WebSphere MQ

WebSphere® MQ V6.0.2
WebSphere MQ V6.0.2 delivers enhancements to ease of use and management in addition to service updates for many distributed platforms.

Visit the WebSphere MQ Support site to download and install the latest maintenance pack:

• Get WebSphere MQ V6.0.2

This mod release provides enhancements for greater ease-of-use and manageability:

• Graphical Java Message Service (JMS) configuration
• Configuration problem detection and diagnosis tools
• Graphical tools for managing permissions and access

These enhancements build upon the new configuration tooling introduced in WebSphere MQ V6.0 as new Eclipse plug-ins that augment your MQ Explorer console.

Alongside these enhancements, IBM has also delivered a new SupportPac (MS0Q), making it easier to configure and explore Publish/Subscribe messaging. This is also packaged as an Eclipse plug-in for MQ Explorer:

• More about the graphical Publish/Subscribe configuration
• Get the new plug-in for graphical Publish/Subscribe configuration

In addition, WebSphere MQ V6.0.2 packages Message Service Clients. These provide similar interfaces to Java Message Service (JMS) for these languages and environments:

• C

• C++

• .NET including C#

Graphical JMS configuration

• Easily explore and configure your JMS definitions across your MQ network
  - See all the properties of JMS resources at a glance
  - Easily update JMS object properties

• Easily create JMS resources
  - Such as Connection Factories using step-by-step wizards

• Customize display of JMS objects and properties by filtering your view based on rich criteria
  - e.g. view all connection factories named like "sales"

• View the example

Configuration problem detection and diagnosis tools
New problem discovery and diagnosis tools extend capabilities of MQ Explorer:

• One-click diagnosis of MQ message backbone set-up

• Helps find errors and potential problems and provides advice on solutions and improvements

• Visual display of errors, warnings and useful information

• Covers a wide range of areas from clustering to SSL

• Easily extend the checks provided with your own custom tests
  - Samples are included that show how to do this

• View the example

Graphical tools for Managing Permissions and Access

New tools for administering user authority that extends capabilities of MQ Explorer.
Easier to see at a glance who has access and permissions to MQ objects - e.g. Queues and Channels

• Show who has authorities on specific objects or "like" objects

• Compare authorities and accumulated authorities

• Find accumulated authorities and see how they resolve

Easier control over who can access and control MQ objects

• Add, change or delete authorities for both individual users and groups

• Prompts before overwriting existing authorities

• Context sensitive menus and online help

• Save authorities to a text file

• Easier to find users who don't have appropriate connect authority to a Queue manager

• View the example

Graphical Publish/Subscribe configuration

Publish/Subscribe is a one-to-many messaging paradigm where senders and receivers are loosely coupled by "keywords" or "topics" appearing in message headers.
This new SupportPac further enhances usability by making the configuration of Publish/Subscribe messaging graphical and consistent with how other aspects of WebSphere MQ are configured.

• Graphical configuration of Publish/Subscribe from Eclipse-based MQ Explorer

• Easily explore and configure all your Publishers and Subscribers

• See a glance:
  - All Publishers and which streams they are using
  - All Subscribers and which topics they subscribe to
  - How Publish/Subscribe streams are being utilized

• Now easier to test your set-up with tools for Publishing and Subscribing test messages

• View the example