--- title: IBM MQ Reviews meta_title: 'IBM MQ Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 174 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM MQ works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 174 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # IBM MQ Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Message Queue (MQ) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/message-queue-mq) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 174 ## About IBM MQ IBM MQ connects applications and microservices in private datacenters, across hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and at the edge of the enterprise. It allows businesses, from large enterprises to startups, to ensure every order, every payment, and every customer interaction counts. Messages between applications are delivered reliably once-and-only-once and applications are decoupled to enable rapid response to sudden traffic increases or system outages. Businesses can tap into the value of existing mission-critical data to gain real-time insights and ensure the safety of customer and business data with comprehensive security mechanisms. ## IBM MQ Reviews ### 1. IBM MQ - messaging solution for cross system applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jayesh b. | Senior Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** - Monitoring and activity trace - Managed file transfer - Reliable delivery of messages between multiple systems - Ease of adding applications within complex architecture of applications. - support for cloud - after install support is great. - provides a lot of plugins and integrations. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** - Initial setup and upgrades are a bit difficult - MQ Commands are bit difficult to understand - Not enough policy and control options. - Language support isn't that great. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using IBM MQ for - - Easily integrating applications running on different systems like java, . Net, python. - Sending messages across different applications securely and reliably. - Easily integraring data between cross platform applications. ### 2. IBM Messaging Queue Service is reliable,robust and secure. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viral M. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** In our Organization for one of Banking Project we have used IBM Messaging Queue Service and we found the product very reliable,easy to configure and manage.We have entire Linux setup in our organization so we had installed IBM MQ service on Redhat Linux and its very easy to install and configure and the product is very much capable to manage heavy load. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Overall the product is one of the best in market but recently other competitive companies like Amazon provide much advanced features.Also,I found IBM Support process time consuming to resolve any issue. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing Banking Domain Project requires regular updates to the customer for any transaction done by Customer.Also, customer should be informed immediately after any transaction is done from his/her bank account.So,messaging quesue plays vital role to regularly update customer and that too on time. ### 3. It provides proper message queueing system. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Showkot H. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Messages reach their destination in real-time, no delay. It supports multiple channels and proper acknowlegement of the messages. No messages are missed by the consumer. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Sometimes there are some latencies. The exception handling mechanism should be improved. It is not that rich like Rabbit MQ. There are lots of things to be improved. Hopefully the developers will pay attention to that. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is trying to solve the problem of assynchronus communication among different services and infrastructures. It this is properly done, a developer like me can use it to implement MQ on different projects. ### 4. IBM MQ product is apt for the companies looking for secure transmission of messaging **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ARUN K. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Secure and Quick transmission between 2 MQ supported application. Suitable for Banking and Security sector for financial transactions . IBM MQ tool also provide the best view UI of Queue status for user. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** IBM does not provide much plugins for the application which try to connect with MQ or utilize MQ for transmission compared to other products like RabitMQ or ActiveMQ. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** MQ solves the business problem of secured transmission of message over trustworthy network between 2 heterogeneous/ homogeneous application and with faster transmission rate. ### 5. High Availability combined with high functionality **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David A. | MQ Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** IBM conintues to develop and enhance a messaging solution that provides high reliablilty across geographically-colocated and -dispersed parallel implementations. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** The provided adminstrator applications are an 80s-style command line processer and and 90's style graphical interface. These need to be brought into the 21st century! **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our MQ Appliance 4-way implementation provides us with 99.999% - or more - uptime of our queue managers and their associated resources. This is a critical accomplishment for financial services firms such as ours. ### 6. IBM MQ I have using it for my projects for the message queues, remote queues and so on. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bharat . | Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It is most useful in many of the tasks for loading messages as input or viewing the output data of certain queues, which we can use for multiple purposes in the flow. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I don't particularly dislike anything about the IBM MQ, but the user environment can be a bit more friendly, and easily accessible in terms of queue assessability. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many business problems which can be solved using the IBM MQ , i have been using it in the ace domain and for the integration process, which helps in the smooth process. ### 7. Best tool to Integrate OBDX with T24 for Internet and Mobile Banking. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali Qammar R. | T24 Technical Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** There were a lot of external banking systems communicating with T24 in Allied Bank Limited (PK), we couldn't manage each one with separate Middleware. So, we acquired IBM MQ and integrated all our external systems like OBDX (Oracle solution for Internet and Mobile Banking), INCHEQUES(Inward Clearing and Outward Clearing Software) etc through IBM MQ by configuring separate Queues for each system. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** It's a bit expensive and sometimes IBM lags quick response if any support ticket is logged with them. Also, IBM Websphere is not easy to learn for beginners. It has a considerate learning curve. There should be a module that should send notifications to desired personnel for better monitoring and reporting. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Build UI for Linux operating systems like already developed for Windows Operating systems. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previously when we were using in-house developed middle, requests were not coming to our core banking systems and we couldn't find the requests. Now after implementing IBM Websphere, we have successfully solved this issue. Now we have managed to process all the requests coming from all the integrated systems. ### 8. IBM MQ is highly recommended **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** prince j. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Its simplicity which makes it is easy to understand how it works. I worked on pipes concept in Linux and MQ works on similar concept. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** There's nothing which I dislike about it. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides seamless and secure way to communicate between two system without the risk of loosing data. ### 9. Moving data become simpler with IBM MQ! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sourabh K. | Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** IBM MQ is a best data transfer tool in the form of messsages. Multiple organizations around the globe trust IBM MQ is a key factor to trust blindly to use this product in our organization. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I do not see any major dislikes as of now while using IBM MQ in my organization. But, want to mention a few points which need to pay attention to. The first one is the ratio of data lagging and the second one is data quality while moving from one platform to another. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transferring a large amount of data is always a hectic and risk-oriented process for every organization around the globe. Using IBM MQ we can move these data from one platform to another very efficiently. ### 10. IBM MQ - IBM's rich and reliable messaging platform, Highly Reliable But Unaffordable **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chirag T. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** 1) Reliability of the platform which guarantees once a message is pushed into IBM MQ, it will be definitely delivered to its destination.Message never gets lost in MQ. 2) Supports various modes of operation like point to point, publisher - subscriber, file transfer etc. 3) MQ GUI can be configured where you can get a view of all the messages being transferred over queue, number of queues, etc. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** 1) Huge licensing cost. 2) Monopolistic behaviour of IBM. 3) It uses a push based mechanism wherein a producer pushes the message and any of the consumer applications that are subscribed to that queue are free to take the message. Hence, it lacks better control over message delivery to intented recipient. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** 1) Would not recommend as it involves huge licensing cost. 2) Lot of open source and cheaper tools are available which give you the same level of performance. Hence, would recommend going for such tools rather than MQ. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Messaging platform which is robust, flexible and reliable. 2) Transfer data in an asynchronous format over different networks. 3) Enable interaction of different types of applications as MQ will act as a middleware application facilitating standardization over transfer of data over the network. 4) Provide strong security mechanisms to protect data from external threats when being transferred over the network. ### 11. Easy Messaging with all facilities **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manujaya K. | Senior Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The feature that enables administration of the MQ is handy when compared to other MQs. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I cannot see any disadvantage related to this. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to administrate the MQs easily. As well as, open standard development tool helps to enhance the system with business-oriented capabilities. ### 12. IBM MQ API Programmer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** πŸ§‘πŸ»β€πŸ’» D. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** the flexibility of the application is vast and very straightforward. It can do a lot of customizations and parameters **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Documentation is quite long and a little difficult to find **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving problems integrating banks infrastructure with the application ### 13. Describing my experience using IBM MQ **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vipin k. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Using multiple queues and topics we can transfer the json and XML message, we can stop the server and download the message as well to check the application issue. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Sometimes application is slow and lags , which is not a suitable behaviour, also connectivity of queues and topics can be improved. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Processing the XML and JSON message so that multiple data environments are interacted. ### 14. Stable and secure messaging platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janet W. | Digital Marketing Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Powerful and reliable messaging platform to connect with different applications, systems and services. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** IBM MQ is an expensive product and setting up is not easy especially by the new users. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides us with a secure, reliable and easy-to-use messaging transport layer across different applications and systems. ### 15. Best light app for message transfer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It's very light and fast even if we are **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** nothing much but it could have better support in other languages. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using in a teleco product where we were processing millions of tuples daily and it was passing the messages without and latency, even sometimes product was stooped working we were not losing our data. ### 16. IBM MQ is best of it's kind. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MUHAMMED SHIYAD C. | System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** QMGR Profile, automatic triggering of ev **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Latency is the thing I hate the most for me **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** For building message based communication between systems ### 17. Simple **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Easy to integrate with my application and reliable. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Not recommended for small application use cases. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sending and receiving financial transactions. ### 18. MQ Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anup P. | Technology Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Fast amd reliable communication connectivity. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** It should be better if we can use pop out for the queue. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sending transaction through Bank file using MQ. ### 19. Capacity of queue **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishi R. | Lead Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** I was able to hold around 700000 msg in queue without issue . N later i hv consumed it smoothly. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** It does not have huge speed of pushing data in queue. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Its for massive data . So if you need to deal with huge data along with logic to inject to filter out based on some criteria then go for it. It can easily ingrated with cps so huge benefits in term of implementing pub/sub without getting into infra. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do not need to think of capacity of queue any more.on a regular it does not matter but when deploying connected process in production , the flow gets stopped and maintaing msg in order becomes critical with limited queue space. ### 20. IBM Mq is great tool for legacy platforms. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** IBM Mq is helpful in reliablly sharing the messages across different systems. The dead letter queue helps in troubleshooting the failed messages. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Lacks modern features for instance it's not available as container image. Also lack of WEB UI features is also another area of improvement. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in delivering the messages across systems. It's helps to keep communication between multiple layers of application or between multiple applications. ### 21. Security and usage with IBM systems **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The usage procedures are easy to connect with mainframe languages **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Difficult to integrate with other languages **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Messaging queue when using mainframe languages ### 22. Awesome experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed s. | Integration Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Browsing queues is more easy. Clustered Qs and Clustered mq **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Putting xml in the queue should be one line **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Still not have this ### 23. Amazing experience of working on IBM MQ on Cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amar K. | Associate Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The best thing about IBM MQ is that Messages are never lost. It doesn't matter whether there is some network issue or server down, messages will get delivered everytime. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Sometimes all messages are not consumed in queue. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am in a banking domain and as per the requirement we need to send the notification to the customer for each transaction. And this can be achieved through IBM MQ. ### 24. MQ **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The simplistic UI, the reliability of the system along with the ease of configuration. Ive used multiple messaging and queuing systems, but MQ was by far the best **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** More visibility on whats happening inside each queue, also no useful logs for troubleshooting is a big negative. Logs is very important for investigations which MQ lacks of. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** AIX would be my preferable OS to use with MQ **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a digital payments solutions, thus we use MQ for online transactions. Each online transactions goes through mq to another between all different apps within the core. ### 25. Review for IBM MQ **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhijit G. | Associate Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It is very easy to develop MQ based integration. Lots of training materials are available easily. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** There is always room for improvement as in considering other vendor products can be made cloud based. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have solved point to point integration from one module to another. ### 26. It endure messages are deliverd **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayanidu W. | Senior System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It is easy to learn and master.Also easy to trouble shoot **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Nothing it is the best messaging tool I have used **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Use IBM MQ .it had lot of support and it is a stable product **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connectivity related issues with JMS applications. SsL issues ### 27. IBM MQ - The most reliable middleware service. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vasikaran B. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It has effective authorization management with minimum effort needed for administration. Very much reliable and stable product. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Difficult to do initial setup. GUI is not available in linux. Expensive. