IBM MQ Valuable Features

Sanjay Sahu - PeerSpot reviewer
People Manager at Capgemini

IBM MQ is robust compared to other products in the market. It also gives you support from the IBM team. We can connect to the IBM technical team in case of any production fault or errors.

For security, we have IBM MQ instead of any other products.

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MB
Senior Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

I like the MQ's simplicity and rock-solid stability. I've never experienced a failure in two decades caused by the product itself. It has only failed due to human error. 

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RR
Software Development Manager at Reliance Jio

The solution is fast with end data compared to other messaging tools. 

With integration tools, the node is connected with the queue manager so there is some dependency. In the solution's latest version, the dependency was removed which allows us to create servers without any interdependencies.

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IBM MQ
March 2024
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SS
Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have been using the normal messaging along with channel authorization. 

At certain times — although not in this bank, in my previous experience — we had used the message authorization on top of the queue. That meant that the moment a user tried to write a message it would be authorized before it was written. 

In the ESB architecture, MQ is used to decouple synchronous consumer specific web services calls from the host system calls, by implementing state management. Request and response message matching rely on MQ Message ID & Correlation ID (MQMD header properties).

Message load balancing being implemented using MQ or achieving high throughput, while Message affinity ensures response messages are propagated to the very same host system which had generated the request message.

MQ publish subscribe feature being used to for notification where multiple instance of one or more applications can subscribe to the same topic at different time. 

Message expiry features ensures the redundant or unwanted messages are expired automatically from the MQ based on the settings. This feature is being used at times to ensure no duplication of payments.

Message persistence feature ensures the message availability even after any planned/unplanned downtime.

MQMFT feature ensures files are delivered asynchronously and complete file transfers are automated.

MQ authorization can help to ensure high level of security in accessing the messages from a MQ server or sending messages via MQ channels between two or more systems. 

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MT
Head Of Operations at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I have found the solution to be very robust. It has a strong reputation, easy to use, simple to configure in our enterprise software, and supports all the protocols that we use.

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VM
Director of Internet Technologies Division at IBA Group

The interface is good, and we work using API functionality in the main part of our projects. The solution is easy to understand and even medium developers can easily start using it.

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Manjunath-V - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Tata Consultancy Services

I haven't used 100% of the IBM product. That said, the message transformation is very good. My application may not always be running, yet even if it is off, whenever I stick on my applications, I get all the messages that I'm supposed to get. Also, the sending functionality of the application may not always be on. I can keep sending the message, and they will get my messages when their applications turn on.

The initial setup is easy.

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RJ
Integration Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The reliability is great. You will not see a case of a message loss in IBM MQ unless there's a queue full or there's some issue with the capacity of the queue. I haven't seen any issues with respect to the message loss. That's the main thing I like about MQ.

It's very robust.

It's a stable product.

Support is helpful and there is lots of good documentation available. 

The solution can potentially scale. 

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Manoj Satpathy - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant consultant at vvolve management consultants

The publish and subscribe features are the most useful aspects of the solution.

It's not too difficult to set up the solution. 

It's stable.

Technical support is quite helpful. 

The moment you send the data, there is no latency there.

We haven't experienced any data loss. 

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DP
Enterprise Architect & Solutions Architect at AIA Australia

I think the whole product is useful. Their database and all is very good, and the product is fine. The fact that it ensures message delivery is probably the most important thing. I also like that you're able to trace and track everything. If it doesn't arrive at the destination, it will go back to the queue, and no message will be lost.

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JJ
Websphere MQ Specialist at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees

The messaging queue is the main feature that we use. We use other products like publish and subscribe, which are very useful to us as well. 

We can share data and other people can subscribe to it. 

The solution is very stable.

The solution can scale well.

We've found the installation to be extremely straightforward and well laid out.

It's easy to maintain, easy to administer, and easy to see what's going on there. Overall, it's a good product.

Technical support is excellent.

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AdelAmer - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration developer at Central bank of Egypt

It is useful for exchanging information between applications. 

