IBM MQ Stability
It's very reliable and stable. We haven't received any frequent challenges.
We have sufficient memory and storage. From a network point of view, the TCP/IP protocols are challenging.
View full review »RR
Rajender Reddy
Software Development Manager at Reliance Jio
The solution is an older product and very stable. Our product teams never have issues with it.
View full review »SS
Sunil Sahoo
Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
We have only had issues with the IBM GPFS File System, but that is a different product. We had an issue when we wanted to have an Active-Active deployment architecture across our production and disaster recovery site. We wanted the same MQ server to fail over to the disaster recovery site and come up from the state in which it went down on the production site. To achieve that we need a synchronous file system that is able to replicate the same data on the other side.
View full review »Buyer's Guide
IBM MQ
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM MQ. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
MA
Mohammad Al-Smadi
Product Development Manager at Arab Bank
MQ is stable, but we face some limitations with redundancy.
View full review »MT
reviewer1579410
Head Of Operations at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very stable.
View full review »VM
Vjacheslav Mikitjuk
Director of Internet Technologies Division at IBA Group
It is a stable solution. I rate the stability nine out of ten.
Product-wise, there is no problem with the stability.
That said, when there are a lot of messages, I may need to increase the bandwidth or the queue size. If I have to increase the queue size, maybe I can increase it to even a million, however, in the down sessions, when I extract the transaction, it takes a lot of time. When I want to see what information is inside the queue when I extract it, it takes much more time, which could be looked into. It might be a performance issue or something. It might not happen every time. Whenever there is an issue with a large set of transactions, for example, if, in a minute, you get a lot of transactions, we might have an issue. Still, it rarely happens.
View full review »RJ
Rahul Jayakumar Lekha
Integration Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Stability-wise, we have no problems. It's very stable.
View full review »The stability is good. In fact, we have not seen any issues. Only recently have we observed an issue. There was a limit on the number of messages it could contain. We are having an issue now, however, we have not usually seen any issues related to IBM MQ. Therefore, in general, the solution is stable. I'd rate its reliability eight out of ten.
View full review »JJ
Jitendra Jethwa
Websphere MQ Specialist at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees
The product offers good stability. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable in terms of performance.
View full review »MB
Mat Brudar
Senior Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
It's stable. I'm working for a FT 500 company, a global company employing about 60,000 people, and we've been using this product ever since I joined the company in 2003. We haven't had a single major performance issue or crash.
View full review »There were no issues in regards to the stability or scalability so far. Like I mentioned elsewhere, I've been using it for years now and it has really matured, at this point. We are really happy.
View full review »We haven’t had any stability problems at all. Stability has been outstanding. We went from multi-instance queue managers, which worked fine, except they worked often. That wasn't good for us. So it was a perceived outage for our clients. The availability has been outstanding with the MQ appliance.
View full review »IF
reviewer1959375
ExaminerExaminer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM MQ is stable, performs well, and is highly reliable. They guarantee message delivery.
View full review »AA
Amr-Adel
It division head at MOI kuwait
I rate IBM MQ ten out of ten for stability.
View full review »LL
Luis Lascano
Solutions Director at Thesys Technologies
IBM MQ is very stable. It's the best server in terms of interconnectivity. The reliability that the MQ series has, I haven't seen in other servers that are also based in MQ.
View full review »SM
reviewer1519440
Senior Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very stable. We have not had issues, except for the connection dropouts which could be related to the machine we are using.
View full review »In regards to the stability of the product itself, it's pretty good. However, it depends on the configuration as well. Overall, the stability is good.
View full review »It's a very stable product. Being one of IBM's high-end messaging solution, it's a very robust product.
View full review »Stability is unrivaled. We've got no problems with it. It's like the mainframes. When you're looking at five nines for availability, it's there all the time. MQ is there all the time. If we have a problem, it's not part of the conversation. It's more of a case of a database on the other end that we're using as a repository is having a problem. You can go out there, store the messages, and guarantee delivery if there are any interruptions. It just works for us.
View full review »GT
George Thomas
Lead Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is rock-solid and stable.
View full review »VP
reviewer1079856
Lead Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
In terms of stability, IBM has proven to be very rare. It's a very stable product.
We test in very large volumes.
We tested ActiveMQ and it's nowhere close to IMB MQ.
