--- 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. engineering manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** victor m. | engineer manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** the rtechnical and user both have interaction using the product. when an issue is present we cn easily work with technical support but this requires a lot of error messaging not related to MQ. there should be more messaging that can be provided without MQ having the issue. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** the messaging sometimes not related to MQ and we end up spending a lot of time in our triage. the product should have a transformation to be more user friendly. The MQ team always in the heart of our triage and a lot of times not MQ related. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** mainframe solutions ### 2. MQ as an Heterogeneous Enterprise Integration Asset **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John E. | DLA Enterprise MQ Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The flexibility, feature set, and widespread use of the product in the industry has allowed it to be a defacto standard in this technology. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Maintaining technical relevance as an administrator is becoming difficult with the amalgamated peripheral technologies being added to the base product. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** MQ is not freeware, but as a result, it is well supported, well designed, technically superior to most competing products. It requires considerable administrative attention, but the benefits outweigh the complexity requirements. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multi-agency / Military service interoperability and integration between messaging partners who do not have a singe hierarchical management structure. ### 3. MQ still does an awesome job getting your transactional data where it needs to go, exactly once! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Warehousing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Full backward compatability in a product that is evolving to meet customer needs in the connected cloud world. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Competitive analysis of products that aren't even trying to provide anything like each other, but someone shouts out that product 1 is 5 times faster than product 2, but doesn't say that the quality of service was different, or product 1 was fully tuned by company specialists, but product 2 was a default install out of the box on a laptop. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** High performance reliable once and once only delivery of business critical messages across a distributed messaging mesh. The business can use the delivery mesh to ensure delivery of the ordering and billing messages, and therefore doesn't need to build complex and expensive error recovery code into the application layer. ### 4. Product Review - IBM MQ on Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajay G. | Frontend Developer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** There are 2 things which i like the most about IBM MQ on cloud. Firstly, you can have a multi cloud connectivity or I say we were using Public and Private cloud together. Another thing, Pay for what you use. You can quickly scale up the message queues as per the demand. Let's say you know some festival season is coming , then that time you can scale up to handle those requests. Another thing you can easily integrate with the language you are using. It provides a great range of API's and multiple language supports like Nodejs,Go, Python, etc. One of the main things when we are dealing with data is Persistency. So you don't have to worry about the data as it's persistent. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I didn't find how to enable the horizontal auto scaling so that i don't have to manually scale the messaging workers. Another thing, when you are dealing with high rate of messages you can see a bit of lag as well or I say you can see the effect on the performance. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Companies which want to setup a multi cloud enterprise messaging should use this product. It's really easy to setup and you can do a small POC to try at a very basic level. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were trying to setup a messaging channel for the application across different clouds or say multi cloud connectivity with a secured and reliable setup. ### 5. MQ Possibility **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg S. | Sr. Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** When we looked into using MQ with our B2B Integrator setup, we really liked the speed and throughput it would give us over our traditional file system-based transfer methods. The replay-ability was great and we were really excited about the possiblity of using it. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** We do a lot of FIFO (98 % of data) and we were unable to get the customer isolation we wanted using MQ and the built in SI FIFO queues. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting rid of the use of file systems for transferring data back and forth. ### 6. IBM MFT is good for our use case **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nash G. | Application Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ provides a decent solution for file transfers. Transfers are generally fast. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** MFT seems like a bit of an after thought at times. There are a not a lot of exciting features for MFT announced. We have had issues with bugs and transfers not going through but there doesn't seem to be logs written. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to move many large files across different platforms, data centers, and storage nodes. IBM MQ helps us to do this quickly and securely. ### 7. More than messages and queues **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ can be run on every operating system there is and allows you to send messages or data to anywhere else. It lets you send to multiple destinations too or can be used for publish and subscribe, you can even send to the cloud. Messages can be persistent so they are saved over a system crash. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** MQ means you have to connect to a queue and then send so if you only send one message thats two steps but if you want to send a lot of data it is easy to just keep sending. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** You can use it with cloud now :-) **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sending messages or data reliably from many places to one or many places. ### 8. VEry reliable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rick s. | infrastruction analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** We use MQ to transfer hundreds of millions of messages reliably over zOs, Unix/linux and windows. 100+ application areas use MQ for both app to app messaging and for db2 replication. We have been using MQ for over 20 years. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** There isn't a great deal of issues that we have. probably an easy to use monitoring and alerting tool would be more useful. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** data replication, app to app messaging. ### 9. Key tool for messaging and one to look at even as you move to new technology stacks **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John N. | Executive director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ has kep space with the times moving into cloud based (both private and public cloud) environments and is still a key tool in managing messaging between apps and environments. