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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|

Troubleshoot Protobuf Kafka Records Without Custom Code

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. [...]

By |2026-09-09T21:38:15-04:00August 12th, 2026|General, Infrared360® Blog|

IBM MQ REST API Security: Automate MQ Without Losing RBAC

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 [...]

By |2026-08-05T14:22:29-04:00August 5th, 2026|General, Infrared360® Blog|

Confluent Message Browser vs. Infrared360 for Protobuf

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 [...]

By |2026-08-12T16:07:56-04:00August 3rd, 2026|General, Infrared360® Blog|

How Infrared360 Helps IBM MQ Engineers in Financial Services

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, [...]

By |2026-09-10T15:41:29-04:00July 15th, 2026|General|

Why Risk Teams Inspect Business Values in Kafka Records

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 [...]

By |2026-08-12T16:07:23-04:00July 13th, 2026|General, Infrared360® Blog|

IBM MQ Appliance M2004: What MQ Teams Should Know

IBM MQ Appliance M2004: What MQ Teams Should Know About the New Release IBM has announced the IBM MQ Appliance M2004, a new hardware model designed to support higher messaging performance, modern memory architecture, and expanded network connectivity for enterprise MQ environments. [1] For MQ teams managing high-volume messaging, business-critical workloads, and resilient infrastructure, this [...]

By |2026-07-10T10:19:06-04:00July 10th, 2026|General|

Kafka Monitoring vs. Protobuf Message Inspection

Kafka Monitoring Can Show the Symptom. Protobuf Record Inspection Can Reveal the Cause This is Part 2 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article | Next Article Kafka operations teams depend on monitoring because distributed streaming systems can fail in many ways. Brokers can become unavailable, partitions [...]

By |2026-08-12T16:06:46-04:00July 9th, 2026|General, Infrared360® Blog|

Middleware Performance Testing: Using Synthetic Transactions to Validate Message Flow, Routing, and Middleware Health

Middleware Performance: What Experienced Teams Monitor, Manage, and Automate Middleware performance testing is the practice of validating how messaging and integration infrastructure behaves under realistic transaction patterns—not just whether a queue manager, broker, channel, or application endpoint is technically “up.” IBM’s documentation on monitoring your IBM MQ network emphasizes the value of gathering statistics [...]

By |2026-07-07T15:36:05-04:00July 7th, 2026|General|

AVADA SOFTWARE AT A GLANCE

Avada Software’s flagship product, Infrared360®, is an IT management portal providing total administration, monitoring, testing, auditing, analytics dashboards, and self-service for cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environments. Get secure, collaborative management of elements across your IT stack like Kafka®, IBM® MQ, IBM® ACE/IIB, ActiveMQ®, WebSphere®, JBoss®, and Tomcat® Application Servers, URLs, SOAP & REST-based web services, IBM® DataPower® and MQ Appliance.

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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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