IBM MQ Reviews & Insights

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

Its well suited for translating messages for our banking applications (SWIFT, OMNIPLUS and FLEXCUBE)

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.

IBM MQ is well established as an Enterprise Messaging Product that provides enhanced message integrity and secures message delivery to its destination, which is critical for transaction completion in the banking business. It is also followed by an experienced IBM MQ Development and support team seeking optimization of product functionality and support experience.

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.

We often receive requests from customers to exchange files in the queues. However, the 100Mb limitation is too low, and the MQ MFT is too complicated for a point-to-point transfer.

So we are using IBM MQ to seamlessly connect different systems within our organization, ensuring reliable and secure communication. It solves the problem of integrating diverse applications, especially for critical tasks like financial transactions and cross-department workflows. This helps us maintain data consistency and improve overall efficiency across the board.

It is ideal for our complex environments. It is reliable and secure messaging across our system. However, sometime it is not suitable for rapid scaling.

In conjunction with App Connect Enterprise for transformation and routing of messages we are able to connect disparate systems and platforms. IBM MQ processes 1/2 billion transactions monthly without losing any data.

I have been working as an IBM MQ Administrator and IBM MQ Architect for 30 years. With IBM MQ there is no better product on the market. IBM MQ has all the functionality to meet the needs to IT in today's world. There is no better, no software more reliable, stable and expandable than IBM MQ. I have worked for major corporations dealing with trillions of dollars and other corporations dealing with processing billions of transactions monthly. This is easy for IBM MQ because it's such a robust tool. You can always go cheaper but you cannot go better.

A big retail store selling things in different places - like in their physical stores, on the internet, and from various suppliers. They had a problem because it used to takes too long to process orders and it was challenging to keep track of what they have in stock. This made customers unhappy because their orders are late, and sometimes the store runs out of the things people want to buy. As solution messagiong layer was introduced and for that IBM MQ was used to decouple the different systems involved in the order processing and inventory management process. This means that when an order is placed by a customer online or in-store, the order information is not directly processed but is instead placed in a IBM MQ message queue.

In the context of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, IBM MQ plays a pivotal role in managing the substantial data streams emanating from interconnected devices. Its primary function is to guarantee the dependable transmission and processing of data, catering to a diverse range of IoT use cases, including but not limited to smart city initiatives, healthcare monitoring systems, and industrial automation solutions. In the telecommunications sector, IBM MQ is employed for message routing, call detail record (CDR) processing, and network management to ensure real-time data exchange and fault tolerance. When managing the supply chain and logistics, IBM MQ is used to ensure timely and accurate communication between different entities, including suppliers, warehouses, and transportation providers. IBM MQ can be cost-prohibitive for smaller organizations due to licensing and maintenance costs. In such cases, open-source or lightweight messaging solutions may be more appropriate. For scenarios requiring extremely low-latency, real-time data exchange, and high throughput, other messaging technologies, like Apache Kafka, may be more suitable due to their specialized design for such use cases.

IBM MQ is a way of passing information between the system and the application. It is very easy to make and maintain applications in easier way. Its robust and reliable secure messaging solution is very impressive for us. Its wide range of API and language commands is very impressive. It working features of a broad range of computing platforms are also beneficial for us.

Message delivery guaranteed, IBM MQ supports the communication of exchange of information between the system and service via the queue. Also, they don't need to modify the existing application. Security risk while delivering the message, Performance problems sometimes it increased response rate, sometimes expected heavy use of resources.

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

I rate it 10 because the messaging formatting is good. it has reduced our issues on swift, as duplicates have been reduced as result of proper message formatting

IBM MQ is heavily use by applicative portfolio (most of them are legacy) to liaise with other systems. Asynchonous message with high volumes with performance constraints

If you have high volumes of messages to handle with performance contraint this tool is partculiary recommended. Furthermore it's easy to setup and to use. Good monitoring tooling and reply capability in case of error

We use IBM MQ to update automate updating data sets in multiple applications. This saves us a lot of tedious work since we only have to update one and it updates all of them.

In my line of work we just use it to automate data entry into multiple applications and it works very well for this task.