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Managing IBM MQ at Scale in Travel & Transportation: A Guide for Middleware Operations Leaders

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 [...]

By |2026-09-10T17:42:12-04:00September 10th, 2026|General, IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog|

How to Renew IBM MQ Certificates in MQ 10.0.x

IBM MQ 10.0.x provides the native tools and security controls needed to renew TLS certificates. On AIX, Linux, and Windows, the documented process for an existing personal certificate is to recreate the certificate request with runmqakm, submit the request to the appropriate certificate authority, receive the signed certificate into the same key repository, and [...]

By |2026-09-10T13:59:24-04:00September 10th, 2026|General, IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog|

MQ Traffic Switching Visibility: Reducing Risk During Data Center Failover

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. [...]

By |2026-05-15T16:15:21-04:00May 15th, 2026|General, IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure|

IBM & Confluent: How the $11B Acquisition Changes MQ & Kafka

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 [...]

By |2026-04-16T14:31:24-04:00April 16th, 2026|General, IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure, Kafka, Middleware|

IBM MQ Appliance Authority Vulnerability (CVE-2026-1713) Addressed: What MQ Teams Should Do Now

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 [...]

By |2026-03-04T13:13:04-05:00March 3rd, 2026|General, IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure, Middleware|

IBM MQ Console/REST API XSS vulnerability fixed: CVE-2025-12635 (DT457904)

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 [...]

By |2026-03-03T11:32:19-05:00March 3rd, 2026|General, IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure, Middleware|

Critical Java SDK Vulnerabilities Found in IBM Tivoli Monitoring

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 [...]

By |2026-02-25T14:53:44-05:00February 25th, 2026|General, IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure, Middleware|

IBM MQ 9.4.5: A practical upgrade for teams modernizing MQ (without breaking what already works)

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 [...]

By |2026-02-12T15:48:31-05:00February 11th, 2026|General, IBM MQ, IBM MQ on z/OS, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure, Middleware|

Mainframe Middleware Monitoring: How to Break the Silo

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. [...]

By |2026-01-29T14:17:41-05:00January 29th, 2026|General, IBM MQ, IBM MQ on z/OS, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure, Middleware|

A Smarter Way to Handle Message Data: Understanding Context Trees in IBM App Connect Enterprise

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 [...]

By |2025-12-15T15:46:40-05:00December 15th, 2025|General, IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure, Middleware|

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The Middleware Blog

September 10th, 2026|

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 visible, reliable, secure, and manageable while giving the right teams the access and information they need. Infrared360® helps […]

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September 10th, 2026|

IBM MQ 10.0.x provides the native tools and security controls needed to renew TLS certificates. On AIX, Linux, and Windows, the documented process for an existing personal certificate is to recreate the certificate request with runmqakm, submit the request to the appropriate certificate authority, receive the signed certificate into the same key repository, and refresh the queue manager’s TLS security cache.[1][2]

That process is well defined. The operational challenge usually appears […]

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August 12th, 2026|

This is Part 5 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article A custom Kafka consumer is often the first troubleshooting idea when a team needs to inspect Protobuf data. The logic appears simple: obtain the schema, connect to the topic, deserialize the record, and print the fields. In practice, even a temporary diagnostic program can become a small […]

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August 5th, 2026|

IBM MQ REST API Security: Automate MQ Without Losing RBAC

REST APIs are changing how teams manage enterprise middleware. For IBM MQ teams, that can be a very good thing. REST and Swagger-style API documentation make it easier to script common actions, integrate with change systems, reduce manual work, and give operations teams faster ways to interact with MQ environments.

But there is a catch.

The question is not simply, “Can we […]

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August 3rd, 2026|

Confluent Message Browser vs. Infrared360: Two Protobuf Inspection Workflows This is Part 4 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article | Next Article A useful product comparison starts by acknowledging the overlap. Confluent Cloud’s message browser and Confluent Platform Control Center can display, filter, validate, download, and produce Kafka messages. They support schema-based workflows […]

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July 15th, 2026|

A practical evaluation guide for MQ engineers comparing monitoring and administration platforms

If you are evaluating an IBM MQ monitoring and administration solution, you probably do not need another tool that only displays queue depth. You need a faster and safer way to see what is happening across the MQ estate, investigate incidents, take approved action, share the right level of visibility with other teams, and retain evidence of what […]

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