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collecting and sharing customer data with great security. ### 28. IBM Mq is a good product and highly recommended **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** IBM mq is a good product and highly recommended. It is secured The storage is flexible and easily connect to the target systems. Also through mq communication between the external systems would be easier **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Through IBM mq. The message viewing is but difficulty and it follows hexa code. Very rare, there will be issue with the queue manager connection But it is a good product and highly recommended **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Messaging queues **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems right now ### 29. IBM MQ **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** derick c. | DevOps engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** flexibility and how wide the documentation is **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** a little hard to navigate the documentation but overall its okay actually **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** connecting the front end to backend bank services using IBM MQ ### 30. Work experience with IBM MQ **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Can easy view logs in explorer Manage monitors Agent status and view transfer documents struck on agents **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Unable to view who has last modified monitors. Though agent is active it is not transfer the process **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transferring large files with no data loss, less duration ### 31. Backbone of middleware **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ series has been around for decades and proven to be reliable product **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** UI has not evolved a lot over the years.. not an issue though **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Follow hub and spoke architecture and seamlessly connect various platforms ### 32. Recommended Best Buy Software from IBM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** IBM MQ is the best & I liked it fully. Can recommend. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Nothing as of now. I can't comment on this further. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Fully recommended for business transactions & message queue services **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** B2B problems arising due to daily transactions. Message queue. ### 33. Good Message Engine **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** JMS engine very strong and reliable. MQ never stops working **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Hard learning curve. Require some knowledge in other tools **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Learn of IBM websphere products **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** JMS message interchange between Java apps ### 34. Very good integration and gateway tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It's a powerful tool to integrate legacy and non legacy systems, with many functions that helps your organization. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** The support that we are getting from the local provider, check your local support to get the best to it **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** the platform can be a little bit complex when you want to convert it to API solution, but when you use as integration of applications it's wonderful solution with great tools there. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** integration and message translation between multiple systems, with and easy handling of a complex infrastructure ### 35. Practice Director **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Available integration capabilities with different platforms. Fast and very reliable communication **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Coding still needed to enable interactions. Code automation can be further improved for developer and testing community. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Consider IBM MQ with other IBM web services stack like Data Power **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Backend integration with legacy systems. This is helping to monetize data through service calls. This is a key function when larger organizations are trying to migrate to faster api led integration stack ### 36. Reliable ways for data communication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sriram R. | Senior Software Engineer - Payment Managenent Systems, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Reliable source, widely used, libraries and support availabilities **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Documentation is needed at implementation levels **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communication ### 37. Robust messaging transfer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin F. | Mr, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Easy of use, backward compatibility, robustness, stability **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** a bit old fashioned regarding cloud,it's a good tool, but as it is FS dependent the cubernetes FileSystems are not the best for it. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** ItΓ‘ a great messaging tool, with many added besides messaging, it also can do file transfers, Publish Subscribe. Can be implemented in stand alone or HA configurations, and in the last version the added of Replicated Data Queue Managers is a huge step in HA, because with this arquitecture IBM took out of the equation the Shared File System, wich is a single point of failure. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data transfer between sites and/or between aplications ### 38. it was nice and easy for us to use **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Very Simple architecture and design to understand **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Availability and more robust in nature to integrate with others **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are working on ETL tool so . to build microservices we used this tool to solve producer consumer problem ### 39. Good Queue System **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Asynchronous messaging, easy to use and integrate **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** When you have a lot of load it could be slow, even you could have deadlocks problems accessing a queue **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating systems, for example legacy systems, core system, web and mobile apps. ### 40. Feedback **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Plug-ins configuration all seems good and I am yet to explore it. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I am yet to explore it then only can say my dislikes **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have not used it much ### 41. Great Messaging Platform used by many billion dollar Financial sector companies **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** best way to access data from Mainframe for open systems **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** there is nothing specific to mention,Its great to use MQ **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** For all the backend data needs ### 42. Very convenient to access when traveling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik C. | Logistics Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Security, they protect data at rest and on the move without altering applications. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** A little bit old fashioned compared to the competitors. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transferring data between applications. ### 43. Provided a reliable connectivity and transfer of data across multiple systems **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Venkat Avinash K. | Assistant Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Ease of writing code using COBOL or from Front end and the possible abstraction it provides to developers. Fail-safe and reliable for high volume production deployments. