To simplify operational monitoring and alerting on Red Hat OpenShift the IBM MQ Certified Container that is delivered in Cloud Pak for Integration emits a range of queue manager (server) scope metrics using a Prometheus interface that is consumed by the OpenShift monitoring tools. Alongside...
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On April 27th & 28th, experts from IBM and other industry leaders are teaming up to fill in the information gap around the modernization of messaging & integration architecture. This free online event fills-in that gap with insight not available at any other event. World-leading...
I have had a few questions recently about applications using client mode on z/OS. I have written about this topic before, on the old MQ blog, which is no longer accessible, so here is the information again! Before we go into the details, lets get a couple of bits of terminology defined. MQ...
Modern applications that are built and run using containers provide significant benefits in terms of development and operational agility, however developers that are new to this space can find building containerized applications daunting compared to more familiar techniques as there a range of...
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 that the difference in performance for text file transfers from Unix System Service files was...
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 the end of the article, this question was posed: …we identified the following...
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 when the source and/or destination transfer agents were hosted on z/OS, as well as...
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 break through the constraint and move forward. Until we hit the next constraint. Then –...
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 scaled queue managers. Applications can be moved as necessary by the cluster to...
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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 OpenShift from outside of the Kubernetes environment. New users are often concerned that it...