View full review »The stability is pretty good, so far. We had some challenges with some of the clustering during initial setup. But once that was done properly, it was quite stable.
View full review »I'm satisfied with the stability.
View full review »We have stability in our environment because of the product. We can keep adding solutions to the mixture and it still performs as is, which is again a more stable process.
View full review »We've used it for many, many years. We use it on the client, a regular Windows platform. We also use it really, really heavily on the mainframe side, and it's very stable. We've had very few problems with it. When we do have problems with it, it's usually the application, not the actual MQ solution.
View full review »NK
reviewer1688772
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
IBM MQ is reliable.
View full review »SS
reviewer1466346
Senior Technology Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We had stability issues with the solution. I would be looking at replacing the product, but I am not in charge.
View full review »MA
Mohammad Al-Smadi
Product Development Manager at Arab Bank
It's very stable.
View full review »EC
Eduardo Cano
Architect & System Engineer at Servicio de Impuestos Internos
We are happy with the solution. It is stable and doesn't require much maintenance. Two people maintain this solution: an architect and engineer.
View full review »We have a rather large implementation. Perhaps, the largest one on the planet and from a stability perspective, it's very stable, i.e., when it's used appropriately.
View full review »It's one of our more stable products on the CMS platform. We really haven't had any issues with that in terms of severity incidents, at least of what I'm aware of for the last three years.
It's very stable; we've not had to dedicate a lot of resources to support the product and that's a plus.
View full review »The solution is stable.
View full review »RS
Rohit K Sharma
Ops Innovation Platform Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's been a pretty reliable and well structured solution so far.
View full review »WK
Walter Kuhn
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We don't have a problem with stability.
View full review »Stability is really good, actually. We haven't had any issues with IBM MQ .
View full review »It's pretty stable. We did not experience any downtime. Probably, there's no other product out there like MQ for messaging. It's the most reliable solution. We had our MQ running in production for almost 800-900 days without any issues, i.e., for more than three years, we didn't even have to restart, and still everything runs so smoothly.
View full review »Very stable. Within the last year or so we hardly had any issues with the MQ or the queue itself going down.
View full review »The stability is quite good. It's strong and the performance is important.
View full review »Stability is very good.
View full review »It's very stable.
View full review »NK
reviewer1302078
Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The stability of the solution is very good. I would give it a nine out of 10. The main features are its reliability and availability and, as a messaging platform, it's very good in those areas.
View full review »We are very happy with the stability.
View full review »Stability’s pretty good. I haven't had any issues. Although, in clustering, you have to know exactly what you're doing. Otherwise, your cluster will be out of whack a little bit. Otherwise, it's stable. It's very stable.
View full review »It's very stable. It's been around forever. They have functions and features that are useful. Core-wise, it's a very stable product.
View full review »VZ
reviewer914148
Cloud Integration Leader - Cloud Migration Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
IBM MQ is highly stable.
View full review »PP
Prashant Powar
Senior Middleware Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
IBM MQ is a very stable product. You also get very good support from IBM, but we rarely have to go back to IBM for support.
View full review »It's very stable.
View full review »AA
Abraham Ansah-Cudjoe
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The MQ service has never gone down and has never failed us. It is only offline when the VM is offline.
View full review »GB
Gurvijay Bhatti
Senior Solutions Architect at Department of Justice
We did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »MQ is very stable. It's a very simple application to set up, and once it is set you don't have to really configure or monitor it so much.
View full review »We are absolutely happy with the stability.
View full review »It's been stable. Stability hasn't been a problem, as long as you have enough capacity. It's all about sizing it right for the size of your environment.
View full review »Like most of the IBM products, it's pretty stable. We haven't really had any real challenges. We run it on the mainframe as well as open systems and both are incredibly stable.
View full review »IBM MQ's stability is good.
View full review »The product's stability is really good. I have recently heard that they're introducing a separate appliance for this. That's going to be a very good step for everyone.
View full review »It's very stable. We've been using it for quite some time now, 8-10 years.
View full review »It is very stable. We’ve had outages and downtime but, out of about 9,000 servers, we'll have a couple go down a month. Overall, that's pretty good.
View full review »RV
reviewer1444734
IT Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Its stability is great.