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MB
Senior Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

I like the whole idea. But the first things are its simplicity and its robustness. Compared to any other product, it's the most robust I've worked with. And it's extremely easy to manage.

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it_user631662 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's wonderful and is our primary backbone for moving data across different applications, within our company. Especially when we're talking about the healthcare and pharmacy industries, where we have patients' critical data, this is what we use to move data across. It's our backbone for data transmission.

The important thing for us at this point is the amount of data that we move, the guaranteed delivery and message affinity that it offers. These are very critical features when you talk about patient data.

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it_user631758 - PeerSpot reviewer
MQV Admin at Allstate

I like its ease of administration. We just recently moved to the MQ appliance and the high availability (HA) feature is outstanding. We're really, really pleased with it and the power of the appliance itself. When you throw more work at it, the faster it goes.

For example, when you're doing maintenance, you can fail over the entire group of queue managers in that HA group or you can fail them individually if you'd like. So, it's very helpful that way. But that's the manual fail over. The automatic fail over is what we are really interested in. We did have an appliance go down. Everything failed over and none of our clients knew of it. So it was very good. We were very pleased with that.

The user interface is good. The command line version of it, MQ CLI, is good. The web user interface is really handy; really a good feature.

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IF
ExaminerExaminer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is it has all the features necessary for contemporary messaging, not only for the financial industry but for any application.

IBM MQ has developed into some newer solutions. It has a message broker, it is now on the cloud, it has containerization, that has high availability features

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AA
It division head at MOI kuwait

IBM MQ is an easy-to-use and stable solution.

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LL
Solutions Director at Thesys Technologies

What I found most valuable in this software is its reliability because messages that are sent into the queues are consumed by the other end of the connectivity. It has helped us maintain integration between two different systems, so that has been part of one of the layers of our architecture that communicates, for example, a back-end platform and back-end core system with a front-end platform. In our case, we are using the backend as a 224 banking system and the frontend we are using the Wall Street front office system. Those two systems are interconnected via the IBM MQ series.

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it_user632802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature of this product is that it provides guaranteed message delivery. This is important for us because we want to have guaranteed message delivery and integrity; we cannot lose that message.

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it_user632739 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

MQ is a very affordable and easy to use messaging product. I like how fast you can write an API and send a message. Thus, its versatility, portability and easy to use functionality are valuable features of this product.

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it_user523131 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Project Manager - Infrastructure Delivery (Mainframe Services) at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the fact that it's guaranteed delivery; it's conversational. A lot of our transactions are basically transactions back and forth between either rewards members, reservations and even between our databases. MQ gives us guaranteed delivery.

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GT
Lead Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

All the features are valuable.

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VP
Lead Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features are RDQM and queue sharing.

There has been a lot of improvement in architecture. It handles better with the new architecture such as Cloud, and Cloud-on-premises integrations.

Also, how Kubernetes can be deployed is helpful.

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it_user632745 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Unit Head at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

One of the most important features is data persistence. Anytime there is a failure or an unexpected outage, the data is still there. That is one of the biggest benefits of MQ on WebSphere.

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it_user631668 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager Z at BBVA

It allows us to process online transactions for our customers and we can connect between open system platforms and CID platforms. I think this is the most important.

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it_user631794 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Principal Integration Architect at Sabre

It is very robust and very scalable.

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it_user523119 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Computing Services at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it in a number of our applications for message queuing. As a broker dealer, it gives us the ability to queue things up and to send them out at a different time; and it works really well. We go to different reports, and get options and other features from other areas, so we need to queue up the MQ piece of it, have it wait, and then release it when we're ready to release it. That's a great feature.

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NK
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There are so many good things with IBM MQ networking. So many complicated issues arise when you're trying to configure your network, and MQ helps by providing the clustering. In our project architecture, we have a cluster that distinguishes between major requests from applications. There is also a centralized cluster. Let's suppose 10 applications are connecting to that cluster. In each application, we add differently. 

If I need to add multiple features to the centralized cluster, we can create another cluster. From there, the GMG is connected. Also, clusters can provide a backup. So suppose this solution faces some failure, like a power outage, MQ can automatically redistribute the load to other servers. 