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Setup and configuration is still painful but increasingly easy with scripts and setups on the cloud management platforms. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Still the key messaging protocol between our legacy mainframe and also new apps being developed. ### 10. Integration Architect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi T. | Lead Architect, Enterprise Cloud Platform, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Wide platform support to integrate almost any-to-any **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Did not transform with the industry to support API. Now enterprises are using MQ, but are forced to build custom application layers or use additional products like Datapower and such to provide http endpoints. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** IBM should help existing investment to be useful **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration into legacy M/F applications and thus leveraging core business apps developed earlier. ### 11. IBM mq products are the most reliable messaging software i ever used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jay l. | sr web administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** gauranteed delivery and ease of use. its the best product out there for integration **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** better monitoring utilities is needed, it can also have a good logging **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** this is one of the most reliable messaging products in the industry **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are using ibm mq to move messages around for insurance data manupulation and used as a underlying layer to IBM Integraiton bus ### 12. IBM MQ Administrator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomasq D. | Middleware Engineering Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** I like the integration with Event Streams [Apache Kafka] and the ability to perform asynchronous messages across different technological platforms. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I dislike some of the usage based licensing models for this product. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** MQ seems to be headed in the right direction, no complaints other than some of the licensing models seem strangely designed. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asynchronous messaging, event streaming, and legacy ### 13. IBM MQ is a solid and established messaging middleware **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** 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 IBM MQ?** 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 IBM MQ 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. ### 14. MQ - Robust Messaging **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ's robust and solid presence for over 25 years has shown over the years. I am fortunate to have been involved with using this product for the last 12 years. We have always had support for everything we need from troubleshooting to implementation and usage. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I would like to see an authorization based web console provided with MQ that can span over a large enterprise without any performance issues. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use MQ for messaging between stores, DCs and our Home Office. Its ease of implementation and maintenance has been very beneficial in our environment. ### 15. IBM MQ as a service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The IBM MQ product is very Reliable, stable, highly avaiable solution for mission critical applications. we offer a shared Messaging service using IBM MQ for all the business applications to use . **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** nothing really. But now with Kafka products , IBM MQ seems old school. all developers are excited about kafka even their use case really does not demand it. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** find the right use case for IBM MQ as kafka is getting undue popularity **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** pub/sub. message delivery without failure. gauramteed messaging so there is no data loss in case of site failures ### 16. messaging backbone **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Robust security features strong features for on-premise enterprise ready messaging extending features to include connectivity for cloud-native apps and container-based deployments **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** complexity of configuration for apps on non-IBM Cloud infrastructure **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** the first implementation is not a steep learning curve getting Security and HA integarated with existing or emerging Enterprise infrastructre can take some time and resources and iterations **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** HA, resilient healthcare messaging messaging backbone for ACE and IIB - robust Pub Sub and connectivity strong support for security evolving mechanisms for HA and DR ### 17. Ibm Mq feedback **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shailesh B. | Head of Middleware & Grid (Americas), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** We have been using a Mq for almost 20+ years and we have some latge infra with almost around 10,000+ Queue mangerst jso it’s a big big deal infrastructure for Support sake critical applications **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** The challenge is that the cloud applications **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Persistence asynchronousguaranteed delivery ### 18. IBM MQ Customer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The main feature I appreciate the most with IBM MQ is the assured delivery capabilities. With data movement and all the infrastructure depencies it's critical to be able to guarentee messages are not getting lost. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** IBM MQ has a number of administration and configuration attributes that requires manual commandline execution. Exposing more capablities via the REST API would enable more self service offerings to our Application teams. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Decoupling our application interfaces and enabling intergration between our business services. ### 19. Reliable message **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Magendran G. | Solution Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Simple to configure on distributed platforms Simple administration Wide platform support Secure Reliable deliver once message Programming interfaces for all the widely used development languages **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Message monitoring needs to be made simpler Lacks usage/SLA alerting **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Async integration Supporting micro services ### 20. mq **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** reeta h. | IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** I like how it integrates with platforms. Our organization uses it with AIX platform. It's benificial to use the product. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** THe support at times can be hit or miss. MQ needs clear direction on roadmap. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** User applications ### 21. IBM mq rosks **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jinnu j. | Systems Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** With over 10 million messages in our environment it always work seamlessly **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** sometimes the version of websphere and mq doesn't go well which makes it hard to get the product work **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** insurance and financial ### 22. Great for message handling **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Easy onloading of messages (in my case SOAP), for later offloading in another application. Makes sure that our data is not lost, when communication between applications. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Can be hard to set up, and educate colleagues in how to use it correctly. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it to send data between different applications. Ex. Case Manager flow puts on a SOAP message on the MQ, and this message is picked up by another Liberty Application. ### 23. The best in messaging **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shobhan G. | Infrastrcuture Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** I particularly like the robustness of MQ as a messaging solution for diverse applications on multiplatform **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I love everything that MQ offers and there is nothing that I dislike about MQ **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** INtegration ### 24. MQ Message Queue **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giri U. | Senior Manager, IT, Computer Hardware, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Functional rich and easy to use; integration with lots of tools. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Takes sometime to understand, but better than open source RabbitMQ **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Very well recommended **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Messaging Infrastructure for our EDI applications ### 25. Made our migration easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Easy integration with the existing application. With out too many code changes we were able integrate our application with MQ. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Nothing specific to the features except the pricing model. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were implementing microservice architecture. Publisher and subscriber architecture used to dicsonnect the service. IBM MQ fitted well in our architecture to address the bottle neck. When the requet failed, we implemented retry mechnism using dead letter queue. ### 26. IBM Product Review for MQ **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Baba M. | Sr Enterprise Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Easy to use light weight, easy deployment and redundancy **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** too expensive, should be able to compete with Rabbit MQ... and not make it as IIB **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** File transfers between internal apps ### 27. MQ Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adil G. | System Analyst 4, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Easy of installation and use. Flexibility. Fast start stop **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Lack of detailed logs without starting traceing **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mq is takling to BPM, WAS, portal and BD2 in our agency's infrastructure. ### 28. MQ reliability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aparna K. | IT Manager II, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Ease of use reliability guaranteed message delivery **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** It would be nice to have the capability to use large size messages than 100MB **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Definitely use it **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** platform for EAI ### 29. Stable and Reliable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leonardo S. | Leonardo Sant Anna, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The speed and the management software is in the core of the system. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Its hard to find material with deep enougth information to easily the process **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Payment method ### 30. MQ is Crazy Good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suganya R. | Technology Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The reliability and assurance of delivery of the messages **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Nothing Really! I really like working with this messaging product **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving important data between clouds and data centers ### 31. Genious product to Communicate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kurt H. | z/OS Systemprogrammer, Outsourcing/Offshoring, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Genious product to asyncronously communication API between different platforms and locations. Very stabile **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Nothing - I see no disadvantages in this product **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communicating with partner/ customers ### 32. Move data across multiple applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shyam T. | Solution Design, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Assures delivery of data across multiple applications. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Not much to dislike, but tracing of messages could be simplified **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Move patient data across multiple clinical applications ### 33. MQTT with MQ **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael K. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Was the first MQTT implementation available to us **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** MQTT plugin was not really reliable, tended to hang, didnt respond **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used the MQTT Plugin ### 34. MQ reliable message platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ is our enterprise message and the application intergration is very easy and reliable. We are using MQ for payment processing and the reason for using this product it is the secure transportation and monitoring capabilities like Queue alerts. Its a great message product. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Its very heavy weight product and some its difficult to troubleshoot when the message is lot. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Realibility ### 35. IBM MQ Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** 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 IBM MQ?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** 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. **What problems is IBM MQ 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. ### 36. Reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** IBM MQ is reliable and handles our requests/responses efficiently. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I can't think of anything. the MQ has been a non-issue for us which is a good thing. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** MQ receives our channel's requests and sends them to our services which in turn our response is returned to the channel. We need reliability and speed ### 37. MQ & CICS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** 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 IBM MQ?