WebSphere MQ

Versatile messaging integration from mainframe to mobile

• Uses single messaging middleware shared by your entire enterprise, spanning mainframe computers, mobile devices and cloud computing.
• Integrates with a mix of heterogeneous applications with support for more than 80 platform configurations, including native IBM z/OS®, IBM CICS®, IBM IMS™, IBM DB2®, Microsoft .NET and Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) environments.
• Sends and receives a broad range of content from small transactional messages to large video files.
• Works with language-independent commands that do not require communications programming knowledge.
• Uses the same integration infrastructure to work with messages, files, web services, mobile devices, and remote physical devices such as sensors.

Message delivery with security-rich features

• Sign messages digitally to deliver tamper-proof messages.
• Deliver information synchronously or asynchronously.
• Transport messages as a single, complete transaction to deliver one-time-only data exchange.
• Support secure sockets layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) protocols for authentication, integrity checking and encryption of data.
• Strengthen compliance with security policies through the use of end-to-end encryption, secure configurations and audit reporting.

High-performance message transport

• Uses point-to-point, publish-and-subscribe, file transfer and multicast operation modes.
• Takes advantage of clustering capabilities that dynamically distribute messaging workloads.
• Enables applications with different performance characteristics to operate independently, preventing bottlenecks within the same WebSphere MQ cluster.
• Delivers messages decoupled from application activity, eliminating the need for applications to check message delivery status.
• Sends and receives messages even when applications fail or networks are down.

Administrative features

• Integrate the capabilities of IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition and IBM WebSphere Advanced Message Security within the WebSphere MQ server.
• Get a single dashboard view of enterprise messaging traffic to quickly gain insight into messaging operations and infrastructure throughout the enterprise.
• Deploy WebSphere MQ in distributed environments using a single installation process.
• Configure your setup to deliver a less-robust quality of service that can increase performance.
• Simplify application integration tasks by using a functionally rich, easy-to-use application development interface.

Open standards development tools

• Develop and deploy new applications faster without writing application-specific communications code.
• Enable devices such as smartphones, remote sensors, smart meters and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags with a lightweight, dedicated protocol.
• Configure and manage individual aspects of your WebSphere MQ implementation using WebSphere MQ Explorer.
• Provide a messaging foundation for enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture.
• Use the message queue interface (MQI) application programming standard and the Java message service (JMS).