We are using the synchronizer and another module in our product. We are stepping the connection from the IBM channel. After that, we can send or receive any message. This is synchronizing. We are handling the clustering, and we have created a design for how the NP is built with the partner.

IBM is still adding some features and coding some other systems on the security end. However, it has the most security features I've seen in a communication solution. Security is the most important thing for our purposes.

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SS
Senior Technology Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable features I have found to be the message queue itself and its ability to bridge between mainframe type services to distributed services.

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MA
Product Development Manager at Arab Bank

The most valuable feature is the stability. It's perfect in this way. 

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EC
Architect & System Engineer at Servicio de Impuestos Internos

The high availability and session recovery are the most valuable features because we need the solution live all day.

The product gives us security.

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it_user632754 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are the transactional semantics around messaging, and some of the reliability that they have built-in, from disaster recovery and deliver-once, and at most months, schemes for messages.

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it_user631704 - PeerSpot reviewer
DB2 Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Specifically for MQ, the most valuable feature is the ability for us to deliver messages between applications using the MQ message queuing.

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Ahmed Elgrouney - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Integration Developer at ISFP

We have found the security and monitoring capabilities of the product most valuable. The product helps us monitor messages with other queues, view duplicated messages and control undelivered messages so they can be stored in pack-out queues and restored. We like more than one feature in MQ as the product is secure. For example, we can exchange messages between all parties with a stake and have control of undelivered and unrouted messages. Furthermore, with a scheme of validation, we can report access.

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RS
Ops Innovation Platform Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Encryption and the fact that we have not had any data loss issues so far have been very valuable features. IBM MQ is well encrypted so that we are well within our compliance and regulatory requirements, so that is a plus point as well.

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WK
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The MQ layout is quite easy.

It is very stable. We don't have many issues.

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it_user632751 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

What I like about IBM MQ is that the ability to add applications to it is quite simple. There are a lot of extensible options for security, i.e., various things you can do. It's pretty easy to navigate. It's pretty easy to install and use from that perspective. Those are the things that I really like about it. It's our web hosting application of choice over using something like Tomcat or whatever because you can click through it, you can see things, and it's a lot easier from an administrative standpoint.

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it_user632688 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Middleware Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Basically 100% message delivery and how easy it is to integrate the system to another system / .NET / Java applications are the most valuable features. It provides 100% guaranteed message delivery, so you won't lose any messages, even in the event of a MQ failure.

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it_user632670 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager Enterprise Systems Administration at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

It's certainly a product that you can rely on. It delivers the stability and security within our applications that we desire as an organization.

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it_user632748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Leader at Visa

Guaranteed delivery of the messages and then the ability to scale the messages the way we need it according to our application, performance, and scalability.

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it_user631773 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Leader at EDF

The most valuable features of this solution are its reliability, efficiency, and the capacity to bring value.

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it_user523173 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director IT Platform Engineering at Staples

I think the most valuable feature is the scale that it can run at. It runs millions of transactions in our environment on a daily basis, scales and works well.

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it_user523143 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features are content security and content delivery, from a whole network protocol perspective.

It's adapting itself to get into every single component throughout the entire world being Java enabled.

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NK
Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

What we find most valuable is the fact that we can decouple it from the application. If one side is down, but someone in the bank is serving a customer and needs to connect to an account, he can put in the information and wait. When the remote system comes up and connects, we can push messages with the push function. So what is quite useful is the asynchronous function which means we don't lose everything in the bank. Although we use a lot of things synchronously, asynch is the best thing so that no banking information is ever lost, even when the network goes down and comes up.

We can also expand it across many servers with the cluster, using load balancing and failover. We use that extensively as well. The load balancing works absolutely wonderfully.

Overall, it makes us very flexible in the architecture we can use at the moment. When someone comes to us and says, "I need ABC," we can put together the correct solution for him with all our flexibility.

We use Red Hat from a server point of view. With our Linux box, MQ is on the box itself. We use that quite extensively as well. Inside of that, we find the shared HA function quite useful. It allows us to do HA really quickly, compared to how things were before.

