What's new and changed in release 9.1.2

This topic describes new and changed features in version 9.1.2 of the appliance firmware.

The following features are new for 9.1.2:
  • Queue manager error log enhancements, including support for:
    • Configuring the error log size
    • Excluding and suppressing messages
    • File-based diagnostic message services, including JSON formatted logs
    • Appliance log target integration, which provides support for streaming queue manager error log messages to a remote syslog server.
    See IBM MQ appliance logs.
  • The IBM MQ level name is now reported by the show version and show firmware-version appliance commands, see show version and show firmware-version.
  • The firmware version information and the CLI login message now identify whether the firmware delivery type is long-term support (LTS) or continuous delivery (CD).
  • A controlled shutdown is now performed for queue managers during shutdown or reboot of the appliance.
The following features are changed for 9.1.2:
  • The default values for some log target properties have changed. The default log target type has changed from cache to file, and the default timestamp format has changed from syslog to ISO Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format (zulu).
  • The maximum SSH banner length (before truncation) has increased from 1023 characters to 4096 characters.
  • In the CLI, the IBM MQ administration mode (mqcli) is now also available within the global configuration command shell (config) in addition to the initial login shell. See IBM MQ commands.
  • The REST URI for the show firmware command has changed from /mgmt/status/default/FirmwareStatus to /mgmt/status/default/FirmwareStatus2. The previous REST URI is still available, but is now deprecated. See /mgmt/status/default/FirmwareStatus2.
  • The REST URI for the show firmware-version command has changed from /mgmt/status/default/FirmwareVersion2 to /mgmt/status/default/FirmwareVersion3. The previous REST URI is available, but is now deprecated. See /mgmt/status/default/FirmwareVersion3.
  • Public certificates are no longer provided in the pubcert: directory. You should request and upload any public certificates that you require. See Uploading certificates to the appliance.
  • The appliance now runs IBM MQ V9.1.2. See What's new and changed in IBM MQ 9.1.2 IBM MQ documentation for details of features that are new for 9.1.2.