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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 [...]

By |September 10th, 2026|
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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 [...]

By |August 3rd, 2026|
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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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