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it_user632682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Middleware and Database Systems at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

For MQ, the most valuable feature is our ability to connect our distributed systems back to the mainframe, and pull our legacy data out of the mainframe and bring it down into a modern Java front end.

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it_user523137 - PeerSpot reviewer
Power System Specialists at Fiserv

It can do messaging throughout multiple platforms. That's the major benefit for MQ. At the same time, we use it quite extensively to do messages between the iSeries and the mainframe.

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it_user523155 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability and guaranteed delivery are the most valuable features. It's pretty straightforward to scale out. We use MQ to back our enterprise service bus. Guaranteed delivery is very important for most of the data that we send. Having a product that enables that is very valuable to us.

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VZ
Cloud Integration Leader - Cloud Migration Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We like IBM MQ for our synchronous communications and transactional applications that require a lot of CPS.

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PP
Senior Middleware Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Currently, we are not using many advanced features. We are only using point-to-point MQ. I have previously used features like context-based authentication, SSL authentication, and high availability. These are good and pretty cool features. They make your business reliable.

For critical business needs, everyone uses only IBM MQ. It is the first choice because of its reliability. There is a one-send-and-one-delivery feature. It also has a no-message-loss feature, and because of that, only IBM MQ is used in banking or financial sectors.

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it_user1332093 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is that it's a very strong integration platform and it is quite a monolithic solution. It's got everything.

At the moment we're trying to be a little bit more nimble in terms of how we deliver things for the business. We need to look at using some of the cloud-first as we have invested quite heavily in Azure. So we want to move away from all our legacy data centers and at the right time, we will move into the cloud as much as possible.

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AA
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the Queue Manager, which lies in the middle between our application and our core banking server.

Managing this solution is not difficult.

IBM MQ is very stable, which is important for our core banking application.

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GB
Senior Solutions Architect at Department of Justice

Reliability of message transmissions and ability to replay messages in case message ends up in backout queues.

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it_user631791 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant analyst at Office of Attorney general of Texas

The integration between applications is the most valuable feature. We can use it with multiple applications.

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it_user631665 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's good for messaging, very reliable, and forward compatible, so it makes our life easy when it comes to upgrades.

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it_user631755 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've used other solutions, but the most valuable features of this solution are the search capabilities, consolidating the data and searching through the data. I think that these are some of the key things.

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it_user523146 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Resource Manager at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the ability to connect our different systems fairly seamlessly. Without it, I don't know how we would have connected our mainframe Intel-based systems and Power Systems together. It's the tool that we utilize to make it happen.

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it_user631779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Assistance Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

They keep on increasing the solutions such as for message synchronization. They have really improved it a lot, with major clustering and the high availability that it can do now. I'm still deep diving into the latest version right now. We have been using this solution for a really long time.

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it_user523128 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We use it right now for transferring a lot of big files. Sometimes, for some reason, the file doesn't get all the way to the other side. We do it between different cities. MQ keeps track of it and gets it all done. We at least know if it was half-done or not. We also have scheduled jobs through ESB, but it doesn't send that kind of notification to us. It says whether the script has run or not run. That's all we get. This has been a better product.

Besides that, we do a lot of our jobs through it. We queue them and run them.

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it_user523116 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Integration with my vendor product is the most valuable feature. The vendor strongly prefers MQ. We had a lot of configuration issues when we tried other products. The second-most valuable feature is the stability.

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Yapı Kredi şirketinde Application Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The solution allows one to easily configure an IBM MQQueueManager. It's very easy and demonstrates comparatively better performance than that of other products. It is very good and makes it impossible to lose a message. These are very important advantages of the solution, but the greatest one is its robustness. 

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RV
IT Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Reliable messaging and throughput are the most valuable.

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it_user632736 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Application Integration Specialist at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The pub/sub model is the one that we use heavily on IBM MQ. That's the most valuable for us. We are an enterprise team and we provide a lot of integration to the enterprise systems, so when the data changes on the enterprise systems, we publish a lot of these changes to all the subscribers, whether it's a customer change or the account changes.

