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MQ 10 for z/OS has additional fields in its SMF data. While useful, they brought challenges to the mqsmfcsv program that a number of people use for formatting and then analysing MQ SMF records.
This post was last updated on July 1st, 2026 at 08:41 am
The standard package manager for Node.js applications, npm, is changing. New npm installation policies may affect how you obtain and install some Node.js components.
What is happening? How does it affect MQ? What will you need to do?
Continue reading “New NPM installation policies”This post was last updated on June 26th, 2026 at 11:57 am
MQ 10 is now generally available. I thought it might be useful to give an update on some of the various application interfaces that many developers use for their programs.
Continue reading “MQ 10: Application Interfaces”This post was last updated on June 22nd, 2026 at 09:55 am
Spring Boot 3 is about to reach its “end of non-commercial support”. What does that mean for MQ’s support of the Spring Boot environment?
Continue reading “EoL: MQ with Spring Boot 3”This post was last updated on June 16th, 2026 at 10:51 am
Previous articles in this series have shown OpenTelemetry (OTel) Context propagation for MQ applications in different languages.
This article is rather different. It shows the results of experiments I made with adding OTel tracing to the IBM MQ Kafka Connectors.
Continue reading “OTel Context Propagation: part 6 – MQ Kafka Connectors”This post was last updated on May 11th, 2026 at 03:55 pm
Previous articles in this series have shown OpenTelemetry (OTel) Context propagation for MQ applications in different languages. You should read the first article for an introduction and explanation of the scenarios and problems that need solutions.
This entry has a couple of additional observations I had when trying different configurations with the MQ Tracing Exit (the Instana-developed component) that’s part of the MQ product.
Continue reading “OTel Context Propagation: part 5 – Notes on the MQ Tracing Exit”Previous articles in this series have shown OpenTelemetry (OTel) Context propagation for Node.js, Go, Java and C/C++ MQ applications. You should read the first article for an introduction and explanation of the scenarios and problems that need solutions.
This entry discusses Python MQ applications.
Continue reading “OTel Context Propagation for MQ Applications: part 4 – Python”I saw this article a couple of days ago about the end-of-life for HP-UX. While MQ has not produced a new version for that operating system for a number of years (the last release was 9.0, around 2017), it’s still a bit sad to see.
Continue reading “End of a platform”This post was last updated on January 8th, 2026 at 09:06 am
The sample monitoring packages here use a variety of techniques to collect metrics from the queue manager. The most recent release (v5.7.0) adds a further alternative approach.
Continue reading “MQ Monitoring: using queue manager STATISTICS events”The first pre-release version of Spring Boot 4 (milestone 1) has just been published. What does it mean for MQ’s support of the Spring Boot environment?
Continue reading “MQ with Spring Boot 4”This post was last updated on August 27th, 2025 at 09:05 am
