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MQGem Monthly (April 2024)

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VOLUME X. – No. 4. TUESDAY, 30 APRIL, 2024  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, QLOAD and MQMONA products, our IBM MQ training modules, and interesting articles about IBM MQ.

News

If you missed the GSE UK Virtual conference last month where Morag presented a session on IBM MQ Accounting and Statistics, you can read the handout here.

IBM Announced the End of Service for IBM MQ V9.2, effective 30 September 2025. Read the announcement 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 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 RSUs

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 2024)

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VOLUME X. – No. 3. THURSDAY, 28 MARCH, 2024  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, QLOAD and MQMONA products, our IBM MQ training modules, and interesting articles about IBM MQ.

News

A new version of MQEdit, V9.3.3, is now available. Read all about the new features in this release here.

Just in case you missed it last month, as it was a very late (post-publish) entry in our newsletter, IBM MQ V9.3.5 was made available at the very end of February.

The GSE UK Virtual conference is coming up in late April. Morag will be presenting one session at that conference. See the session details here and the full conference agenda in the section later on.

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 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 RSUs

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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MQGem Monthly (February 2024)

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VOLUME X. – No. 2. THURSDAY, 29 FEBRUARY, 2024  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, QLOAD and MQMONA products, our IBM MQ training modules, and interesting articles about IBM MQ.

News

A new version of MO71, V9.3.3, is now available. Read all about the new features in this release here.

UPDATE: Hours after we went to press, IBM MQ V9.3.5 was made available – thought that was worth an update!

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 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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

Contact Information

MQGem wishes you a Happy Leap 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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MO71 Console

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The MO71 Console is a list dialog in MO71 which shows notifications from various different sources in a single place. You might consider putting the webpage version of the MO71 Console on a computer monitor or Smart TV that everyone in your admin area can see, and ensuring everyone knows to keep an eye out for items that appear and need to be handled.

The MO71 Console showing a few different entries

The fields/columns available to show in the MO71 Console are:

Field Name Notes New in
MO71 V9.3.3
Priority

Values of

  • Info
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
Queue Manager The queue manager for which the notification was raised. Some notifications will not have a value in this field, such as the “MO71 Started” notification.
Location The location name of the queue manager
Category New in MO71 V9.3.3, this field can help you when filtering console entries ✔
Type The type is broader than the category, for example, MQEV Alerts is a type which can have many different categories.
Text New in MO71 V9.3.3, some descriptive text about the console entry. ✔
Object Name Where relevant, the name of the object the notification is about. This can also include application names.
Date The date and time the notification was raised
Time
Date/Time
MQEV Alert Id New in MO71 V9.3.3, this is added to the console entry so that you can double click on it to view the full MQEV Alert, and from there, if need be, view the event that caused the alert to be generated. ✔

Sources that feed into the MO71 Console are as follows:

MO71 itself

The MO71 program itself puts a few things into the Console. You can see examples of these in the screenshot above.

  • MO71 Started
  • MO71 Licensing reminders (new in MO71 V9.3.3)

Queue manager availability monitoring

If you are monitoring your queue manager availability from the “Monitoring” tab on the location dialog, you can choose to report the success or otherwise of this in the MO71 Console. To do so, select the “Log Console” option.

Enable QM Monitor reports on the console from your Location dialog

N.B. You can also choose to log successful QM monitor results to the console with the preference option “Location ‘Log Console’ includes successful QM Monitor” which can be found on the Connection tab of the Preferences dialog. If you don’t utilise this, successful monitors simply remove the console entry reporting the prior failed monitor for that queue manager.

Application Errors

If you are collecting information about your running MQ applications, and have rules defined to indicate the minimum and maximum number of each application connection that is expected to be running, then situations found outside of this range can be reported to the MO71 Console. To enable this, select the “Application error reflected on console” preference option (found on the Applications tab of the Preferences dialog).

You can reflect Application Monitoring errors on the MO71 Console

MQEV Alerts

New in MO71 V9.3.3, MQEV Alerts can be collected and displayed on the MO71 Console. To enable this, select an “MQEV Alert Console Level” higher than “None” on your queue manager location dialog.

A number of new fields have been added to the notifications shown in the MO71 Console to accommodate the important parts of an MQEV Alert. These are noted in the table at the start of this post.

