Each month, the MQGem Newsletter will highlight resources from one of the following sections. If you know of useful resources that should be added to these lists, please leave a comment below.
Forums
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.
Blogs (and Podcasts)
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. If you want to see at a glance whether there are any new posts, a separate (rather slow to load) version of this list which includes an RSS feed of the latest post in each can be viewed here.
- 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
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 (replaced Cloud Tech Support @IBM_CTS on June 26th 2020 (replaced WebSphere MQ Support @IBM_WMQ on June 30th 2016))
- IBM Cloud @IBMCloud (subsumed IBM Integration @IBMMIntegration in Sept 2019 (subsumed IBM Messaging @IBMMessaging in May 2017))
- 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 (replaced IBM User Community @IBMMiddleWareUC 16 May 2020 (replaced WebSphere User Group @websphereorg at the start of 2016))
- MQ Fan @IBMMQFan
- Colin Paice @ColinPaiceMQ
- Kazumichi Hatakeyama @KHatakeyama
- Capitalware Inc. @Capitalware
- TxMQ, Inc. @TxMQITSolutions
- Avada Software @AvadaSoftware
- OpenLogix @openlogix
Other Useful Links
Here we have collected a number of other useful links that don’t fit into the categories above.
- IBM MQ Advanced for Developers (download links)
These links use the “ibm.biz” shortcut URLs which should be updated to the latest version soon after a new release of the product by IBM. - Windows
- Linux x86-64
- Ubuntu x86-64
- Raspberry Pi (as-is, see the readme)
- Quick Reference Cards for MQ
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