August 23, 2011 - 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 When using linear logging, log files that have been archived and are no longer needed for (WMQ) recovery, are automatically deleted from the active directory.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 14, 2011 - 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, 2011 - 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.