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Entries Tagged as 'Best Practices'

WebSphere MQ – Coming soon to an audit near you!

July 4th, 2009 No Comments

The June 29 episode of The Deep Queue is finally up!  Sorry about the delay, I was on an engagement last week that had me staying over the weekend in Boston to perform a production implementation on Saturday.  Although I’ve got a great recording setup at home, I’m afraid I don’t have decent equipment to [...]

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WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: WMQ Security exits

May 15th, 2009 2 Comments

As you know, there are some security functions in WebSphere MQ that require an exit.  By now everyone should be familiar with BlockIP2, the well known channel security exit.  But there are a couple of other requirements that a channel exit can’t meet.  In this post I’ll describe what those are and post some specs [...]

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Choosing a PCI DSS Auditor? Does WMQ awareness count?

January 26th, 2009 No Comments

James DeLuccia’s post about choosing a PCI DSS QSA auditor has some good advice.  I would add to his list a criteria one of my own: the auditor should at least know how to spell WMQ.  Or JMS.  Or “message oriented middleware”.  While I haven’t been involved in any PCI audits, many of my customers [...]

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developerWorks live chat on WMQ

January 15th, 2009 No Comments

developerWorks is hosting a live text chat at Noon Eastern US time on January 22nd on the topic of WMQ Best Practices.  The panel will include some folks from the WebSphere MQ online community that you may know: Chris Frank, Peter Potkay and myself.  If you have any questions about WebSphere MQ that you haven’t [...]

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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 [...]

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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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