What’s New
- Using the IBM z/OS Provisioning Toolkit to provision MQ and CICS 11 January 2017The IBM z/OS Provisioning Toolkit (zospt) V1.0 was made generally available on Jan 10th, 2017. zospt is a simple USS utility that can be used to drive z/OSMF workflows to provision z/OS middleware subsystems . For example, you can provision development MQ and... […]
- Scripting system management operations on the IBM MQ Appliance using the REST API 10 January 2017In a recent blog post one of my colleagues, James Robertson, discussed the new REST management interface on the IBM MQ Appliance, which was introduced in version 9.0.1. In his blog post (see related links below) he describes how to enable the REST API and use... […]
- Bridging from MQ into Message Hub in IBM Bluemix 9 January 2017We’re making some changes to how you can connect your MQ queue managers to cloud services in IBM Bluemix. It will take some time before the work is complete, but see Andrew Schofield’s post for a peek into what’s coming up. […]
- Migration to 9.0.1 including queue manager backup / restore 9 January 2017While performing different MQ Appliance maintenance tasks, it is often required to have an option allowing to create a backup of a queue manager. This may be a part of existing company policy of regular backups of critical data/configuration. Or it may be... […]
- Automatic queue manager start-up 6 January 2017Before introduction of MQ Appliance version 9.0.1, it was required to manually start all queue managers which are not configured for high availability after every restart of appliance. Although restart of appliance is deemed a rare operation on a production... […]