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Simplifying Message Filtering and Selection for Accurate Test Scenarios with Infrared360

Simplifying Message Filtering and Selection for Accurate Test Scenarios with Infrared360 Testing middleware systems effectively often requires replicating complex real-world scenarios with high precision. IBM MQ, with its robust messaging capabilities, serves as the backbone of many enterprise architectures. However, simulating real production environments for testing can be challenging, especially when it comes to filtering [...]

By |2024-11-20T15:50:35-05:00November 20th, 2024|General, Infrared360® Blog, Middleware|

Proactive Middleware Health Monitoring: The Key to Maintaining a Resilient IT Environment

Proactive Middleware Health Monitoring: The Key to Maintaining a Resilient IT Environment In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, ensuring the health and performance of your middleware is not just a best practice – it's a necessity. Middleware serves as the glue that connects various applications, systems, and services, playing a crucial role in the [...]

By |2024-10-08T13:48:16-04:00September 30th, 2024|IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure, Kafka, Middleware|

MQ vs Kafka Explained: Differences, Similarities, and Combined Power

Understanding MQ vs Kafka: How They Differ and Work Together This blog post will explore the key differences and similarities between two leading messaging solutions: MQ and Kafka. We will examine their unique features and use cases and how they can work together to create robust, real-time data processing systems. Additionally, we will discuss the [...]

By |2024-10-29T18:47:39-04:00July 10th, 2024|IBM MQ, Infrared360® Blog, IT Infrastructure, Kafka, Middleware|

IBM MQ Vulnerability – Internet Pass-Thru traces sensitive data

IBM MQ Vulnerability  - When Trace is activated, Internet Pass-Thru writes sensitive data to trace files. This morning IBM Announced a newly discovered IBM MQ vulnerability. The issue is apparently Mitre is still researching the issue and has not written a description of it as the CVE entry is still showing up as "** [...]

By |2022-11-14T15:55:09-05:00November 14th, 2022|Infrared360® Blog|

IBM MQ Vulnerability For the IBM i Platform

An IBM MQ Vulnerability was identified with the Jackson library that is used within the IBM MQ Console to provide REST API functionality. The issue was announced on June 22, 2022. The Jackson library is only used in IBM MQ Versions 9.2.4 and above. The description of the issue is as follows: FasterXML jackson-databind [...]

By |2022-06-29T16:08:19-04:00June 22nd, 2022|Infrared360® Blog, Middleware|

Pay for IBM MQ Skills Is On The Rise

According to a the latest IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index, compiled by Foote Partners, pay for in-demand IT skills, including IBM MQ Skills, rose the fastest it has in 14 years.  CIOs seeking to hire or retain skilled IT workers should continue to budget generously for payroll. Pay premiums for non-certified tech [...]

By |2022-06-02T21:01:35-04:00June 3rd, 2022|Infrared360® Blog|

Introduction to IBM MQ: powering cloud-native apps, everywhere!

Introduction to IBM MQ: powering cloud-native apps, everywhere! Mon, Jun 20, 2022 10:00 AM EDT SummaryIBM MQ is a robust, reliable, and secure messaging solution. It simplifies and accelerates the integration of different applications across multiple platforms including on premises / private data centers and public clouds. In this session we’ll look how IBM [...]

By |2022-06-02T20:52:29-04:00June 2nd, 2022|IBM Community, Infrared360® Blog|

IBM MQ 9.3 Announced

IBM MQ 9.3 Announced On April 12, 2022 IBM officially announced IBM MQ 9.3 availability for June 23, 2022*.   Most of what is new in IBM Q 9.3 is focused on modernization of your MQ estate and has been previously released as enhancements that were introduced in version 9.2.x CD. However there is some [...]

MQ Explorer Installation Requirements Vs Infrared360

MQ Explorer Installation Requirements Vs Infrared360 MQ Explorer Installation Requirements IBM MQ Explorer, whether for Windows or Linux used to be able to be installed as part of the product installation. But, as of MQ 9.3, it must now be installed from the stand-alone IBM MQ Explorer download available from Fix Central. IBM MQ Explorer is lightweight (it has [...]

By |2022-08-23T19:57:02-04:00August 21st, 2021|Infrared360® Blog, Middleware|
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