View full review »I think the stability is great. That's one of the assets IBM MQ is known for.
View full review »It is a very stable product. We have been using it for more than ten years. It is very stable.
View full review »I know that they're coming out next with IBM MQ Version 9 or 10, so they are always updating the versions. It is a very stable product.
We did experience some security issues with the older versions. As of now, people can log in as root, i.e., whoever wants to log in as root, they can. However, with the new version, they're taking that away.
View full review »It is very stable.
View full review »Stability is a hallmark of the product. It's extremely reliable. We set up a queue and we say, “Go,” and we have virtually zero issues with it. Considering that it's interfacing with multiple different products, it's remarkably reliable.
It's one of those things where, if somebody says there's a problem, you're like, "What? That can't be possible." We really haven't really had any outages to speak of.
View full review »FT
Fran Tomas
Architect at T-Systems International GmbH
IBM MQ is a stable solution, it is used mainframe computers and it is secure.
View full review »IBM HQ's stability is great - we send six million messages a day, and we're very satisfied with HQ's ability to handle that volume.
View full review »NT
reviewer1164303
Service Delivery Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
This product is used on a daily basis and it is quite stable. In terms of reliability, I would rate it a five out of five.
View full review »DB
reviewer1626039
Software Engineering Expert at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We have had stability issues using the solution for some of our projects.
View full review »The solution is very stable. There are some bugs, but they are very small.
View full review »PM
PrabhasMishra
Technical Manager at MetLife
For the last three years, I haven't faced any stability issues. I would rate the stability as a nine (out of 10).
View full review »I have a very high impression of the stability of MQ; we haven't had any problems with it. MQ has been very stable. I think we've had it go down once since I've been here, but it was due to something somebody screwed up somewhere else, not MQ's fault.
View full review »IBM MQ is stable.
View full review »The solution is stable.
View full review »Not applicable.
View full review »It's very robust. It's stable. Whenever we have a situation where our listener is down for some reason, MQ has the capacity to put those messages into some queues where we can retrieve them later on.
It has those alerts built-in. It tells our operation that the queues are getting filled up and they need some attention. We have those kinds of features turned on.
View full review »It's very stable.
View full review »Lately, it hasn't been that stable. We're using multi-instance queue managers and we're having a lot of issues with storage and that affects the availability of the queue manager.
View full review »It's very stable.
View full review »It's pretty stable. I don't work with the support of it much, so I'm a general user.
We do have issues from time to time, but because our environment is so complex, it's hard to say whether it's MQ's fault or the messages coming in and out of MQ. I deal a lot with performance and capacity. When there are capacity concerns, when there is too much taking up the system’s CPU, it's difficult to see where the issue lies, but I would say it's been solid for what I use it for.
View full review »SM
reviewer1127196
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The stability has been good. The performance is reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
View full review »AS
reviewer1644639
Technical Specialist at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is good.
View full review »SR
Srinivasa Reddy
Assistant Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable, for sure.
View full review »We've been using it for ten plus years now, so it's been good.
View full review »Stability-wise, it has worked for us. It is an old technology and it has always worked well for us.
View full review »Stability is great. We have not had any issues recently. Version 7 was a tough one, but since then, they've improved it.
View full review »Normally, the system is very stable but we've actually just got a call, "Part of it's down!" So, at the moment, we have got a bit of downtime.
View full review »Stability is great. Stability is rock solid. We have very few issues with it.
View full review »It’s very stable.
View full review »It’s up 24/7.
View full review »It is extremely stable.
View full review »It's extremely stable. We very seldom have any issue with it. We have it clustered between z/OS and zLinux. We've never had any serious problem with it.
View full review »VP
Vlad Popa
Integration Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is stable.
View full review »VB
reviewer1370595
IT Development Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The stability of the solution is good. We've never run into any issues.
View full review »UR
Upendra Rao
Independent Consultant at State Bank of India
It is stable.
View full review »We have not had stability issues.
View full review »There is no downtime. It is very stable.
View full review »I haven't had any stability issues. I think the biggest thing, when there are issues, is having an easy way to figure out what's going on. I think one of the things that I'm looking forward to, from a MQ perspective, is just having more of a user-friendly experience. MQ has traditionally been somewhat of a command-style solution, so anything that they could do to improve that would definitely be helpful.