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it_user631707 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Middleware Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

WebSphere messaging, clustering and security are the most important and most valuable features.

Security is the most important thing right now. Nowadays, you can see people are hacking into systems to steal customer data. MQ has very good security features and it supports very good protocols.

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it_user632697 - PeerSpot reviewer
Middleware Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use MQ just for transferring messages to and from applications. We get subscriptions, queues, topics and all the app teams love it. It is an easy way to transfer messages, so that's commonly used as a solution for us.

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it_user631656 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Yapi Kredi Bank

Its integration capabilities and the security features are the most valuable features of this product.

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it_user523152 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Technology at Compuware

For us, the most valuable feature is the fact that we can move data from disparate systems quite easily. It's not a mountain of data for us, because of the nature of our business, but it's critical that we move information through the queues, from many varying different systems.

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it_user523149 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President - Enterprise Computing at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is its stability because we're in the financial services; message persistence and reliability, speed, performance. Those are probably the key attributes that we appreciate.

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NT
Service Delivery Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

This product has good security.

There is no data loss while transporting messages.

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DB
Software Engineering Expert at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Overall the solution operates well and has good integration.

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Sergey Sidorov - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief of Integration Department at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the interaction within the system.

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PM
Technical Manager at MetLife

There are many things that I like about IBM MQ, such as, its performance and reliability. 

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RV
MQ Engineer DevOp at ING

To be able to programmatically send information stored in 'messages' and send them securely, as well as the ability to check their contents and statistics when things go wrong.

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it_user523170 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security And Audit Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

For me, the most important features are its interfaces with RACF and how we can set up the security to allow and disallow who can get to it, who can use it; and then what MQ gets to do on the mainframe and what it does not get to do, basically.

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Yogesh Kshirsagar - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate V P - Technology Delivery at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is transaction processing.

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Viktor Dolyna - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Integrity

The solution is easy to use and has good performance.

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it_user340590 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Architect or Program Manager at a financial services firm
  • Can process large amount of messages in a small amount of time.
  • Integrates between distributed systems: For example, it can help integrate processing between mainframe, client-server, web-based applications by integrating the messages, supporting Service Oriented Architecture.
  • It helps avoid rework by using already developed and working features of the application.
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it_user632718 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The way that we use MQ is just for messaging. We have various systems in our organization and we have various applications.

We use our routing feature when the request is coming from the business application. The request goes to the distributive side and it is routed to the right claim instance.

We use MQ in between for messaging. We process the messages we receive and we send the responses back to whoever sent us the message.

That person or application basically picks up the response and distributes it to whoever requested it. The way we design the environment of that instance can leverage any of the environments.

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it_user632673 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is that it is robust. Its dependability and reliability are its most valuable features.

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it_user631680 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Engineer Manager at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees

There are a lot of valuable features, such as high availability, and workload balancing. Those are the main two.

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it_user631698 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Engineering at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The asynchronous messaging and the assured delivery are the most valuable features because your data needs to make it through from one app to the other, and you don't want to lose it.

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it_user523107 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is primarily seeing the messages as soon as I log in; being able to see in real time that information.

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SM
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It's easy to use and also quite compatible with all the language technologies where they can read messages and they can push messages to Java. It's easy to integrate and compatible with most coding languages.

The solution is stable.

I have found that the solution scales well. 

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AS
Technical Specialist at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees

This solution offers good performance as well as scalability and stability. It offers a template that's beneficial for any company.

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SR
Assistant Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I like the architecture it provides seamlessly for assured delivery.

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it_user632733 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It allows data transmission from multiple platforms in a fault-tolerant manner, that's the biggest feature. It is important for us because we do a lot of data transformation and data transmission between different systems; that's one of the biggest things that we do.

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it_user631719 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's ability to scale, it's ability to do guaranteed delivery and it's ability to do point-to-point of what we subscribe are the most valuable features. And finally, it's ability to handle messages in various formats and structures.

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it_user631695 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Programmer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The messaging and the security are the most valuable features. We can find everything in queue, because that's the basis of our business.