** Nothing really, its a great tool for CICS. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** None at the Moment ### 38. Messaging Master "MQ" **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ - ease of use , guranteed delivery , no failures , stable prodcut **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** not up to the mark specific to cloud native **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** ease of use , gurentted delivery , no failures and compatible with mnost of leading produts and clouds **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** for real time and batch messaging without message loss ### 39. First look at MQ on Cloud **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The easy way you could set up a queue manager and the keys **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** This was my first look at this conference, so it will take a little while for me to find my dislikes **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in the transportation field. So problems around moving, tracking trains. Also billing. ### 40. MQ for event logging **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** The persistence, e.g. the ability to simply add to a queue, which can then be consumed once the back end system is ready for consumption **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** The setup time from both develop and ops perspective. The learning curve is also huge when it comes to configuration. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Persistent event logging ### 41. Secure reliable message transfer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It has so fast, secure, reliable message transfer capabilities. It can connect to variety of products. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** The cost of buying the product is higher and It needs to have a rest api to get the messages. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration solutions between legacy and modern day systems ### 42. reliable messaging solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** stabke ... It just runs by itself seldom cause any issue **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** none. we are working on upgrade current verision of MQ to latest in order to continue getting support from IBM which we do not use much :) **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** excahnge B2B transactions between on prremise systems and SAAS ### 43. MQ helps to keep messages flowing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** IBM MQ is easy to install, configure and get running. Using MQ on Power, running AIX works very well. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** At this time everything has been working very well and do not have any issues, **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Messages through Integration Broker flow fast and retries are mostly successful. ### 44. MQ **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ is easy to set up , fault tolerant , assurred delivery, easy to mon itor, solid uptime **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** would be nice to have a way to recover old messages from the log **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are able to move messages across many platforms connecting multiple apps ### 45. Message Reliability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ is really reliable and secure. We use both MQ and IIB to transfer and transform the complicate messages. Easy to coding and easy to deploy. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Hard to upgrade the version; and the disaster recover environment is hard to setup **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asynchronius Integration ### 46. IBM MQ on the cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Mainly MQ managed services on the call , to make sure mq is extend to cloud securely **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** MQ MFT option on the cloud , its losing to competion like axway **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** MQ clustering, Bridge to cloud , MQ cloud and DR ### 47. MQ is the best messaging product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** I want MQ will be best product for messaging in world I spent 20 yesrs on this Hanu **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** use more MQ in our BSC project and other projects in blueshgield ca **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** all please use MQ **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** EDI issue s solved ### 48. Manager of Middleware Services (including MQ) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** 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 IBM MQ?** Advanced Message Security use case seem to be limited and not widely adopted. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reliable messaging. ### 49. rock solid messaging **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** all kind of platforms supported including appliances **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** in a distributed heterogeneous mq landscape management becomes a burden; additionally more support for self-service by development pipelines ci/cd for provisioning and deployment **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** xost-effective messaging; integrating different type of applications ### 50. MQ at RJ **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Very mature and stable, applicance has improved DR and HA capabilities. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Not great instrumentation out of the box **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Large enterprises with need to keep persistent messages should look into the applicance **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving asycnronous data across differnt platforms ## IBM MQ Discussions - [Is IBM MQ free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-ibm-mq-free) - 1 comment - [What is IBM MQ used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-mq-used-for) - 2 comments - [View IBM MQ pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-26+00%3A34%3A03+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=662d84b2-dc96-467d-b3ec-e2df30693ed1&secure%5Btoken%5D=6d6dc0734097a3ac4bf4a3b17c197cbfd6b731c6e7b3350a32232dd29285453c&format=llm_user) ## IBM MQ Integrations - [Apache Kafka](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kafka/reviews) - [IBM App Connect](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-app-connect/reviews) - [IBM Instana](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews) ## IBM MQ Features **Functionality** - Asynchronous Messaging - Language Support - Cloud-based Messaging - Latency **Risk** - Internal - Compliance **Integration** - Application Integration - Data Integration - Plugins and integrations **Recovery** - Disaster Recovery - Business Recovery - Contingency Planning **Management** - Policies and Controls - Security Monitoring - Activity Monitoring **Agentic AI - Business Activity Monitoring** - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Message Queue (MQ)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance ## Top IBM MQ Alternatives - [MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (657 reviews) - [Apache Kafka](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kafka/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (127 reviews) - [RabbitMQ](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (46 reviews)