Enable MQEV Alerts to be reported in the Console from your Location Dialog

The MQEV alerts shown in the above screenshot are those described in the blog post Are you using any back-level clients?. Read it for more details on creating alerts with MQEV.

Filter Function

You can run a filter on any MO71 List dialog, and this filter can detect anomalies and write notifications to the MO71 Console using the csl() filter function. This function has been enhanced in MO71 V9.3.3 to include the new fields. In the screenshot below the following filter has been applied to a queue list.

csl(curdepth > 100,medium,2224,"QDEPTH","!Deep queue - depth = " + str$(curdepth))

Write to the MO71 console from any filter

A few notes about each parameter:

  1. The first parameter is a Boolean expression to determine whether the console entry will be added or removed
  2. The second parameter is the priority of the console entry
  3. Then we have an error code, in this example 2224 is MQRC_Q_DEPTH_HIGH, or a short string that represents the error
  4. Then we have a new parameter available in MO71 V9.3.3, a category. This may help when sorting your console list to group related entries together, if you choose to use it.
  5. The last parameter is also new in MO71 V9.3.3, a text string with more detail about your console entry. Since this is longer and more detailed than the error code/string, it might not be identical when you try to replace a console entry with a new one – e.g. the depth is still high, but has a slightly different number of message. The ‘!’ character on the front indicates that this entry can replace a previous one without the text string having to match.

MO71 User supplied notifications

Added in MO71 V9.1.2, we provide a small executable program, mo71event.exe that will put a simple PCF message to write a notification to the MO71 Console. This has been enhanced in MO71 V9.3.3 to include the new fields.

mo71event -m MQG1 -e USEREVENTQ -p MED -o APP.CUS.CREATE.QUEUE -c CUSTOMER -a "Something went wrong!"

Send an MO71 User event from anywhere to put an entry on the Console

MO71 Basic Event processing

Before MQEV was created, MO71 had some basic event message processing built into it. This could write the events that were found to the MO71 Console and remove them again when a matching “good” event happened, e.g. Channel Stopped vs Channel Started, or Queue High vs Queue Low.

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 (January 2024)

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VOLUME X. – No. 1. TUESDAY, 30 JANUARY, 2024  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, QLOAD and MQMONA products, our IBM MQ training modules, and interesting articles about IBM MQ.

News

A quiet month for news and blog posts. We hope that everyone had a great time over the holiday period.

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 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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

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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MQGem Monthly (December 2023)

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VOLUME IX. – No. 12. THURSDAY, 28 DECEMBER, 2023  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, QLOAD and MQMONA 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.

MQ celebrated it’s 30th birthday this month. A collection of related resources can be perused here.

QLOAD shipped a minor update to provide additional information in its summary display.

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 which introduces 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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

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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MQGem Monthly (November 2023)

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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.

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 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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

Contact Information

MQGem hopes you have a great holiday season, have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? 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 (October 2023)

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VOLUME IX. – No. 10. MONDAY, 30 OCTOBER, 2023  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, QLOAD and MQMONA products, our IBM MQ training modules, and interesting articles about IBM MQ.

News

A new Continuous Delivery release of IBM MQ, V9.3.4, was made available this month. Learn more about the new release here.

MO71 and MQEV have had minor updates to ensure they handle the new command level as normal.

MQEdit x64 is now available as a Beta download. Please download and try it out – more details here.

UPDATE: MO71 x64 is also now available as a Beta download. More details 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 an introductory video about 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 RSUs

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 Spooky Halloween. 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 (September 2023)

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VOLUME IX. – No. 9. THURSDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER, 2023  PRICE: FREE

Welcome to the September 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

A minor update was recently made to QLOAD to improve your experience importing data from non-QLOAD files onto queues. Read more about this minor update here.

A minor update was also recently made to Q to add in the ability to zero out a group ID in a message you are moving from one queue to another.

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 API Exerciser 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 RSUs

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 are enjoying the last remnants of summer as we look to autumn's arrival. 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 (August 2023)

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VOLUME IX. – No. 8. THURSDAY, 31 AUGUST, 2023  PRICE: FREE

Welcome to the August 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

A new version of MQSCX, V9.3.2, is now available with a number of new features to allow you to manipulate your MQSC DISPLAY command output. Read more about all these features 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 which introduces the MQSCX 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.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

These are the currently supported CD releases.

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.

Contact Information

MQGem hopes you have had a great summer. 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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