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Sometimes is only takes a small step to change the world. But that small step is likely the outcome of a longer journey. The Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle states (roughly) you can either know where ...

Yes – the recently issued report , available here: “ IBM MQ for z/OS – Managed File Transfer Performance ” has already received a minor refresh! What’s new? The main reason for the minor refresh is ...

In part 1 of this series, “ Good Integration Patterns Never Die – You Just Add More ”, I described several challenges and identified a set of integration capabilities that solved these challenges. Toward ...

We sometimes hear confusion regarding the value of message-based technologies when there are API and Event solutions available. We also know that die-hard fans of MQ are sometimes caught up in similar ...

More and more people are signing up to IBM API Connect Reserved Instance. IBM API Connect Reserved Instance allows you to have all the benefits of API Connect while IBM manages the infrastructure so you ...

This is part of a series of small blog posts which will cover some of the smaller, perhaps less likely to be noticed, features of IBM MQ. Read other posts in this series . I asked the team during the ...

When I recently installed the IBM API Connect Developer Toolkit, I ran into some problems that I want to share in this blog to help prevent you from running into the same problems. Despite some of the ...

MQ Poison Messages & Backout Queues In this post Connor Smith and I will give a brief overview of Poison Messages, and how the various IBM MQ clients handle them and what you need to do as an application ...

“Flow Hopping” is the practice where you create a solution in IIB and you break it up into smaller message flows with some communication like MQ or SOAP calls as the connecting mechanism between the smaller ...

GatewayScript is a great addition to DataPower’s already extensive tool-box and it gives a wide variety of things we can do! For anyone not fully familiar with what GatewayScript is it a new scripting ...

Can I bring my own IBM App Connect custom server image? The answer is "yes you can!". But before that, you might be asking what an IBM App Connect image is and why you would ever want to customize ...

Want to create your own certs and secrets for API Connect? Feel free to use this..... I do :) This is a TEST tool, provided to help you quickly and easily generate all the certs that are required ...

Almost too many years ago to remember, I created the "WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Performance report", also known as FP11. The FP11 report provided information on the cost of managed file transfer ...

IT history can be told as a story of overcoming challenges. A constraint limits IT capability (e.g. processor speed, memory, storage, network, etc.) and then there is a step forward in IT technology to ...

MQ Uniform Cluster Scaling Example MQ Uniform Cluster, first introduced in V9.1.2 CD and rolled into 9.2 LTS enables capabilities to horizontally scale applications across a small set of similar horizontally ...

I write a number of little scripts every week and I am trying to share them more with the community. I have written a simple shell script that will run on each OVA of an API Connect cluster. This script ...

APIConnect internal and external certificates / end points explained. You might wonder how does APIConnect define and internal vs an external end point. In the documentation you will see examples ...

Welcome to the IBM Integration community! I’m Stephanie Wilkerson your community manager. I am so excited to work with you to build this community. We want this to become the definitive environment for ...

Welcome to the IBM Integration community, a collaborative community space for IBM Integration Users. We invite you to share your voice and take full advantage of the resources and expertise offered in ...

Many clients have been running IBM MQ within RedHat OpenShift for several years, one of the most frequent questions when a client starts is how to connect to the IBM MQ Queue Manager running within RedHat ...