IBM MQ 9.4.5: A practical upgrade for teams modernizing MQ (without breaking what already works) IBM MQ has a reputation for doing the unglamorous job extremely well: moving important data, exactly once, across messy enterprise realities. The IBM MQ 9.4.5 announcement (published February 3, 2026) signals something important about where MQ is headed next: more [...]
Mainframe Middleware Monitoring: How to Break the Silo Modern dashboards often miss mainframe issues, causing "green light" confusion when users can't transact. The solution isn't expensive agents or forcing Mainframe Sysprogs to use cloud tools. To fix this, you need agentless monitoring that unifies data from middleware running on z/OS into your existing SRE dashboards. [...]
A Smarter Way to Handle Message Data: Understanding Context Trees in IBM App Connect Enterprise As integration environments grow more complex, developers face a recurring challenge in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE): how to efficiently access, track, and reuse message data as it flows through multiple nodes — or even nested subflows — without [...]
IBM MQ vulnerability to Slowloris attack: What Your Team Can Do About It The recently disclosed MQ vulnerability to Slowloris attack (CVE-2025-36128) is a reminder that even mature messaging platforms like IBM MQ can be impacted by classic web-layer denial-of-service techniques. IBM’s security bulletin confirms that certain IBM MQ components are susceptible to a Slowloris-style [...]
Smarter Than Scripts: How Intelligent Automation Transforms IBM MQ Administration For decades, IBM MQ administrators have relied on scripts to automate routine tasks — from clearing queues and restarting channels to handling messages stuck in the Dead Letter Queue. These scripts were once the backbone of efficiency. But as MQ environments have grown more [...]
What’s New in the IBM MQ 9.4.3 Release — and How Infrared360 Helps You Maximize It The IBM MQ 9.4.3 release is the third Continuous Delivery (CD) release in the 9.4 Long Term Support (LTS) stream, continues to evolve to meet the needs of modern, hybrid messaging environments. Officially announced on June 10 and [...]
How the IBM MQ Kafka Connector Works The IBM MQ - Kafka Connector is a powerful tool designed to bridge the capabilities of IBM MQ and Apache Kafka, enabling seamless data flow between these two industry-leading systems. Whether you need to pull data from IBM MQ into Kafka or push Kafka events back into [...]
Proactive Middleware Health Monitoring: The Key to Maintaining a Resilient IT Environment In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, ensuring the health and performance of your middleware is not just a best practice – it's a necessity. Middleware serves as the glue that connects various applications, systems, and services, playing a crucial role in the [...]
Understanding MQ vs Kafka: How They Differ and Work Together This blog post will explore the key differences and similarities between two leading messaging solutions: MQ and Kafka. We will examine their unique features and use cases and how they can work together to create robust, real-time data processing systems. Additionally, we will discuss the [...]
IBM MQ Queue Management: Essential Tips for High Performance and Security IBM MQ is a messaging middleware that facilitates the seamless integration of diverse applications by allowing them to exchange data and messages. As a critical component in modern IT environments, effective queue management in IBM MQ ensures the smooth and efficient flow [...]
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