When people think about IBM MQ capacity planning, queue depth is often one of the first things they look at. That makes sense. If messages are piling up on a queue, something may not be keeping pace. But queue depth only tells you part of the story. An MQ environment can start running into [...]
A queue is backing up. An application team is reporting failed transactions. Or while investigating an unrelated routing issue, you discover messages that simply look out of place. Standard IBM MQ message browsing lets administrators and support teams inspect queue contents without consuming or removing messages.[1] But in active enterprise environments, discovering a suspicious [...]
IBM MQ® can support some of the most time-sensitive digital interactions in travel and transportation, including bookings, travel updates, fare payments, baggage-related processes, hospitality systems, and loyalty programs.[1][2] For Middleware Operations Leaders, the challenge increases as IBM MQ expands across more applications, environments, locations, and teams. The goal is to keep the MQ environment [...]
MQ Traffic Switching Visibility: Reducing Risk During Data Center Failover When enterprises move application traffic from one data center to another, the release or operations workflow may look controlled on the surface. A change window is opened. A runbook is followed. A release orchestration tool launches a workflow. Scripts are executed. Statuses are checked. [...]
How the IBM Confluent Acquisition Changes MQ and Kafka in 2026 Imagine you are an enterprise architect building a modern data system. You need to safely move highly sensitive financial transactions. You also need to stream millions of user clicks to your analytics dashboard in real time. For a decade, IT directors fiercely debated the [...]
IBM MQ Appliance Authority Vulnerability (CVE-2026-1713) Addressed: What MQ Teams Should Do Now Security bulletin recap and upgrade checklist for IBM MQ Appliance 9.4 LTS and 9.4 CD Key takeaways IBM disclosed and addressed an authority vulnerability affecting IBM MQ Appliance (CVE-2026-1713).12 The issue relates to unintended access to the system queue SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE, which [...]
IBM MQ Console/REST API XSS vulnerability fixed: CVE-2025-12635 (DT457904) IBM published a security bulletin describing how IBM MQ can be affected by a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty—the Liberty runtime IBM MQ uses to provide the IBM MQ Console and the IBM MQ REST API.1What’s the issue?The vulnerability is tracked [...]
Understanding the Recent IBM Tivoli Monitoring Java SDK Vulnerabilities Recently, IBM published a security bulletin addressing multiple vulnerabilities within the IBM SDK Java Technology Edition that is bundled with various IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) components. Because these components are heavily relied upon for enterprise environment monitoring, understanding the scope of these vulnerabilities and applying [...]
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. [...]
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