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it_user632730 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the WebSphere and also use the IBM Maximo Enterprise Management System. The most usable functionality for us is just for tracking work orders and work requests, so that we can provide better customer service.

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it_user631782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Technology at Brownells

It's rock solid. It just works. We have to have guaranteed delivery and support. Support is solid as well, knowing that IBM is there. We looked at some open-source products and other competitors, and at the time that we made the decision, IBM was the one that had the largest support structure. Rock-solid performance really is the most solid feature of it.

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it_user523176 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Department at BBAC

Stability and reliability are the most valuable features. It's very reliable and very stable. You can do a fast recovery in case of any failure. It's a very consistent and stable system.

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it_user523113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Large System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Obviously, the biggest thing is that we’ll never lose a message. We use it for a lot of real-time information between our systems for integration, where we cannot lose data during that point in time, because then we lose track of inventory, our manufacturing systems, sales orders and things like that.

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it_user523110 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at Royal Caribbean International

The multiple queuing features, so that everything that we use for talking to our reservation system, the main system we use it for; whatever systems that are sitting on Linux or other environments such as AIX, and then talking to iSeries, which is our “mother ship”, the reservation system. The most valuable features are being able to handle those multiple queues and being able to scale properly.

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it_user523122 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Mainframe System Engineering at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's fairly easy to set up and configure. It's very effective as far as what we need to do with the type of processing that we're trying to get done, message-based processing. It is easily replicate-able. We have tons of servers that actually handle different queues; it's very helpful with that.

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VP
Integration Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have found the MQ messaging topologies valuable mainly the published, subscribe and direct messaging. A feature that no other market could offer at the time was data-addressed encryption.

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SR
Enterprise Architect at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

The methodology and the way in which the platform has been produced as a standard is most valuable. There are so many different versions of it now, but the actual basic functionality and the simplicity of it have made it far easier to be implemented in so many different instances. When I worked with the OS/2 or PS/2 machine environment, the messaging mechanisms were based upon IBM MQ. It is so versatile, which is the main reason that I'm a fan of it. 

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VB
IT Development Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is very easy to work with.

The solution is very stable, it also offers transaction management and support.

The solution offers very good integration with other services. It's one of the great advantages of the service.

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UR
Independent Consultant at State Bank of India

The reliability of the queuing is the most valuable feature. 

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it_user671943 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Middleware Engineer / Automation Specialist at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Reliability is the most valuable feature. MQ is used to support critical business applications.

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it_user632700 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at Colruyt Group

It doesn't lose transactions, it's fast, and it runs on every platform.

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it_user631683 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The thing that I like about MQ most is its reliability. It's one of those types of products that just works. You don't have to tinker around with it too much. One of the biggest things that I really look for in a product is from a reliability perspective. Can I count on this to be up 24 hours a day, and do I have to keep hacking around with it? MQ is definitely something that is really reliable, so it's something that I really appreciate it.

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PT
Database Administration Team Leader at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The subscribe and publish features are excellent. We use them a lot.

The usability of the solution is very good.

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SK
Sap Financial Accounting Senior Consultant at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It is very stable. We haven't seen any failures.

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it_user631746 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The number one thing is it's pretty reliable with data integration. It gets done what we need to do; transport messages from source to destination.

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it_user523134 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Services Lead - Mainframe and Enterprise Batch at Rogers Communications

For Rogers, MQ is the cornerstone for the billing system for cable. It's accessed through the help desk and through the online stores. It's a very valuable piece of software that interfaces with the customers; there are well over 8 million customers.

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it_user523158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director IT Business Systems Applications at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Guaranteed message delivery
  • Easy to use
  • Works for both distributed and host applications
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it_user523164 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix Admin at Desjardins

The most valuable features are messaging between applications; sending messages. We use it a lot to communicate with the IBM SIS service.

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it_user523140 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It's one of our core parts of a middleware platform for integrating our CRM billing application and our online transaction application as well. That's the key usage for day-to-day activities.

