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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|

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February 17th, 2026|

AI Agents vs. Monitoring Agents: Why the Difference Matters for IT Operations

If you’ve been following the AI headlines lately, you’ve probably seen “AI agents” everywhere—pitched as autonomous systems that perceive context, reason, plan, and take actions with minimal human intervention. The hype is real, but it’s also creating a very specific kind of confusion:

Enterprises already have strong opinions about “agents.” In IT operations, an “agent” has long meant installed […]

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February 11th, 2026|

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 “Kubernetes-native by default,” more self-service operations, and tighter security/observability across hybrid estates.[1]

Rather […]

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February 5th, 2026|

DataPower X4 is Coming. Is Your Monitoring Ready?

The Edge just got sharper.

On March 26, 2026, IBM will officially release the DataPower Gateway X4 appliance and Firmware v11.0. This isn’t just a hardware refresh; it represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises secure the edge.

But here’s the thing:

Upgrading your engine doesn’t matter if you can’t see the dashboard. As you prepare to adopt this new beast of a machine, you […]

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January 29th, 2026|

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. This approach breaks the silo, reduces MTTR, and gives you true situational awareness in minutes, […]

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January 6th, 2026|

Best of 2025: Top Middleware Trends & Integration Guides

2025 was a turning point for enterprise IT.

Middleware stopped being just “plumbing.” It became the intelligence behind the operation. Looking back at the last 12 months, one thing is clear: the old ways of managing integration are gone.

What changed in 2025? According to the IBM 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, companies without proper AI governance […]

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December 15th, 2025|

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 resorting to inefficient workarounds, overusing the Environment tree, or risking data corruption.

With the introduction of the […]

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