WebSphere MQ with DB2
WebSphere® MQ is a message handling system that enables applications to communicate in a distributed environment across different operating systems and networks.
WebSphere MQ
handles the communication from one program to another by using application
programming interfaces (APIs). You can use any of the following APIs
to interact with the WebSphere MQ
message handling system:
- Message Queue Interface (MQI)
- WebSphere MQ classes for Java™
- WebSphere MQ classes for Java Message Service (JMS)
DB2® provides its own application programming interface to the WebSphere MQ message handling system through a set of external user-defined functions, which are called DB2 MQ functions. You can use these functions in SQL statements to combine DB2 database access with WebSphere MQ message handling. The DB2 MQ functions use the MQI APIs.