This post is really more for me than anyone else. I’ll be at IMPACT 2009 next week and need a handy place to track my schedule. Sunday: 16:00 – 17:00 Premium Support Welcome Reception Venetian’s Orchid Restaurant Monday: 11:00 – 12:15 TMC-1054A Basic WMQ Security Delfino 4101B Tuesday: 07:15 – 08:15 Breakfast meeting w/customer [...]
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The Deep Queue – Episode #8: The good news and the bad news
February 27th, 2009 1 Comment
This episode of The Deep Queue contains news about the new MSoT stand-alone WMQ Explorer SupportPac, yet another payment processor data breach, updates to some items we’ve covered in the past and breaking news about a WebSphere MQ interim fix that many people will want to take a close look at.
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Update to MQ Security Heats Up comment thread
February 26th, 2009 No Comments
There’s a comment thread going on over at the “WebSphere MQ Security Heats Up” post regarding the script settings as originally published versus the updates I have posted on this site. RKPowers writes “I am still confused about the +set option on the QMgr. I think what you are saying is that we need to [...]
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Whoops! Podcast audio restored.
January 14th, 2009 No Comments
Hmmm…maybe I need to take Andy Piper’s advice and switch my WordPress plugins. Sure, I’ll blame it on PodPress – as if! Well, some of you may have noticed that Episode #6 of The Deep Queue was a PDF, depending on where you subscribed. I recently added a transcript of the show at the request [...]
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Mission:Messaging: Migration, failover, and scaling in a WebSphere MQ cluster
December 2nd, 2008 3 Comments
Certain aspects of service orientation are best served using an IBM® WebSphere® MQ cluster. The cluster provides the location independence, run time resolution of names, and concurrency required by SOA applications. For these reasons, adoption of SOA is driving migrations from point-to-point messaging networks to clustered environments. This article looks at how migration, failover, and [...]
Tags: Best Practices · clustering · SOA · WebSphere MQ · WMQ
Updated script templates
October 22nd, 2008 4 Comments
The script templates for locking down admin access have been updated for WMQ v7 to include topics. I’ve also added additional comment lines, a change log and fixed a couple of typos. The new versions are an update to the original post MQ Security Heats Up.
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Mission:Messaging: Embracing cultural change in the WebSphere MQ community
September 7th, 2008 No Comments
Mission:Messaging: Embracing cultural change in the WebSphere MQ community developerWorks WebSphere Technical Journal 03 September, 2008 In this article I argue that many of the best practices in the WebSphere MQ community are no longer “best” and may even have become anti-patterns over time. But once these practices become entrenched in the culture, it is [...]
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What you didn’t know you didn’t know about WebSphere MQ security
July 8th, 2008 No Comments
developerWorks article What you didn’t know you didn’t know about WebSphere MQ security, published January 2007. Most WebSphere MQ administrators have taken steps to secure their messaging network, but a surprising number of these installations are still wide open. Is yours among them? Let me just say “thank you” for the great response to this [...]
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Running a standalone Java application on WebSphere MQ V6.0
July 8th, 2008 No Comments
In October 2006 I updated an article of Bobby Woolf’s articles Developing a standalone Java application for WebSphere MQ. The article was updated to cover WMQ v6, JMS 1.1 and include a discussion of WMQ client vs. bindings mode connections. The result was Running a standalone Java application on WebSphere MQ V6.0. I don’t have [...]
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WebSphere MQ security heats up
July 8th, 2008 20 Comments
developerWorks article WebSphere MQ Security heats up from November 2007. Are your MQ channels as secure as they should be? What you need to know about recent developments in IBM® WebSphere® MQ security and, more importantly, what you need to do — now. WebSphere MQ had been in the market 14 years when this article [...]
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