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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 2, 2021

Enhance WMQ Suite adapters to support CCDT or CONNECTIONNAMELIST property and move to MQJM

Current WMQ Suite adapter is

  1. Based on MQ for JAVA technology and CCDTURL property is not exposed for configuration.

  2. Also the MQJB is matured and no further updates to the client is planned by IBM


"IBM will make no further enhancements to the IBM MQ classes for Java and they are functionally stabilized at the level shipped in IBM MQ 8.0"

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.1?topic=applications-using-mq-classes-java

Different MQ client Technology:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-find-out-version-remote-mq-code-connected-queue-manager


Moving to MQJM will enable auto reconnection feature that comes embedded with the MQ client


Another option is to look at ways to use MQ resource adapters (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.1?topic=applications-using-mq-resource-adapter)

What is your industry? Government
How will this idea be used?

Simplifies configuration maintenance and support from using MQ client technology will be a long term one.