to.

We also released a minor update to MO71 with some customer requested en­hancements to exporting your MQ objects.

If you missed IBM TechCon 2023 you may be interested to watch some of the sessions recordings. A set of links for the MQ sessions can be found here.

Interesting IBM MQ links

Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.

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.

Upcoming online events

If you’re unable to get to any “in-person” events, then these online webcasts are just what you need.

Product Info

This months highlighted product information is a video showing basic editing using MQEdit.

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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

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

MQGem hopes the Spring weather is being good to you. 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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MQGem Monthly (March 2023)

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VOLUME IX. – No. 3. THURSDAY, 30 MARCH, 2023  PRICE: FREE

Welcome to the March 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

Earlier this month, a new version of MO71, V9.3.1, was released. Read all about it here.

If you missed the virtual conference IBM TechCon 2023, you can still watch the recordings of the sessions here.

Interesting IBM MQ links

Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.

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.

Product Info

This months highlighted product information is a video showing the powerful filtering provided by MQSCX.

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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

Contact Information

MQGem wishes you a Happy Easter. 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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MO71 version 9.3.1 is released

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MQGem Software is pleased to announce that a new version of MO71, our GUI Administrative tool for IBM MQ, is now available.

The main features of the release are as follows:-

List Dialog Pie Charts

The ubiquitous list dialog, available for all objects and status displays, with its fully configurable column displays and row filters, can now also show you any of its columns as a pie chart. Sometimes a picture is a better way of understanding the set of data in front of you, and you now have this option in a list dialog. More details about this can be read here.

IBM MQ Connection identification

DISPLAY CONN is a very useful command, but one of its downsides it that to fully identify the MQ connection, you have to look at a number of fields. MO71 now has a constructed field, Connection Owner, which combines the variety of fields that fully identify the MQ connection to allow you to view only a single field for this purpose. More details can be read about this here.

Pre-Defined Graphs

You have been able to have your favourite MO71 list dialogs, with all their columns, colours, and filters saved away for quick invocation for many years. With this release, you can now also save graphs and have those ready to show with ease, when you need them. In fact you can also combine your pre-defined graphs and pre-defined list dialogs into groups and start them all together with one click from a queue manager context menu. More details about this can be read here.

Start groups of graphs and/or dialog lists from your queue manager context menu

New Pre-defined list dialog types

Missing in previous releases, the following list dialogs can now be created as pre-defined dialogs.

  • Listeners and Listener Status
  • Services and Service Status

Application Activity Trace improvements

Enhancements to help you navigate through your application activity trace have been added to the MO71 viewer, allowing you to easily jump to linked API calls, such as the MQOPEN of the object handle when you are looking at an MQPUT call, or the next API call made by this Pid+Tid, or on this object. You can also set a Bookmark to return to, and, having jumped around following linked API calls, you can undo back to where you were.

The Application Activity Trace viewer also gets a new tab for graphing. You can show a graph of the API calls in your trace, and find, say, the busy point, and then from there jump back into the API viewer at that point in the trace.

We have a blog post focused on this here.

Graph your Application Activity Trace data to help navigate it

General Graphing improvements

MO71 uses graphing in a number of places (including some new ones this release).

  • Monitor→Graph
  • Application Activity Trace (new this release)
  • Trace Message Pie Chart
  • List Dialogs Pie Chart (new this release)

In this release a number of improvements have been made to the graphing used in all those places. You now have more line types, with the addition of 3D columns, and more stacked column options, and more control over the way the graph looks, with colour selection on axis and grid lines. A default set of colours can be set in your preferences, so graphs start off using colours you want saving you from having to set all the colours every time.

Graphs can now have a logarithmic Y axis, rather than just linear, which can make relative changes across a wide range of values much easier to see. Pie charts have a number of extra options on display of both the labels and the legend, and a new concept called “Other” where the small slivers of a pie chart can be combined to keep it from looking messy.

More details about this can be read here.

Config File – Old Version saved

We have always recommended that when you move to a new version of MO71 that you take a back-up of your configuration file, MQMON.CFG, in case you need to revert to the old version. There is no guarantee that an older version of MO71 will be able to correctly read configuration that was invented after it was released. In case you don’t though, MO71 will now take a copy for you just in case. When you move to MO71 V9.3.1 for the first time, you will discover that MO71 has written out a file called MQMON_930.CFG which is the configuration as it was when you were running MO71 V9.3.0.

