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John Ghilino2026-07-10T10:19:06-04:00July 10th, 2026|
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 release is worth reviewing as part of future capacity planning, modernization, and appliance lifecycle strategy. […]
Scott Treggiari2026-07-07T15:36:05-04:00July 7th, 2026|
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 and operational information to understand how the MQ network is running and to improve performance.[1]
For […]
Scott Treggiari2026-07-01T15:06:15-04:00July 1st, 2026|
Secure MQ Administration: Why MQ Monitoring Alone Isn’t Enough
For enterprise IT leaders, IBM MQ is often one of the most critical layers in the technology stack. It moves high-value transactions, connects core systems, and supports applications that the business cannot afford to interrupt.
That is why secure MQ administration requires more than another monitoring dashboard.
General-purpose observability and monitoring tools can be useful. They can show performance metrics, alert on availability, […]
Scott Treggiari2026-06-29T10:06:33-04:00June 29th, 2026|
IBM MQ Configuration Drift: How to Detect and Prevent It with Infrared360 Configuration drift happens when IBM MQ queue managers, queues, channels, listeners, security records, or other object definitions no longer match the approved baseline.
In IBM MQ environments, configuration drift can create operational risk, security exposure, compliance gaps, and avoidable troubleshooting work. A queue depth change, missing backout queue, altered server connection channel, different TLS setting, or inconsistent authority record […]
Scott Treggiari2026-06-17T13:53:43-04:00June 17th, 2026|
Middleware Performance: What Experienced Teams Monitor, Manage, and Automate
Middleware performance is not just about whether servers are up or whether an application appears available. For teams responsible for IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka, IBM App Connect Enterprise, application servers, and related integration infrastructure, middleware performance is about whether messages, events, transactions, and dependent services are flowing as expected.
A queue can be “up” while messages are aging. A […]
Scott Treggiari2026-06-03T11:15:01-04:00June 3rd, 2026|
This is Part 6 of a 6-part series exploring how to use IBM MQ as a reliable ingestion layer for AI and RAG.
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What It Takes to Run IBM MQ Pipelines in Production (and Why You Need an IBM MQ Monitoring Solution)
Running IBM MQ in production has always required discipline.
But when MQ […]
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