I think we are well over due for a new update on What's Hot in the WebSphere MQ World. It is Spring time here in the United States and several things have been springing up in the WebSphere MQ world lately. I think now is a good time to talk about a few of them.   1. How the TLS Heartbleed security vulnerability applies to WebSphere MQ offerings. This topic has been a hot item recently for most all companies. Whether this vulnerability actually affects a product or not, it is still a hot topic, even if it is just a matter of... [More]

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  A very useful means of analyzing DataPower transaction latencies are the Latency log records (at information level), here an example: ... mpgw (coproc2xform) Latency: 0 17 0 17 20 14 11 20 22 20 22 513 0 20 17 17 [http://9.152.92.61:2223/]   Paul Glezen created cool "dpShowLatency" tool, a Mozilla Firefox add-on for analyzing IBM DataPower latency log entries. The add-on is available at: http://pglezen.github.io/dpShowLatency/   This is how the above latency record displayed, after a nice animation finished:  ... [More]

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  When using the probe it can be helpful to understand how the probe works so you can know the limitations of the feature. As an aside, when you turn on the probe on a service, this is considered a service configuration change like any other change to the device. This will mean that existing connections can be torn down and the service will be temporarily unavailible while it is reconfigured. Getting back to my main point, the probe works by essentially adding a 'hidden' debug action into the rules between all the other actions, as... [More]

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  What is the problem?   Have you ever run into a problem in WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) and you just were not sure where to start looking to find help or to find the solution? Have you ever started working on a problem in WMB and you were able to get started looking for the answer but you ended up going down the wrong path? Have you ever had a problem in WMB and you found the solution but you were left with questions because you were not sure how you got from the problem symptoms to the final solution? Have you ever just wanted to... [More]

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The "Test Feature" of the WebSphere MQ Explorer was added in WebSphere MQ V7.  This tool examines your WebSphere MQ object definitions, and can spot configuration errors.  Test results are displayed in the WebSphere MQ Explorer Test Results view, which opens the first time that you run a test. In my testing for this new feature, I defined some WebSphere MQ objects with some very obvious errors.  For example, my remote queue specified: transmission queue, remote queue, and a remote queue manager object that did not exist.  My sender... [More]

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What ever happened to the MQ API Exerciser? I have used this tool in prior versions of WebSphere MQ and I can't find it in WebSphere MQ V7.  My mistake it is included in V7, but it's hard to find. I have installed WebSphere MQ many times, and like most people, I just zoom through the installation process by using the path of least resistance.  I was rushing to get WebSphere MQ V7 installed, and after the installation was complete, I started looking for the MQ API Exerciser;  I finally found it under the WebSphere MQ Explorer. So, if you are... [More]

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