Master Config File in XML

MO71 can be started with a master configuration file, allowing central administration of queue manager connection details, while allowing individual users the freedom to choose their own colour schemes etc by having their own configuration file. You can read more about this here. By customer request, this has been enhanced to allow the master configuration file to be an XML file with the same format we already allow you to import manually, i.e. that used by MQ Explorer.

The new version can be downloaded from the MO71 Download Page. Any current licensed users of MO71 can run the new version on their existing licence. If you don’t have a licence and would like to try out MO71 then send an email to support@mqgem.com and a 1-month trial licence will be sent to you.

MQGem Monthly (February 2023)

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VOLUME IX. – No. 2. TUESDAY, 28 FEBRUARY, 2023  PRICE: FREE

Welcome to the February 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

IBM released the latest continuous delivery release of IBM MQ, V9.3.2. Read all about it here.

Updates have been released to MO71, MQEV and MQSCX to support the new command level.

Two new functions were also added to MQSCX, random() and seedrand().

Interesting IBM MQ links

Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.

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.

Upcoming online events

If you’re unable to get to any “in-person” events, then these online webcasts are just what you need.

Product Info

This months highlighted product information is a video showing the Web Access capabilities of MO71.

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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

Contact Information

MQGem hopes you had a great Valentine's Day. 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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IBM MQ and MQ Appliance News – February 2023

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On Thursday February 16th, IBM Hursley released the next in the series of Continuous Delivery releases for IBM MQ V9.3 and the MQ Appliance, IBM MQ V9.3.2. The z/OS version of the same will be available on March 3rd.

Downloading IBM MQ Version 9.3.2

Here is the announcement letter:-

Links of interest:-

We’ll collect up any other links about the new release as we find them and put them all here.

MQGem Monthly (January 2023)

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VOLUME IX. – No. 1. MONDAY, 30 JANUARY, 2023  PRICE: FREE

Welcome to the January 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

Earlier this month, a new version of MQEdit, V9.3.1, was released.

MQGem Training now has two new courses on offer allowing you to learn about the new features in the IBM MQ LTS releases V9.2.0 and V9.3.0 (and all the CD releases that were rolled up into those).

MO71 had a minor update mid-month with a customer requested feature enhancing the Trace Message dialog. Now you can click through to see objects, and copy and paste their names from the diagram MO71 draws.

Interesting IBM MQ links

Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.

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.

Product Info

This months highlighted product information is a video showing how to use the very powerful filters provided in MO71.

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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

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

MQGem wishes you a Happy and Prosperous New Year. 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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New training modules: What’s New in IBM MQ V9.2.0 and V9.3.0

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MQGem is pleased to announce the availability of two new intermediate training modules covering all the new features in IBM MQ V9.2.0 and IBM MQ V9.3.0.

Each training module has the same aim; to take you through all the features that make up the LTS release, which includes the features in the preceding CD releases that were rolled up into the LTS release.

The two new modules are named:

  • MQG-201-91 – What’s New in IBM MQ up to V9.2.0
  • MQG-201-92 – What’s New in IBM MQ up to V9.3.0

Platform Coverage: Both modules provide instructions for IBM MQ on Unix, Windows and z/OS, but not yet for IBM i.
Module Duration: It is expected that each module will take you around 6 – 10 hours to complete.

Full details of what is covered in each module can be reviewed in our training brochure.

If you haven’t tried an MQGem training module before, you can try out our “MQG-101-00: First steps with IBM MQ” module for FREE. This module is freely available for two reasons:-

  • To allow you to try out an MQGem training module and see what the format is like
  • To teach you pre-requisite skills for managing IBM MQ, so that other modules can rely upon you having those skills

If you like the format, why not sign up to learn about IBM MQ V9.3.0. Our training modules are great value for money, providing training in IBM MQ from an expert in the product, for a fraction of the cost of classroom based training.

Sign up for some MQ training today by contacting us at learn@mqgem.com.

MQGem Monthly (December 2022)

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VOLUME VIII. – No. 12. FRIDAY, 30 DECEMBER, 2022  PRICE: FREE

Welcome to the December 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

It’s somewhat traditional at the end of the year to take a look back at all the things that have happened. Read ours here.

Interesting IBM MQ links

Here are a few links that caught our eye this month.

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.

Upcoming online events

If you’re unable to get to any “in-person” events, then these online webcasts are just what you need.

Product Info

This months highlighted product information is a video showing how to use Trace Message in MO71.

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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

Contact Information

MQGem wishes you a Happy and Prosperous New Year. 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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