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IBM MQ

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What is IBM MQ?

IBM MQ (formerly WebSphere MQ and MQSeries) is messaging middleware.

Categories & Use Cases

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using IBM MQ
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

27.9%

791 installations of 2,837

#2 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

22.9%

649 installations of 2,837

#3 most frequent

Information

11.2%

318 installations of 2,837

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What users are saying about IBM MQ.
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IBM MQ a great way to integrate systems for messaging

Incentivized
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Messaging between the systems and integrating the application in the enterpise

Pros

  • Queue Messages
  • First in First out
  • reprocessing of messages
  • stack up when consumer is down

Cons

  • visibility of messages
  • more UI capability to monitor

Return on Investment

  • ability to integrate seamlessly

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)

Other Software Used

Apache Kafka

IBM MQ, cool to use

Lamin AbugahView profile
Windows System Administrator in Information Technology at Ecobank (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM MQ for managing messages between our flexcube and swift applications

Pros

  • Ability to translate messages from flexcube to swift very well

Cons

  • IBM MQ needs to improve on its connectivity to applications
  • IBM MQ should include auto restart when messages begin to fail

Return on Investment

  • IBM MQ is less costly compared to SWIFT GPI that we also use
  • we always have to manually restart the service in case the service goes down

Usability

IBM MQ best message handler

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Peter AwortweView profile
IT Asset and Configuration Analyst, Service Catalog Manager, Knowledge Manager in Information Technology at Eprocess ISA (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the IBM MQ for our Swift message management. It has a better messaging format structure which has reduced our dispute with customers over duplicates of messages. We formally also used it on Omniflow to manage the message queuing challenge with flexcube. All tanked messages are easily worked on using IBM MQ

Pros

  • It better structures messages format
  • it prevents duplicating of messages, which is a huge thing for us

Return on Investment

  • We have gained much from reduced customer dispute over duplicated messages

Other Software Used

Oracle Anti–Money Laundering (AML) Compliance

IBM MQ user experience review.

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NICK DAKORONIASView profile
Application Integration and Middleware Solution Certified Specialist in Information Technology at National Bank of Greece (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM MQ is used as an Enterprise Messaging platform in a Banking organization to ensure message integrity and flow consistency. It deals with challenges such as long-running transactions, message tracking, performance, and authentication/authorization issues. Working with IBM MQ for many years in heterogeneous environments, the platform has proven to be robust, with huge integration capabilities through the variety of APIs provided.

Pros

  • MQ client application authentication and authorization.
  • MQ message integrity.
  • MQ integration with other product suites such as: IBM Websphere Application Server, Delinea Secrets PAM server, etc.
  • MQ error logging mechanism.
  • MQ APIs for .NET, Java,... based application codes.

Cons

  • MQ message tracking in cases of no commit or roll-back.
  • MQ integration with cloud based apps optimization.
  • MQ message data handling for testing purposes (successor of RFHUtil).

Return on Investment

  • Messaging flow & delivery stability.
  • Message integrity.
  • Secure authentication and authorization for accessing MQ resources (channels, queues).

Usability

Alternatives Considered

RabbitMQ

Other Software Used

IBM Integration Bus, IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition, IBM Datacap

IBM MQ.

Incentivized
Marc MartinezView profile
Solution Architect in Customer Service at Bottomline (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM MQ is used to expose some of our software solutions to our customers. Depending on the software and customer requirements, we offer Active/Standby or RDQM infrastructure. Our challenge is to keep the MQ Infrastructure as standard as possible to allow perfect monitoring and operability.

Pros

  • Resilient
  • Secure
  • Stable

Cons

  • PKI keystore refresh should not interrupt active channels.
  • AMS rules shall not be stored only on the MQ server (an admin can remove the rules to access the messages—this is exactly what we want to avoid with AMS !).
  • Channel name length must be improved to more than 20 characters.

Return on Investment

  • I am not working on this part of the business.

Usability

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