IBM MQ and IBM MQ Advanced (software)
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The best in messaging
What do you like best about the product?
I particularly like the robustness of MQ as a messaging solution for diverse applications on multiplatform
What do you dislike about the product?
I love everything that MQ offers and there is nothing that I dislike about MQ
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
INtegration
IBM MQ is a solid and established messaging middleware
What do you like best about the product?
As a 14+ year user of IBM MQ, the feature I like the most is the continuation of features available in the first versions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Beyond the basic functionality (queues, channels, listeners, etc) sometimes IBM MQ is not bug-free. An example is the use of multi-instance queue managers and NFS v4 shared file system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have built an elaborate solution for a healthcare customer that uses MQ to carry messages from front-end systems to the back-end. Examples are a message when a patient is admitted to a hospital and when lab results are delivered to a doctor.
Manager of Middleware Services (including MQ)
What do you like best about the product?
We use IBM MQ for critical production workload and has been rock solid. We rarely have to open cases with IBM for support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Advanced Message Security use case seem to be limited and not widely adopted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reliable messaging.
MQ & CICS
What do you like best about the product?
I admire how the MQ application interacts with CICS. Its quite fascinating how the CICS-MQ adapter from CICS communicates with MQ as an external resource manager. With this technology this allows companys to keep track of the millions of CICS transactions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really, its a great tool for CICS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
None at the Moment
Overall evaluation of IBM MQ
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to use same API on all platforms
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity of fixpack maintenance is very difficult on Linux environments
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Interaction with applications from WEB to mainframe.
IBM MQ Product
What do you like best about the product?
IBM MQ is very easy to use and helps the business to reduce the complexities by connecting applications through channels and retrieving messages through queues. The cluster facility helps in managing the MQ objects anywhere in the cluster. Easy administration and Easy for the business to send the data.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no findings for me to let you know about dislikes but in my experience when I have done the MQ for z/OS migration from V 7.1 to V 9 we faced an issues with the application on the distributed side where they were using the MQ version as V 7.0.1. The SVRCONN channel on the Z/OS side connects to distributed side application and the clients were not compatible. However the application team have written a code to mitigate the issue after a long brainstorming sessions about the issue. IBM can help such customers by providing an alternatives for establishing connections through PTFs on the z/OS side and patches on the distributed client side.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The issues solved using the IBM MQ is that applications are able to send data to each other by reducing the complexities of network.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use this product where any one are looking for sending the data from one system to another as MQ would take care of the data conversion. It might help you to reduce the system complexities.
Backbone of middleware
What do you like best about the product?
MQ series has been around for decades and proven to be reliable product
What do you dislike about the product?
UI has not evolved a lot over the years.. not an issue though
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Follow hub and spoke architecture and seamlessly connect various platforms
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