WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ is the market-leading messaging integration middleware product. Over more than 15 years WebSphere MQ (or MQSeries® as it wasknown in earlier versions) has grown to provide flexible and reliable solutions that address the wide range of requirements introduced in the previous chapter.

WebSphere MQ is a key component in IBM's service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy providing the universal messaging backbone across 80 different platforms. The growing importance of SOA and the growth of Web Services and other connectivity mechanisms are clearly important developments. WebSphere MQ can perform,

  • Program-to-Program messaging across multiple platform
  • Transferring data to the destination without data loss
  • Key system connects together to provide seamless service over the web and in store
  • Publish Information that any employee can subscribe to : Pub/Sub is primarily intended for situations where a single message may need to be distributed to multiple applications.
  • Automates &Tracks business process
  • Secure Access Information
  • Respond faster by having your application connected with each other.
  • It provides a means for transforming data between different architectures and protocols, such as Big Endian to Little Endian, or EBCDIC to ASCII


Many enhancements have been added to WebSphere MQ during its evolution in the marketplace, including:

  • WebSphere MQ Clients: Enables an application to connect remotely or locally to a WebSphere MQ queue manager.
  • Publish/Subscribe: Increases messaging capability from point-to-point messaging to a less coupled style of messaging.
  • MQ Clusters: Allow multiple instances of the same service to be hosted through multiple queue managers, to enable load-balancing and fail-over and simplify administration.
  • Secure Sockets Layer support: SSL protocol can be used to secure communication between queue managers or MQ Client.
  • Diverse platforms: WebSphere MQ supports a wide range of operating system platforms.


Integration and supported environments:

  • Helps integrate virtually anything, with support for more than 80 platform configurations, including native z/OS support, with IBM and Business Partner offerings.
  • Integrates CICS, IMS™, DB2®, Microsoft® .NET and J2EE™ environments.
  • Supports both de facto Message Queue Interface (MQI) and industry standard JMS V1.1 interface, with
  • integrated publish-and-subscribe support.
  • Supports secure Internet communication with industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
  • Supports IPV6 and awarded Common Criteria certification.
  • Offers end-to-end governance with Extended Security Edition.
  • Offers scalability, availability and performance that grows with your needs.