WebSphere MQ

Multi-processor and Multi-core hardware is becoming a more common platform for deployment of WebSphere MQ. The latest release allows better exploitation of this hardware, with better ability to scale workload to take advantage of systems that exceed 4 cores.

Users of WebSphere MQ may choose to send persistent messages when the business requires assurance and recoverability. The latest release of WebSphere MQ demonstrates a performance improvements for the throughput of smaller messages.

For non-persistent messages WebSphere MQ V7.1 also sees greater throughput with small messages (below 2K).

WebSphere MQ V7.1 adds multicast as a new function for publish/subscribe configurations. Performance using this function is greatly improved for smaller messages.

Securing your WebSphere MQ environments has been simplified and made more effective with new IBM provided security capabilities, making the security on the connections between applications easier to apply and maintain without requiring users to write their own security exits

Security controls can now be defined as policies

Support for more secure algorithms in SSL.

A new wizard can be used to help define and maintain security settings

For end-to-end security WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security continues to be available as an upgrade to WebSphere MQ. This adds stronger end-to-end, application-level data protection features including message level security with digital signature and encryption.

WebSphere MQ V7.1 includes a change in how the product is installed. Users may now select the location for the install of WebSphere MQ, enabling multiple versions of the product to be installed on a system at the same time.

As customers install either fixpacks or new releases, this will enable smoother migration testing to be performed alongside an existing deployment.

Most enterprises today are large, distributed organizations that have accumulated, written or acquired diverse IT systems over time.

Integration can increase your responsiveness and flexibility—don’t wrestle with underlying network complexities to connect applications.

Maintaining home-grown approaches for connecting applications diverts skills and time away from higher-level integration concerns/opportunities.

Offloading these time-consuming tasks to WebSphere MQ frees systems integrators and application developers from application complexity enabling them to apply their skills to higher-level integration challenges with bigger benefits to IT departments and the business.

Helps integrate virtually anything, with support for more than 80 platform configurations, including native z/OS support, with IBM and Business Partner offerings.

Integrates CICS, IMS™, DB2®, Microsoft® .NET and J2EE™ environments.

Supports both de facto Message Queue Interface (MQI) and industry standard JMS V1.1 interface, with integrated publish-and-subscribe support.

WebSphere MQ forms the backbone of many critical business infrastructures and is entrusted with delivering business-critical and high-value data.

Reduce the risk of data being lost when applications, Web services or networks fail.

Ensure data is not duplicated and completes as a single unit of work or transaction.

Assured delivery means WebSphere MQ can deliver information either synchronously or asynchronously depending on the needs of the applications and Web services.

Configurable to provide a less-robust quality of service for increased performance on less-critical data.

WebSphere MQ now includes WebSphere MQ Telemetry integrated into the package, to make it simpler to enable end-to-end connectivity from devices into business applications. Use of WebSphere MQ Telemetry capability is licensed separately

Enables devices (e.g. Remote Sensors, Smart Meters, RFID tags) to be rapidly and easily connected with existing applications and services

Provides messaging that is optimized for needs of sensor networks

Helps decision makers focus on significant data and events – filtering out irrelevant information

Enables more rapid, proactive response to current situations and predicted future events

Reduces network traffic and increases responsiveness by only sending significant data and events

Encourages device manufacturers to enable their sensors to be ready to connect into IBM connectivity solutions

Enables custom implementation of device-side messaging to connect unusual devices

Enables connectivity even to resource constrained devices that have limited memory and capacity

Optimizes use of network lowering traffic and reducing costs over pay-per-byte satellite networks

More advanced messaging capabilities for less constrained smart devices

Buffers information in the event of network outages to reduce data loss and re-transmission

Automatically triggers appropriate actions in event of device failures or network outages

WebSphere MQ does more than just enable customers to manage the technology they have today more effectively. It gives them a clear path to the future—a flexible infrastructure in which they can develop and deploy new applications faster and more cost effectively, without writing complex communications code.

WebSphere MQ can provide a messaging foundation for an Enterprise Service Bus which helps a business move to a flexible Service Oriented Architecture to help them grow incrementally as their business needs.

Deliver reliable application integration for applications and Web services.

Increase business flexibility and help meet regulatory compliance obligations

Gain increased transparency, reliability and audit ability of data movement compared to file transfer (FTP)-based approaches by extending WebSphere MQ with WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition

Benefit from integrated support for Web services, helping you bring reliability, visibility and audit ability to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) interactions.

WebSphere MQ simplifies integration tasks by providing a functionally rich, easy-to-use application development interface that removes the data movement and storage logic from the application. This helps users focus on the business logic.

WebSphere MQ provides a consistent application programming interface, MQI, throughout all its supported platforms, which helps make integrated programs portable.

In addition to this de facto standard interface, WebSphere MQ also fully implements the industry standard Java Message Service (JMS) interface, including support for publish and subscribe messaging.

The WebSphere MQ Explorer tool, included in the product, enables the entire MQ network to be administered and configured remotely.

Based on the open source Eclipse™ framework, WebSphere MQ Explorer administration and configuration tool is extensible.

WebSphere MQ supports clustering for dynamically distributing messaging workload throughout available MQ resources.

WebSphere MQ helps users send business information to other parts of their business or to Business Partners or customers without waiting for it to arrive.

WebSphere MQ users feel safe knowing that as soon as recipients are able to receive it, the information will be delivered.

This is particularly useful when the sender and recipient work in different time zones or in different countries.

Time-independent (asynchronous) messaging decouples applications. When applications are running and the network is up, WebSphere MQ in asynchronous mode delivers messages just as quickly as in synchronous mode.

Asynchronous messaging enables the messaging layer to cope better with situations where parts of the architecture are unavailable. If this event, messages are kept safe and data processing occurs when possible.

WebSphere MQ makes an ideal transport for adding reliability and traceability to SOAP interactions between Web services, especially as part of an SOA.

Existing and batch applications that are Web services-enabled can also benefit from using WebSphere MQ in its asynchronous mode as a buffering mechanism, regulating the flow of requests made to these systems.