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What's changed in IBM MQ 9.0.0 Fix Pack 8
IBM® MQ 9.0.0 Fix Pack 8 includes a resource change.
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Allow Advanced Message Security applications to use GSKit in non-FIPS mode
From IBM MQ 9.0.0 Fix Pack 8, a check has been added to the IBM MQ library code that runs within the customer's application program. The check runs early in its initialization to read the value of the environment variable AMQ_AMS_FIPS_OFF and, if it is set to any value, then the GSKit code will be run in non-FIPS mode in that application.