• December 12, 2014 - We are pleased to announce the General availability of ReQuest for MQ Version 6.0 for Distributed Windows, Linux and Unix platforms.  Highlights of the enhancements and newly introduced features include:

- Configuration data for, and statistics collected by Log Manager are stored in local repositories at the actual agent(s). This simplifies the configuration and increases the reliability of Log Manager as the dependencies on network components and external database servers have been eliminated. With this new capability we have also reintroduced the ability to use an embedded Derby database for the Central Configuration data, facilitating initial setup for evaluation purposes, and/or permanent setup for smaller installations that only need to deploy one single Client instance.

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  - When upgrading from RQ5.0 to RQ6.0, eventual existing “Archived log files” can be used as input for all functions of RQ6, but existing file statistics will no longer be available.
  
  
• - The user interface (Client GUI) no longer has a separate navigator item for “Log Managers”. The “Agent” nodes have been expanded to show all known queue managers at each agent, and allow defining “Log Managers” as required.

- Enhanced reporting of “Message Properties”: ReQuest reports now show eventual message properties as a readable XML string, in the same syntax as used by the RFH2 variable data.

- Improved support for long messages: MQ writes long messages in segments to the recovery log (i.e. a single PUT record, and one or more PUTPART records). The amount of data available in the actual PUT log record can vary from only a few bytes, up to at most 256KB on distributed platforms, or only 3650 bytes on z/OS. ReQuest now combines PUT and PUTPART log records up to at least 256KB (or up to the total length of the message if shorter) in a single PUT record on all platforms, allowing filtering and “Enhanced Property handling” significantly, and reducing the size of several reports. Please note that for messages longer than 256KB the eventual remaining PUTPART log records continue to be reported as before.

March 28, 2014 - We are pleased to announce the General availability of ObjectAuditor™ for WMQ Version 3.0. ObjectAuditor is a Real Time WebSphere MQ Objects Change Auditor, Reporter, Tracker with a built-in Baseline Comparison and Restore Functionality for unwanted changes. Utilising the WMQ Command and Configuration Events available on WMQ v7 for distributed and WMQ v6 on z/OS, ObjectAuditor has been enhanced to provide support for both the z/OS and Distributed WMQ platforms.

August 28, 2013 - General availability of ObjectAuditor™ for WebSphere MQ has been announced. Customers may now request to download evaluation copies of the product. For additional information, please visit the product information pages or contact your Cressida representative here.

March 25, 2013 - Cressida announces availability of the First Customer Ship Version of ObjectAuditor™ for WMQ, a Real Time WMQ Objects Change Auditor, Reporter, Tracker with a built-in Baseline Comparison and Restore Functionality for unwanted changes.

A summary of the major features in ObjectAuditor™ may be found on the product information pages.

August 23, 2012 - Cressida is pleased to announce the General Availability of ReQuest for WMQ version 5.0. A summary of the major changes in ReQuest 5.0 are:

Introduction of our new Log Manager component. For a long time we have been reading and hearing the requirement by Distributed platforms WMQ Administrators and systems staff for built in Log Management functionality as found in the zOS WMQ environment. Well, we have done something about that!

Log Manager introduces extensive functionality for manipulating and changing all WebSphere MQ queue manager attributes stored in .ini files and/or the Windows Registry. The list of features include the ability to switch between linear/circular logging and changing the size and attributes of the log files. If the changes made require that the queue manager is physically recreated, Log Manager ensures that all existing objects and messages are preserved during the process.

Log Manager brings WMQ administrators the added built-in functionality to create archive copies (optionally compressed) of the active log files, regardless of whether the Queue Manager uses linear or circular logging. When using linear logging, log files that have been archived and are no longer needed for (WMQ) recovery, are automatically deleted from the active directory. When using circular logging, ReQuest’s Recover function can be used to recover from media failures.

The Log Manager component is available for all distributed platforms supported by ReQuest.

All ReQuest functions (Report, Replay, Recover) have been enhanced to either process active log files or Log Manager archived log files, giving virtually unlimited access to historical log data.

The Summary Report can now also be written to the databse for viewing with the ReQuest Reporter.

ReQuest technical documentation has been thoroughly enhanced and streamlined to offer better and greater clarity of technical content.

For additional information about ReQuest, please visit our product information pages.

April 16, 2012 - Cressida Technology has announced the General Availability of Version 2.0 of  InQuest™ for WebSphere® MQ. The new InQuest version brings the market requested added functionality support for handling High Availability Clusters Multiprocessing (HACMP), support for Multi-Instance Queue Managers, the addition of latest releases of supported Operating Systems and Data Bases, and a number of runtime performance improvements.  InQuest utilizes the power and functionality of the IBM WebSphere MQ API Exit to "intercept" WMQ MQI calls that meet user defined criteria and performs automated user authorized compliance, standards, alerts and replication actions.

For additional information please click here to visit InQuest's product pages.

January 10, 2012 - Cressida Technology has announced the General Availability of Version 2.0 of SynQuest™ for WebSphere® MQ. The new SynQuest version brings to current customers their requested added disaster recovery functionality of synchronizing to like named Queue Managers, plus a number of run time performance enhancements and the addition of several newly supported operating systems, Java versions and databases.

For additional information please see here.

October 24, 2011 - Cressida Technology, has announced the General Availability of CeQuest™ for WebSphere® MQ Version 2.0 for immediate availability. The new CeQuest version collects message related information in a JDBC compliant database, allow users to analyze the collected data and provides message tracking, reporting, accounting and auditing for both persistent and non-persistent messages. In addition the list of support platforms has been considerably enhanced to include the newest vendor provided operating systems, Java and databases.

For additional information please see here.

February 28, 2011 - For point-in-time visibility, access and control over MQ processed critical business transactions and messages and to quickly isolate and handle tracking, auditing and regulatory compliance reporting and recovery requirements, Cressida offers a complete suite of Message Delivery Assurance and Governance solutions:

• ReQuest™ for WebSphere® MQ - a WMQ Recovery Logs Analyzer solution
• CeQuest™ for WebSphere® MQ - an MQ API Exit based Message Tracking solution

These products provide Point-in-Time Message Tracking, Message Reporting, Message Replay and Recovery, Charge-Back, Accounting, Compliance and Transactions Auditing solutions. ReQuest and CeQuest use advanced filtering technology to analyze critical message activity information already contained in the WMQ logs or available via the API Exit.

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August 9, 2010 - SNS Bank and Cressida ReQuest™ team up to deliver business transaction auditing and validation. Cressida ReQuest allowed SNS Bank, a subsidiary of SNS REAAL, to track historical records of processed MQ messages and business transactions, the kind of critical auditing and tracking that their business application owners and auditors required SNS Bank to deliver.

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