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Transforming Your IBM MQ Estate Using Containers

Transforming Your IBM MQ Estate Using Containers2021-08-05T16:33:08-04:00

Transforming Your IBM MQ Estate Using Containers

Presented by: David Ware

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But in active enterprise environments, discovering a suspicious message is rarely the end of the investigation—it is where operational triage begins.

Once a problematic […]

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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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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.

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