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GT
Lead Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

IBM MQ deals mainly with the queuing mechanism. It passes the data and it publishes it. These two abilities are the most valuable features. 

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SN
Senior Technical Architect at Nagarro
  • Offers better reliability and monitoring compared to other tools.
  • Integrates well with other IBM solutions. Therefore, it makes sense to use this product when a company has a large IBM solutions portfolio.
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BN
Architect at Franklin Templeton

The most valuable features are queue managers and CCDT, which is the common purpose of most client applications.

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it_user885045 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting BPM Architect at Ivory Software Corp

It runs everywhere, from the mainframe in the US to the PCs in the Gobi desert attached to an analog modem. 

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it_user105384 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Enterprise Information at a government with 51-200 employees

The message queue and the integration with any development platform/language, i.e., NET and Java, are the most valuable features.

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it_user523179 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

I inherited it when I took over administration of a platform. It is pretty core in our business. I haven't really dealt with configuration that much. It is used to push transactions throughout z/OS, IBM i, Windows, and Linux. It seems to be pretty reliable. It's one of the few things we have that just runs, almost to a point where you forget to go back and do some upgrades. We're running a couple versions that are a little old, and you just forget that; like, "Oh yeah, it's running." It's pretty solid.

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DG
Manager Specialist Platform (Java) at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

It's very stable. 

It also has a backup queue concept and topics, features that I have not seen anywhere else. I like these features very much.

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ST
VP - Accelya Kale Solutions Ltd at Accelya World SLU
  • Data integrity, reliability and security are very important to our business.
  • No messages are lost, and recovery is good in case of any serious failures.
  • No dependency on the end party service's run status.
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it_user631761 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at WinWholesale

Its scalability and uptime is very high. So, these are the two main valuable features of this product. We rarely see any downtime on MQ's side of the product.

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it_user632712 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager

The scalability of the environment is the most valuable feature. We also like the speed and the manageability of this tool.

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ME
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
  • Support for JMS 2.0, because we develop solutions compatible with Java EE7.
  • Seamless integration with IBM WebSphere Application Server, which is the most stable application server I ever worked with.
  • Installed and configured at Windows, AIX and IBM i mostly the same way and set of commands.
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it_user1140819 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Consultant at Dubai Technology Partners

The MQ protocol is widely used across multiple applications and it's so simple for connectivity. 

Other valuable features include the 

  • messaging format
  • message persistence
  • security features, including several connection channels and name-based and user-based authentication.
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JQ
Software Engineer at Sita

The most valuable features are the point to point messaging and the MQ API. This solution is simple and very diverse.

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it_user632676 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Integration Architect at a financial services firm

We use MQ as part of the core of our enterprise information bus. We started that journey in 2009. We have it both on the mainframe and in the mid-range. For us, by allowing messaging to integrate with some of our third-party solutions, like for web banking and so on, we are able to create an information highway that took in the legacy events, captured ATM and credit card transactions, and integrates that into a digital web dashboard.

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it_user632685 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a healthcare company

For the IBM MQ solution, the most valuable feature is the interconnection of data between the different systems. In our company, we use mainframe, Windows, and Unix and it provides communication with different plans like associations and the federal employee plan. That's what we're looking for.

The main feature right now that we're looking for is open source and that is where we see more challenges coming up with the product. This is because a lot of the applications are going with open source such as cloud and providing connection with the cloud. We have Amazon AWS cloud services or Microsoft Azure services and the applications are deployed there, so connectivity with those type of applications is necessary.

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it_user632658 - PeerSpot reviewer
RCM Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm

So far, it's helped us with our Maximo integration between the users and the database administrators. I know we kind of lagged behind on some updates, which caused us problems. We recently upgraded, which had made things a lot easier, got rid of some of the issues we had with the older versions.

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it_user631797 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Solutions at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The major thing we like about it is zero transaction loss. The other thing, which is a plus point, is first in, first out (FIFO). You can be pretty sure that if MQ goes down for whatever reason, the transactions will still sustain; they won't be lost. There is a drawback when, once a transaction touches the other point, it is lost, in the sense that if you don't process it, but that is fair enough.

