Tag Archives: Best Practices

WebSphere MQ – Coming soon to an audit near you!

Posted on July 4, 2009 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: WMQ Security exits

Posted on May 15, 2009 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Choosing a PCI DSS Auditor? Does WMQ awareness count?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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developerWorks live chat on WMQ

Posted on January 15, 2009 by T.Rob

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, … Continue reading →

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Mission:Messaging: Migration, failover, and scaling in a WebSphere MQ cluster

Posted on December 2, 2008 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Mission:Messaging: Embracing cultural change in the WebSphere MQ community

Posted on September 7, 2008 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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