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.
- The IBM MQ level name is now reported by the
show version
andshow 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
tofile
, and the default timestamp format has changed fromsyslog
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.