Designing an IBM WebSphere MQ architecture

Find out about the different architectures that IBM® WebSphere® MQ supports for point-to-point and publish/subscribe messaging styles.

Before you plan your IBM WebSphere MQ architecture, familiarize yourself with the basic IBM WebSphere MQ concepts, see the topics in IBM WebSphere MQ Technical overview.

IBM WebSphere MQ architectures range from simple architectures using a single queue manager, to more complex networks of interconnected queue managers. Multiple queue managers are connected together using distributed queueing techniques. For more information about planning single queue manager and multiple queue manager architectures, see the following topics:

If you need multiple queue managers that are logically related and need to share data and applications they can be grouped together in a cluster. Using clusters can enable queue managers to communicate with each other without the need to set up extra channel definitions or remote queue definitions, simplifying their configuration and management. For more information about using clusters, see How clusters work.