What's new in IBM MQ 8.0.0
IBM® MQ 8.0.0 delivers improved scaling and flexibility, making it even better at supporting large-scale messaging enterprise solutions.
New in this release:
- Simpler and more flexible security administration
- The ability to integrate with existing identity repositories, enabling consistency across a solution and reducing security administration for solutions with many users
- More flexible administration of client connection information
- Customizable publication-routing for more efficiency in large scale clusters
- The ability to separate workloads by defining multiple cluster transmission queues on all supported platforms
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Massively increased capacity of buffer pools in IBM MQ for z/OS®- Increased maximum addressable log range in IBM MQ for z/OS
- Improved performance for database replication traffic using the QREP feature of Db2®
- Improved efficiency and more linear scaling through refinements to locking and optimization of codepaths
- Full 64-bit queue manager implementation on Windows and support for SSL in managed .NET applications
- Support for the JMS 2.0 version of the JMS standard, including deferred message delivery, shared subscriptions and asynchronous send operation
New family features are:
- Topic host routing for publish/subscribe clusters
- Support for JMS 2.0
- Security: connection authentication
- Security: multiple configurable certificates
- Security: Reverse lookup hostnames in CHLAUTH rules
- Integration of SupportPac MO03 - IBM MQ Queue load / unload utility
- Managed File Transfer: working with IBM MQ security
- Managed File Transfer: support for specifying ciphers in communications between protocol bridge agents and FTPS servers
- Managed File Transfer: new specifications for the resource monitor
- Managed File Transfer: enhancements to working with transfers
New features for distributed platforms are:
- Performance improvements for client and server connection channels
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64-bit queue manager implementation on Windows- Clearing IBM MQ installation information
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Managed File Transfer: user exit samples on IBM i
- Managed File Transfer: 4690 OS support
- Support for SSL in managed .NET applications
- Non-SOAP interface for transmission of native IBM MQ messages
New z/OS features are:
- Increased number of buffer pools
- Buffer pools can be located above the bar
- Support for message suppression on z/OS
- Support for multiple cluster transmission queues on z/OS
- Changes to client connectivity
- IBM IBM WebSphere® MQ for z/OS Value Unit Edition (VUE)
- Exploitation of zEnterprise® Data Compression (zEDC) Express facility
- Integration of IBM MQ Advanced Message Security
- Support for 64 bit applications
- Increased maximum addressable log range
- Channel initiator SMF data
- Managed File Transfer: new for z/OS
- Increased number of active logs