I was part of a small team that tested and used the IBM infrastructure in a QA environment. My activities included configuring and creating test environments and finding solutions to monitor the infrastructure.
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Great experience
What do you like best about the product?
Robust tool, very stable, brings a lot of security in the use of critical and high availability services.
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the issues that impacts the use of MQ is the high cost of the License.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use MQ to communicate with financial market institutions and regulatory bodies. The tool provides us with the benefit and security in communication, making the services more efficient and secure.
One of the best MQ service
What do you like best about the product?
IBM MQ is best suitable for organisations that need reliable and scalable messaging middleware for their systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost for using the IBM MQ service is on higher part
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides vendor lock-in, and provides complete inclusion for various protocols
Best Queue management tool in the market
What do you like best about the product?
IBM MQ is a fast and most reliable messaging platform we have for a seamless communication between various applications and systems. Using its power of high performance and security features we can finish tasks to exchange data in seconds.
It also offers a simple and fast integration process to ensure quick implementation.
It also offers a simple and fast integration process to ensure quick implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of now as it is giving us the results as expected
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us to quick exchange data between multiple services. It also help us managing the BAU conditions.
Can work in clusters and scales horizontally
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Using a message queuing solution, we had a banking solution that integrated multiple branches and interbank systems. Different systems for credits, debits, CRM, and others communicated through this message queue solution. It wasn't just about communication; for instance, a CRM application needed to collect information from various banking systems, such as account balances, properties, contracts, and credit cards.
These systems were separate, and the message queuing solution combined information from all of them into one message. When a request was made from a workplace for information about a person or company, the message queue infrastructure routed the request to all connected systems, ensuring the workplace did not need to be aware of all configuration details.
The product's most valuable feature is its ability to work in clusters. This allows for creating a cluster of message brokers, providing horizontal scalability. Another important feature is the extensive command-line interface, which allows for comprehensive monitoring and management of the system. This enables the creation of complex scripts to configure, making it a complete and very powerful tool.
What needs improvement?
The tool is expensive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with the product for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The tool is scalable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
IBM MQ is stable.
How are customer service and support?
The tool's support is not cheap and fast. You can't expect a resolution from support.
How was the initial setup?
The setup of message queues in an enterprise trade system is complex, especially when dealing with hundreds of message brokers and thousands of message queues. Configuring such a large infrastructure isn't straightforward and requires tools for testing, validating, and identifying missed components.
We manage a large configuration file, likely an XML file containing thousands of lines. Many teams update this file to reflect changes in their systems. It can be split into multiple smaller files to manage this file, but this complicates maintaining a single point of truth and requires validating all combinations. Systems communicate with each other using these components, needing a common protocol.
What was our ROI?
The benefits of using IBM MQ include buffering your transaction flows, which is useful if you have spikes. For example, it can handle this increased load if you normally have 100 messages per second but expect 10,000 the next day. You can also build clusters of message brokers to scale horizontally.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The license for IBM MQ is commercial and not cheap. You get a multi-platform solution, which is important because it lets you connect systems on mainframes, personal solutions, Unix, Linux, etc.
What other advice do I have?
Applications produced and consumed messages, with the IBM infrastructure serving as the transport and storage for these messages. Messaging was based on IBM MQ, and several other IBM products were involved, though I can't recall their exact names. These products were used for transforming messages, validation, and routing. The infrastructure could route, validate, split, and combine messages.
I rate the overall product a ten out of ten. Our goal was to measure the performance of the integrated system, not just individual components. This involved external systems as well. We used various command-line tools, such as IBM MQ, to collect detailed information about processes and systems. Measurements had to be aligned with configurations, meaning we couldn't use a universal solution. Instead, we had to adjust based on specific requirements and configurations.
MQ - Reliable Messaging platform
What do you like best about the product?
We are a messaging service provider where major insurance and banking companies use our service to distribute their documents. Many such companies have been sending their messges via their IBM MQ server to our MQ server for delivery. We were able to implement MQ solution very easily and the service has been working very reliably for more than 10 years
What do you dislike about the product?
Downside of using IBM MQ is it is a legacy product and limited expertize in the user community
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many large financial and insurance companies require MQ interface for them to send and receive their messages. By implementing MQ solution, we were able to deliver messages from these customers
MQ is the best for integration
What do you like best about the product?
Help us with we sphere applications and integrations with other platforms
What do you dislike about the product?
It must have embedd monitor tool for alerts
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Some long transaction with was application.. We are using MQ to work in back ground to have short transaction
IBM MQ is a very powerful tool for asyncronous messages exchange across different platforms
What do you like best about the product?
The reliability, the possibility to recover from failures, the powerful queue-sharing feature for High Availability
What do you dislike about the product?
The API differences between a queue-sharing and a non queue-sharing environment (commands and Return Codes). This leads to the need to change the applications when deciding to move to a High Availability Queue Sharing configuration
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The need to avoid syncronicity in the messages exchange when not really needed, in order to give more priority to the real time data communications
Secure and reliable queue management platform.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy queue management, the platform practically works by itself after correct configuration. Good message browser features, that we don't find in the same way in competitors
What do you dislike about the product?
Some resources we don't use just because we don't have a business need. I have not identified any need for changes so far. Improvement in ease of use is always very welcome, but I don't see any problems
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM MQ helped us handle the exchange of messages with partners and we are very satisfied with its efficiency, allowing us to exchange messages within the established limits.
Review of IBM MQ
What do you like best about the product?
Stability, Customization, cross-platform, resilience, Multiprotocol, compatible with various technologies.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost and Interface of the WebConsole, the MQ Explorer is more dynamic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrations between institutions, integration between applications. Facilitating the dynamics of sending and receiving, reducing the work in controlling the messaging dynamics.
Working as administrator for this product
What do you like best about the product?
Can use for cloud pack integration and for kafkak streaming , using for WebSphere and iib 10, and ace 11for ternesfering queue data
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited resources for studying , and review video
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have streaming transactions so the best tool for our telco business
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