WebSphere MQ for z/OS

Versatile messaging integration for z/OS systems

• Extend your messaging middleware solution to include integration with z/OS systems.
• Integrate your messaging backbone with any mix of heterogeneous applications using varied programming languages and communication protocols with support for more than 80 platform configurations, including native z/OS, IBM CICS®, IBM IMS™, IBM DB2®, Microsoft .NET and Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) environments.
• Use enhanced WebSphere MQ clients for increased messaging throughput and system availability.
• Work with language-independent commands that do not require communications programming knowledge.
• Use the same integration infrastructure to work with messages, files, web services, mobile devices and mainframe computers.

High-performance, mainframe message processing

• Integrates publish-and-subscribe support with the WebSphere MQ for z/OS queue manager.
• Takes advantage of enhanced Java message service (JMS) performance.
• Uses shared message data sets (SMDS) to offload sysplex shared messages for improved performance and control.
• Extends integration with IMS to provide higher availability to applications, improved transaction expiration and enhanced resource monitoring.
• Provides enhanced integration with CICS for improved queue sharing group processes.

Assured message delivery with security-rich services

• 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.

Administrative features

• Take advantage of the integrated capabilities of IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition and IBM WebSphere Advanced Message Security directly within the WebSphere MQ server.
• Get a dashboard view of enterprise messaging traffic to quickly gain insight into messaging operations and infrastructure.
• Configure your setup to deliver a less-robust quality of service that can increase performance.
• Send and receive messages even when applications fail or networks are down.
• Simplify application integration tasks by using a functionally rich application development interface.

Open standards development tools

• Configure and manage individual aspects of your WebSphere MQ implementation using WebSphere MQ Explorer.
• Support remote graphical configuration of Java message service (JMS) and publish-and-subscribe messaging for enhanced ease of use.
• Enable devices such as smartphones, remote sensors, smart meters and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.
• Use extended verbs and behaviors with the message queue interface (MQI) for improved developer productivity.
• Create a richer, Web 2.0 user experience by connecting HTTP applications with the WebSphere MQ messaging backbone.