What's new and what's changed in IBM MQ Explorer
Learn about the main new and changed functions in IBM® MQ Explorer.
New IBM MQ Explorer features in IBM MQ 9.4.x
There are no new or changed features in IBM MQ Explorer in IBM MQ 9.4.x.
New IBM MQ Explorer features in IBM MQ 9.3.x
From version 9.3.5, IBM MQ Explorer does not support SSL FIPS compliant mode. You must either disable this option, or use an earlier version of IBM MQ Explorer. You are warned if you attempt to connect to a remote queue manager with this option enabled.
From IBM MQ 9.3.0, IBM MQ Explorer has been removed from the IBM MQ installation package. It remains available as a separate download, and can be installed from the stand-alone IBM MQ Explorer download available from Fix Central.
New IBM MQ Explorer features in IBM MQ 9.2.x
IBM MQ Explorer is built on Eclipse 4.15.
For more information about installation requirements, see IBM MQ Explorer installation requirements and Installing IBM MQ Explorer into Eclipse environments.
New IBM MQ Explorer features in IBM MQ 9.1.x
- Change to version of Eclipse that IBM MQ Explorer is built on
From IBM MQ 9.1.0, IBM MQ Explorer is built on Eclipse 4.7.3 instead of Eclipse 4.6.3.
- Changes to delivery mechanism for updates to stand-alone IBM MQ Explorer
From IBM MQ 9.1.4, the stand-alone IBM MQ Explorer, previously known as SupportPac MS0T, is available as a stand-alone application from Fix Central. SupportPac MS0T is no longer available from the IBM download site.
For more information about installation requirements, see IBM MQ Explorer installation requirements and Installing IBM MQ Explorer into Eclipse environments.
New IBM MQ Explorer features in IBM MQ 9.0.4
- IBM MQ Explorer is built on Eclipse 4.6.3 instead of Eclipse 4.4.2.
- For more information about installation requirements, see IBM MQ Explorer installation requirements and Installing IBM MQ Explorer into Eclipse environments.
New IBM MQ Explorer features in IBM MQ 9.0
- IBM MQ Explorer is built on Eclipse 4.4.2 instead of Eclipse 4.3.2.
- For more information about installation requirements, see IBM MQ Explorer installation requirements and Installing IBM MQ Explorer into Eclipse environments.
New IBM MQ Explorer features in IBM MQ 8.0
- IBM MQ Explorer is built on Eclipse 4.3.1 instead of Eclipse 3.6.2.
- For more information about installation requirements, see IBM MQ Explorer installation requirements and Installing IBM MQ Explorer into Eclipse environments.
- Support for topic host routing for publish/subscribe clusters
- In previous versions, when you configure a clustered topic on a queue manager, all queue managers in the cluster become aware of all other queue managers in the cluster. When performing publish and subscribe operations, each queue manager then connects directly to all the others. This approach is still available in IBM MQ 8.0, where it is known as direct routing.
- Support to better understand the size of your system
- The following parameters are added to the publish/subscribe information
reported. They are displayed on the Publish/Subscribe status page
for a given queue manager.
- Sub count. Shows the total number of subscriptions against the local topic tree.
- Topic count. Shows the total number of topic nodes in the local topic tree.
- New connection details properties
- For more information, see Connection details properties.
- CHCKLOCL
- Setting CHCKLOCL to Required for administrators or Required for all stops you from locally administering the queue manager by way of the runmqsc commands unless you specify the -u UserID parameter on the runmqsc command line.
- Security enabled remote queue manager connections
- The SSL cipher specification RC2_MD5_EXPORT is no longer supported. Connections that use this cipher specification and that are imported into IBM MQ Explorer for IBM MQ 8.0 have a blank SSL cipher specification setting. A new cipher specification must be selected.
- Deprecation of specific SSLv3 Cipher Suites
- The three SSL cipher specifications listed in Java and JMS: changes to CipherSuite support in the IBM MQ 8.0 online product documentation are no longer supported.
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- New for z/OS
- For z/OS, the following changes are described in
Queue manager properties and Channel properties:
- New Statistics monitoring (z/OS) section.
- Link added from Statistics monitoring (Multiplatforms) to Statistics monitoring (z/OS).
- New Security policies, *Maximum ACE pool size (KB), and Excluded operator messages parameters added to System (z/OS).
- Channel statistics parameter description enhanced in Statistics page.
- Clarification added to the Cluster channel names parameter for z/OS. For more information, see the
Cluster channel names
attribute in the Extended page of IBM MQ queue properties.