IBM has announced the deprecation of MQ Explorer, raising an urgent question for MQ administrators: What’s next? For organizations evaluating an IBM MQ Explorer alternative, the answer shouldn't simply be migrating to another basic GUI or forcing a shift to GitOps. It should be an opportunity to adopt a better way to administer MQ. [...]
Heading to IBM TechXchange in Atlanta this year? If IBM MQ is part of your day-to-day work, you'll want to make time for the MQ User Group on Monday, October 26. It's a chance to hear directly from IBM, see how others are approaching common MQ challenges, and connect with people who understand what it [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Why Risk and Operations Teams Inspect Business Values Inside Kafka Records This is Part 3 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article | Next Article A risk or operations team does not inspect Kafka message content merely because the technology makes it possible. The team inspects content [...]
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