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Has to be a bit more user friendly. May be ease of calling or using from scripting language like rexx or ability to write quick stubs.. Should be more easy-to-use test new deployments. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Na **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connectivity across systems ### 44. 3 Years of active experience using IBM MQ **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Robustness and reliability of the IBM MQ is great feature. There are lots of MQ product we have in market like MSMQ, Rabbit MQ and many more. But IBM MQ has more command in the market **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Support part of IBM MQ can be a area of improvement **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** MQ product can fullfill the need to persistent the data, good product. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM MQ revamped my project Before that user had to rework if BI system not available. Now data can be stored in MQ and we can use it later ### 45. Storage made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srijan S. | Assistant System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The feature where the stored data can be utilised later **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I really don't see any downside to IBM MQ if comparisons are made **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** To comprehensively utilise all the benefits MQ provides **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** The storage made easier, more viable and increased utilities are the major benefits ### 46. Robust connection and data exchange **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It's availability and robustness. I have rarely seen any outage and unavailability is several year of my experience. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Probably nothing, but monitoring and MQ properties visibility can be improved. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data delivery is very fast and consistent. It is reliable and easy to maintain. ### 47. IBM MQ is the Backbone of Middleware domain **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumit V. | Senior Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** IBM MQ is probably one of the oldest middleware solutions provided by IBM. MQ means messaging queuing which essentially works as a transport medium to transport any sort of message or data from source to the destination. MQ has all types of resources like queues, channels, queue manager, process definitions, etc. IBM MQ can offer you point to point and clustered setup based on your network requirement. If you have only 2 parties where one is the source and the other destination then P2P is more advantageous, but if you have many queue managers and they are interlinked with different services they support then have a clustered setup and establishing a full repository accompanied with few partial repositories would be a good option for you. IBM MQ is capable of handling the highest security implementations possible. We have upgraded the latest TLS on the system and it was successfully deployed with new cert exchange also happening without any issues. There can also be security at CLN **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** IBM MQ has been there forever and they have always tried to perfect it more and more in each version. My biggest concern with the software is the patching process, if you encounter any bug they will give you a temporary solution but you will need to wait till the next patch comes out for that bug to be addressed. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** If you are looking for an Enterprise level solution for handling transport of data from source to the destination safe, secure, non-repudiation, intact an **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our whole middleware system is based on MQ interfacing with Websphere message broker and Websphere Datapower Gateway. The beauty of IBM MQ is that it is wire-speed, stable, can not be hacked, non-repudiable, integrity is intact and surity of messaf ### 48. IBM MQ on zos user in Banking firm **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** I have been using IBM MQ as a messaging middleware in Banking payment landscape. MQ enables interaction between interfacing system seamlessly. We have been noticed the system resilience and availability since MQ is adopted as a strategic path within the bank. We are a happy consumer. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Things for improvement: DPL bridger performance issues. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** It's trusted product line from ibm **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** MQ keeps the business interaction between systems intact and less maintenance. ### 49. MQ as Middleware **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** We used MQ as middleware to make data transfer secure. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** The MQ configuration appears old-fashioned. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** MQ guarantees the safe transport of data. MQ is useful for not overloading the servers. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used MQ to communicate between Oracle Service BUS and CICS applications. The use of MQ ensured that we did not lose data. ### 50. Market leader in Middleware Technology **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** IBM MQ is a proprietary software from IBM. We have purchased the Enterprise edition in which you can create as many new queue managers and connections you want. The best part about it is that is the safest option for a message delivery system. It offers you non- repudiation, integrity of the message, checksum and all this is happening at wire speed for literally millions of transactions each day. The software has a bit of learning curve but once you fully understand the functionality, you realise how powerful, stable and fast it is compared to any other competitive products. IBM MQ is the best software available in the market for setting up a new PUB-SUB model or a full & partial repositories clustering model or even a one to one connection queue manager model. I have never seen better resource management that IBM MQ does in the clustering. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Well, no complaints from the software as such. But, IBM support team takes a lot of time to respond if you raise a problem ticket to them. We have to open a SEV 1 call bridge to get them on call and that support is very expensive. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been working on IBM MQ for more than 5 years now. We have delivered so many projects where the new platform was IBM MQ and they have been going on for ages without any issues, just regular health checks on queue managers and channel connections between them. 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