Hi Norbert,
> I agree that exits are no solution, think about appliances.
Personally, I think an exit is exactly what the solution calls for since I seriously doubt IBM will ever add that feature.
For more than 5 years, I have begged, pleaded and talked the ear off anyone from IBM MQ UK Labs about adding an App Store for the MQ Appliance but management has the basic reply of "customers are not asking for it". It is such a lame answer. I get asked every couple of months by customers if product "XYZ" will work on an MQ Appliance, so I know there is demand!! It sucks because I have to keep saying no.
IBM already includes other IBM software (other than MQ) for the MQ Appliance. What is wrong with following the pattern that Apple and Google set for their App Stores? Charge 3rd party vendors, aka developers, a nominal fee, i.e. $100, and provide a portal to submit the applications (aka exits). The software would then be included in the next MQ appliance build and the end-users can select what software they want to use. Licensing would be handled by the vendor and not IBM.
The weird part of this is that when companies are using an exit (Capitalware or someone else) and use a mix of MQ on their own servers and MQ Appliances, then it forces customers to have 2 totally different ways of handling the solutions they are implementing. And most of the time, there is no solution for the MQ Appliance, hence, they use the MQ Appliance with that particular which is not very customer-focused. IMHO.
One can only hope that 1 day IBM will listen and create an App Store for the MQ Appliance. I know it will make some customers very happy (and vendors too).
later
Roger
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Roger Lacroix
CTO
Capitalware Inc.
London ON
226-980-7307
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu October 14, 2021 06:13 AM
From: Norbert Pfister
Subject: Stop Apps from using older version of MQ Client
This is also an issue in our company / infrastructure.
We have bunch of different client types and versions.
I agree that exits are no solution, think about appliances.
In my opinion IBM needs to create some CHLAUTH commands for preventing those connections.
And this requires an RfE...
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Norbert Pfister
system engineer
Nuremberg
Germany
Original Message:
Sent: Thu September 23, 2021 12:35 PM
From: om prakash
Subject: Stop Apps from using older version of MQ Client
Is there a way to prevent an application using MQ 7/8/9.0 client jars from connecting to Queue Manager.
Not interested in writing/using security exits at the channel.
Or is there a subscription topic string we can collect and scan thru? Using $SYS/... option?
Currently, we collect channel status and get the MQ Client version, but this is a poll and we are missing data collection.
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om prakash
WI
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