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IBM MQ (formerly WebSphere MQ and MQSeries) is messaging middleware.IBMIBM MQ- The leader in the Middleware domain2019-04-30T15:06:20.495ZI work for the banking sector. Hence security, reliability and wire speed are of the essence in this domain. We have been working with the IBM MQ for more than 4 years now and it is implemented in almost all our middle-ware projects. The integration of IBM MQ with Message broker and Datapower is very smooth and they inherently support the MQ protocol. We require millions of transactions to be processed each day and IBM MQ does that without any Issues. IBM MQ in a nutshell provides powerful, reliable, security-rich messaging platform that helps you connect your different applications, systems, and services in a coherent manner.,IBM MQ has proved to be very stable and secure platform and we never had an incident being reported of event dropping or hacking.
It has really increased our transaction capacity and now we are able to accommodate huge volumes of transactions without making any new changes.
There is no risk of a message being lost or repeated again, which is a highly appreciated quality when you are dealing with sensitive data.
The queue manager clustering make the best use of the available resources and use them to their full potential.,IBM MQ has quite a hefty cost associated with it, if you are creating new queue managers for each team rather than sharing them. They charge you for every new queue manager and also for the maintenance of the existing ones.
It should be capable of sending Notifications and alerts in case of failures, but that part is not handled very well and reporting is also one of the features missing in the current MQ setup.
It should have a good GUI for linux as well. Currently it is only present in the windows interface which has many options available at the click of button for which in Linux we need to execute commands and develop scripts.,9,IBM MQ definitely has helped us scale our business and make it more secure and available than before.
We have very little to no message loss, hence we are having very few incidents to deal with. We have deployed special scripts which log all the activities on a particular queue manager and the logs are exported to another server where they are continuously monitored for error codes or messages.
We are able to integrate with multiple clients now and assign the external clients a particular set of SSL certs which could be installed on one of the queue managers and you just need to make a client connection and you are done.,SQLite, IBM API Connect, Azure SQL DatabaseVerified UserStay out of the queue with IBM MQ2018-04-02T20:03:20.498ZOur projects usually handle a high number of transactions that must be controlled by queue mechanisms through Middlewares. This is important, especially when working with microservices. This is where IBM MQ comes in to address the problem of high transaction concurrency. IBM MQ is used by our development team for many of our solutions.,Fault tolerance
Performance
Security,Learning Curve
Has a high price
Specific configurations,9,Minimization of incidents due to failures in execution, which translates into cost savings.
Since it has a cost unlike some open source mechanism, if IBM MQ is implemented without the respective cost analysis, you may end up spending more than you should.,Mule MQ,Apache Maven, Apache CloudStack, IBM WebSphere Studio Application DeveloperMiguel Angel Merino VegaMQ stood the test of time2017-10-05T14:24:10.568ZWe use MQ and MFT/MQ across the company as a messaging and file transfer protocol. MQ is the default protocol for asynchronous messaging between applications and the ESB. MQ/MFT is used for applications that can only integrate using files.,Reliable: With properly written client code and queue managers set up correctly for the use-case, MQ will handle whatever you throw at it and just keep on going.
Mature: The product has been around for more than 20 years and has stood the test of time.
Easy of use: Administering MQ could be mastered with minimum effort.,Setting up security can be time-consuming and take some effort.
MQ Explorer on the client side could sometimes be a pain especially on Windows and during an upgrade.
IBM is not providing a good administration tool like MQMon included with the product.,9,IBM licensing across the board is difficult to understand and manage. You need to install ILMT to report on usage and the software is difficult to configure. You need to invest additional resource and time to give IBM reports so that they can check your licensing.,WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere DataPower Gateway, Oracle DatabaseAmanda ErlankIBM MQ - ping me2017-09-13T19:26:39.911ZIBM MQ is used to facilitate data transfer between business partners. We utilize the high availability, persistent features to guarantee data delivery.,Fantastic quality of product services and features.
Security is of great importance and MQ satisfies our needs.
Interoperability with customers for data collection and sharing is made easy through IBM MQ.
Support is always one PMR away.,Monitoring is generally a feature left to third party apps. Providing better monitoring tool would be a great market differentiator.
Built in alarms and notifications (see above improvement) would be helpful.
GUI modeling of queue managers, channels and queues would be a good improvement.,7,Positive gains in data sharing. The time to market to set up new customers is relatively easy. Not touchless but easy.
Few maintenance costs. It just works.
Upgrades are painless so little money is spent on them, yielding positive ROIs.,Activemq, HornetQ and Kafka,WebSphere Portal, IBM InfoSphere Information Server, Apache Web Server, Apache TomcatGregory HansonIn IBM MQ we trust2017-10-31T18:54:18.317ZIBM MQ is within the core processes of the bank information flow. It is used by all the banking group as it is the platform that assures the understandable connectivity between the main frame, EAI solutions, or even providing direct access to API and web based applications. It ensures trustworthy and secure information flow, resilient to failures.,Security is a major improvement in IBM MQ 9. Authorization management became more granular and effective.
Programmer friendly. Not only does MQ work great, it provides with MQ specific and JMS-standards access to important functions for the developers to perform better.,I still haven't managed to find a clear way to workout MQ clustering. I guess the information available is weak and the product has limitations.,10,I dont chew numbers, but I guess that a solid investment faithfully following around 15 years of the product timeline is proof of the confidence it gave/gives and the effect it has performed on the proposed strategies.,TIBCO EMS,Oracle WebLogic Application Server, WebSphere Application ServerVerified User
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