Separate CHANGES file

Author: ibmmqmet

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md

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+Please include the following information in your ticket.
+
+- Version information for MQ, mq-golang, Go compiler
+- A small code sample that demonstrates the issue.

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

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+Please ensure all items are complete before opening.
+
+- [ ] Tick to sign-off your agreement to the [IBM Contributor License Agreement](https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang/CLA.md)
+- [ ] You have added tests for any code changes
+- [ ] You have updated the [CHANGES.md](https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang/CHANGES.md)
+- [ ] You have completed the PR template below:
+
+## What
+
+What was changed
+
+## How
+
+How the change was implemented or reasoning behind it
+
+## Testing
+
+How to test your changes work, not required for documentation changes.
+
+## Issues
+
+Links to the github issue(s) (if present) that this pull request is resolving.

CHANGES.md

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+
+08 Jul 2016
+* Initial release
+
+18 Jul 2016
+* Changed structures so that most applications will not need to use cgo to imbed the MQ C headers
+  * Go programs will now use int32 where C programs use MQLONG
+  * Use of message handles, distribution lists require cgo for now
+* Package ibmmq now includes the numeric #defines as a Go file, cmqc.go, for easier use
+* Removed "src/" prefix from tree in github repo
+* Removed need for buffer length parm on Put/Put1
+* Updated comments
+* Added MQINQ
+* Added MQItoString function for some maps of values to constant names
+
+25 Jul 2016
+* Added functions to handle basic PCF creation and parsing
+* Added a monitor command for exporting MQ V9 queue manager data to Prometheus. See
+the [README](cmd/mq_prometheus/README.md) for more details
+
+04 Aug 2016
+* Added a monitor command for exporting MQ data to InfluxDB. See the [README]
+(cmd/mq_influx/README.md) for more details
+* Restructured the monitoring code to put common material in the mqmetric
+package, called from the Influx and Prometheus monitors.
+
+12 Aug 2016
+* Added a OpenTSDB monitor. See the [README](cmd/mq_opentsdb/README.md) for
+more details.
+* Added a Collectd monitor. See the [README](cmd/mq_coll/README.md) for
+more details.
+* Added MQI MQCNO/MQCSP structures to support client connections and password authentication
+with MQCONNX.
+* Allow client-mode connections from the monitor programs
+* Added Grafana dashboards for the different monitors to show how to query them
+* Changed database password mechanism so that "exec" maintains the PID for MQ services
+
+23 Aug 2016
+* Added a collector for Amazon AWS CloudWatch monitoring. See the [README](cmd/mq_aws/README.md)
+for more details.
+
+17 Oct 2016
+* Added some Windows support. An example batch file is included in the mq_influx directory;
+changes would be needed to the MQSC script to call it. The other monitor programs can be
+supported with similar modifications.
+* Added a "getting started" section to this README.
+
+07 Nov 2016
+* Added a collector that prints metrics in a simple JSON format.
+See the [README](cmd/mq_json/README.md) for more details.
+* Fixed bug where freespace metrics were showing as non-integer bytes, not percentages
+
+14 Dec 2016
+* Minor updates to this README for formatting
+* Removed xxx_CURRENT_LENGTH definitions from cmqc
+
+10 Jan 2017
+* Added support for the MQCD and MQSCO structures to allow programmable client
+connectivity, without requiring a CCDT. See the clientconn sample program
+for an example of using the MQCD.
+* Moved sample programs into subdirectory
+
+15 Feb 2017
+* API BREAKING CHANGE: The MQI verbs have been changed to return a single
+error indicator instead of two separate values. See mqitest.go for
+examples of how MQRC/MQCC codes can now be tested and extracted. This change
+makes the MQI implementation a bit more natural for Go environments.
+
+25 Mar 2017
+* Added the metaPrefix option to the Prometheus monitor. This allows selection of non-default resources such as the MQ Bridge for Salesforce included in MQ 9.0.2.
+
+18 May 2017
+* Added the V9.0.3 constant definitions.
+* Reinstated 64-bit structure "length" fields in
+cmqc.go after fixing a bug in the base product C source code generator.
+
+October 2017
+* Added V9.0.4 constant definitions - now generated from original MQ source code
+* Added MQSC script to show how to redefine event queues for pub/sub
+* Prometheus collector has new parameter to override the first component of the metric name
+* Prometheus collector can now process channel-level statistics
+
+March 2018
+* Added V9.0.5 constant definitions
+* Changed #cgo directives for Windows now the compiler supports standard path names
+* Added mechanism to set MQ userid and password for Prometheus monitor
+