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PS
Team Leader of the Development Team at IBM/IT-Innovation

Reliable integration between MQ servers. IT helps us create flexible integration solutions.

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it_user631710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Middleware Admin at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For us, it's basically just our messaging bus. We pretty much use it just for events that are limited to various applications that we have in our company. That is pretty much the use case that we have with respect to the IBM MQ.

Also, the stability and reliability of the tool system is what makes it really easy to be able to work with.

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it_user631725 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Ease of use
  • Access to support resources
  • Access to new release information in a timely manner
  • Easy to digest
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it_user523161 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The integration it provides makes a lot of stuff easier. There are a lot of ways to integrate things but it works on a lot of different platforms and with a lot different technologies.

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KG
Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The MQ appliance has very good performance.

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MR
IT Consultant at Ministry of Justice, Kuwait
  • Secure
  • Safe
  • Very fast

It's a very good product. Very easy to work with.

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AS
IT Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The clusterization which results in persistence is the most valuable feature. I only use a very small number of its features.

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KP
Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

From the time I joined this company I have been working with IBM MQ. Until now I haven't seen any severe issues related to it. Most of the time it's running. That is the advantage of IBM MQ.

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it_user632727 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Architect at Accenture

MQ is one of the key integrations that we use for the z Systems to the open system connectivity. It helps us to transform the systems from the legacy enrollment to the latest technologies, as well. I'm part of the legacy transformations team and it provides really easy migrations, when it comes to integration with MQ. Any other integrations are a little bit challenging for us.

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it_user632694 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Most valuable for us are the queue depths and creations for the installations. Being a business in financial solutions, we depend on it more for those things, so it's very valuable for us. For most of the applications like JBoss and others we use IBM MQ.

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it_user632691 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We can do the authentication and authorization of incoming requests using IBM WebSphere and DataPower. That's important to us because we can confidentially send the data with restrictions to other platforms.

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it_user632742 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Flow Manager at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It can be managed from a web page.

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DS
Works at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution offers very good features, including listener channels, remote queues, and transmit queues.

The solution is stable.

The initial setup isn't overly complex. It's pretty straightforward. 

Technical support is very good.

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it_user632715 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a wellness & fitness company

The most valuable features are the integration services in the company.

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CM
Principal Solution Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I will say that, okay, we are coming from a long history as an IT company, and we have almost done queuing systems with other solutions. Moving from that implementation to something that is out-of-the-box, and the rave reviews, it was a great asset already. We didn’t have to worry about all the specific configuration, or installation of our own queue, and queuing system, and the brokers, and so on. It was some things a little bit out-of-the-box, that's why we like it.

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it_user631677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at Erie Insurance

Helping us with speed to market; that's really what IBM's solutions are helping us do.

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SB
Sr. Middleware/Data Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is a good and stable product, It assists with our applications and has great message processing with zero loss of messages.

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it_user121524 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Its ability to transfer large volumes of data reliably.

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IS
Project Manager/System Architect/Senior Mainframe System Engineer/Integration Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The message is delivered. This is the most important thing.

Overall, I have been satisfied with the solution's stability and scalability.

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SP
Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Everything looks fine. It is 

  • stable
  • reliable 
  • scalable.
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BB
Works

Asynchronous messaging processing between the front-end and our legacy system using an enterprise service bus (ESB).

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it_user632757 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It makes it very easy to update and define queues, look at messages, queue depth, and queue properties. We use it in conjunction with the integration bus for testing and development.

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it_user632706 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Ease of use and ease of setup. I'm an admin type, and I can set things up from the command line, and I can set things up through a GUI. It's easy to work with.

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NT
Service Delivery Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
  • Clustering
  • Multi-instance
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RH
freelance at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

What I like the most about IBM MQ is the 

  • reliability
  • robustness.
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it_user523101 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect Mainframe at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

One of the most valuable features is the standardization in terms of messaging; if you have MQ, you probably can talk to anybody. That's one thing: its compatibility. The other one is its stability.

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IBM MQ
March 2024
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