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IBM has just announced MQ 9.2.4. No matter how hard you search the announcement letters you will still not be able to find anything about the event formatter changes that I was able to slip into the release. That’s because changes to samples don’t normally deserve highlighting in formal marketing documents. But I hope this change still turns out to be useful.
Continue reading “Event formatter changes with MQ 9.2.4”This post was last updated on November 24th, 2021 at 01:12 pm
MQ Application Activity reports have a lot of detail. This post shows a simple way to extract key fields for simpler processing.
Application Activity Trace is a mechanism on the MQ Distributed platforms that give a report of all the MQI calls made by a program. Originally configured via a text file, MQ V9 enhanced them by allowing a monitoring application to subscribe to topics that describe the application or channel of interest.
See how to extract key fields from events
This post was last updated on November 25th, 2019 at 09:45 am
IBM MQ has always been able to generate event messages when something “interesting” has occurred in the queue manager. These events could be showing that a queue is full, or that there has been an authorisation failure; someone needing an audit trail might want to capture the command and configuration events. These events are written as MQ messages to well-known queues, using PCF structures which can be decoded to give the full description of the event.
See how these events can now be fed to JSON-aware processors
This post was last updated on November 22nd, 2019 at 09:08 pm
This article is going to talk about some new code shipped with the V8.0.0.4 FixPack to make it easier to see what a queue manager is doing, simplify investigation of possible problems, and to assist with writing your own MQ applications. Formatting MQ Events is now available as part of the MQ product.
To start with, we need to talk a little about MQ’s event generation.
Continue reading “MQ 8.0.0.4 Events and MQI Formatting”
This post was last updated on November 20th, 2019 at 09:31 pm
