Friday 17 July 2020

Traffic Parrot 5.15.0 released, whats new?

We have just released version 5.15.0. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Features

  • Traffic Parrot can now connect to IBM MQ queue managers via SSL channels. You can do this via Native IBM MQ. We have added two new ibm-mq-connections.json properties to support Native IBM MQ SSL connections:
    "sslCipherSuite": "TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA",
    "sslPeerName": "OU=TP IBM MQ"
    To provide the server and client certificates you can add the following config to jvm.args:
    -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=certificates/ca-chain.jks
    -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=trafficparrot
    -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=certificates/mq-client.jks
    -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=trafficparrot
    -Dcom.ibm.mq.cfg.useIBMCipherMappings=false

Friday 10 July 2020

Traffic Parrot 5.14.1 released, whats new?

We have just released version 5.14.1. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Features

  • A new property that allows to force logging Native IBM MQ message bodys as printable characters instead of UTF8
    trafficparrot.ibmmq.logger.logMessageBodyAsPrintableCharacters=false

Fixes

  • The Native IBM MQ messages can now contain UTF-8 characters, for example Arabic text
  • The Native IBM MQ logs are now correctly displaying UTF-8 characters, for example Arabic text
  • The JMS IBM MQ tutorial example fruit ordering system now supports UTF8 characters, for example Arabic text

Tuesday 7 July 2020

Traffic Parrot 5.13.0 released, whats new?

We have just released version 5.13.0. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Features

  • New environment variable that allows configuring how long the startup scripts will wait for TP to start up use TP_STARTUP_WAIT_MILLIS, for example:
    test@test-pcs:~/Downloads/trafficparrot-no-jre-5.x.y$ export TP_STARTUP_WAIT_MILLIS=180000
    test@test-pcs:~/Downloads/trafficparrot-no-jre-5.x.y$ ./start.sh
    /optf/programs/jdk1.8.0_181/bin/java
    Picked up environment startup timeout in milliseconds 180000
  • A new property that allows to specify a replay Native IBM MQ script that will be run on startup
    trafficparrot.ibmmq.start.queue.replay.on.startup.script=classpath:start-ibmmq-queue-replay-on-startup.txt

Changes

  • The SDK Workspace allows now for Native IBM MQ message transformers to specify an MQMessage directly. This allows for creating transforming proxies of messages. A sample has been provided in the SDK workspace.

Fixes

  • Users were unable to update Native IBM MQ mappings in renamed files.