View full review »Stability is pretty good, really. We have not had any downtime.
View full review »Stability is awesome. MQ is up all the time. We never have an MQ issue. The interfaces that feed into MQ are quite stable and the APIs associated with it are quite proficient. MQ is a very efficient piece of software from a CPU utilization perspective, which I'm interested in. It's very productive and it's quite tuned in terms of performance.
View full review »It is solid. We have no stability problems with MQ.
View full review »Stability is good. It's okay.
View full review »Stability is pretty good. We haven't had issues from a stability perspective. It seemed to always be running. Everyone seems to say, "Hey, it's an MQ issue." Once you look at it, though, the bottleneck is always somewhere else.
View full review »GT
George Thomas
Lead Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is good.
View full review »SN
Sanjeev Nirala
Senior Technical Architect at Nagarro
It is a stable product. The reliability is better than open source software solutions. MQ performs even in extreme conditions.
View full review »We have not had any issues with stability.
View full review »It's solid. It's one of the few things that just runs, and runs, and runs.
View full review »For the stability of this product, I would give it a 9/10 rating. Only sometimes when some queue manager dies, then at that point, we lose a couple of messages but not a whole lot.
View full review »Stability is very strong. We haven't had any issues.
View full review »ME
solution259344
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We have not encountered any stability issues.
View full review »Stability-wise, it's very good. People have been using it for 15 to 20 years. MQ and IIB are the most stable products from IBM.
View full review »Stability is rock-solid.
View full review »The stability is very good, actually. In our organization, we saw almost 99.9% uptime for the product.
View full review »With the newest version, we haven't really had any stability or scalability issues. I guess that's a good thing.
With the previous versions, it was just that we were a version behind on what the version of Maximo and everything we were using, so it was causing a few little glitches and buggy issues.
View full review »We never had stability issues. The issues are there only when you are configuring for the first time. Once you get the right configuration, then you can actually forget about the fact that there is MQ.
View full review »We have not experienced any stability issues. We have been running this for almost about five years now. I don't think, up to this day, we've had any server down issues primarily because of MQ, i.e., the product itself. It's very stable.
View full review »We are happy with the stability.
View full review »It's rock solid.
View full review »KG
reviewer1037130
Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is absolutely perfect when it is running on AIX. However, I have experienced some issues with certain Linux distributions. With AIX, I have not had any problems with IBM MQ. With other flavors of Linux, there is some instability whereby the MQ configuration parameters are not giving the proper information. From this, I have concluded that the stability of MQ depends on the Linux distribution that it is running on.
MR
Mohamed Ramses
IT Consultant at Ministry of Justice, Kuwait
There have been no issues with the stability of the solution.
View full review »AS
reviewer1319070
IT Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The stability is okay.
View full review »KP
reviewer1317309
Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
View full review »There were not many stability issues, for sure. MQ is predominately a stable product, right from the z System days. I started out my career with z Systems, so we used MQ with part of the integration and it really helped us.
View full review »The stability is good. I mean we do have some issues but we always contact IBM whenever we have performance-based issues and we get solutions quick and fast.
View full review »I don't know about the stability.
View full review »I can say that it's stable.
View full review »DS
Dameer Siddiqui
Works at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
View full review »This product has very strong stability. We don't have interruption problems.
View full review »CM
Reviewer397
Principal Solution Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I believe the stability of the product has decreased since we began using it initially.
View full review »The solution is very stable.
View full review »SB
reviewer1753083
Sr. Middleware/Data Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is stable.
View full review »IS
reviewer1181517
Project Manager/System Architect/Senior Mainframe System Engineer/Integration Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is very stable.
View full review »SP
reviewer1046859
Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The stability looks good.
View full review »I've had very good luck with it. It's a little bit slow when you open it, but once you're inside, it seems to respond very well.
View full review »Good stability.
View full review »NT
reviewer1164303
Service Delivery Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The stability and performance are good and our customers are happy with these aspects. In my years working with it I haven't seen many issues, and with the type of support IBM provides, it has been fine.
View full review »RH
reviewer1289778
freelance at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
MQ is known for its stability.
View full review »For the most part, it is stable. Sometimes, we have issues, but they are internal issues.
View full review »Buyer's Guide
IBM MQ
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM MQ. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.