What's new in IBM MQ 9.0.5

IBM® MQ 9.0.5 delivers a number of new and enhanced features on AIX®, Linux®, Windows, and z/OS®.

The individual features provided by a CD release are stand-alone functions but may increase in capability in subsequent CD releases, enhancing earlier CD features and forming a suite of related capabilities.

New support for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

The IBM MQ on IBM Cloud® Private container image is now supported for use in the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service on IBM Cloud. For more information, see Adding an IBM MQ image into a IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster.

New IBM MQ for Multiplatforms features

The following new features are available with both IBM MQ base product entitlement, and with IBM MQ Advanced entitlement:

• Further enhancements to the REST API - View channels and run mqsc commands on a remote queue manager
• Improvements to error logging
• Improved performance for non-transacted persistent put operations
• New method for LDAP authorization
• AMQP service starting by default
• IBM MQ custom channel for WCF enabled for send replying messages in MQSTR format

The following new features are available only with IBM MQ Advanced entitlement:

• Disaster recovery replicated data queue managers (DR RDQMs)
• New queue manager attribute for identifying IBM MQ Advanced entitlement
• Further enhancements to the REST API - Managed file transfer support
• New fteListMonitors parameter for bulk backing up of MFT resource monitors
• Ability to use colon separated lists of trace specifications in certain Managed File Transfer Logger commands

New IBM MQ for z/OS features

The following new feature is available both with IBM MQ for z/OS base product entitlement, and with IBM MQ Advanced for z/OS or IBM MQ Advanced for z/OS, Value Unit Edition entitlement:

• Further enhancements to the REST API - View channels and run mqsc commands on a remote queue manager

The following new features are available with IBM MQ Managed File Transfer for z/OS, IBM MQ Advanced for z/OS or IBM MQ Advanced for z/OS, Value Unit Edition entitlement:

• Further enhancements to the REST API - Managed file transfer support
• New fteListMonitors parameter for bulk backing up of MFT resource monitors
• Ability to use colon separated lists of trace specifications in certain Managed File Transfer Logger commands

The following new features are available only with IBM MQ Advanced for z/OS, Value Unit Edition entitlement:

• Advanced Message Security on JMS for z/OS queue managers
• AMS security policy information is available on MQOPEN, instead of requiring a separate query