Service roles
Learn about service roles in IBM® MQ as a Service.
IBM MQ as a Service has three user roles:
- Service administrators can provision and de-provision queue managers, upgrade queue managers, and add and remove users and application credentials.
- IBM MQ administrators can manage the configuration of queue managers by using the IBM MQ Console, runmqsc, or REST.
- IBM MQ applications can connect to a queue manager by using an IBM MQ client connection to send and receive messages.
These roles are named and managed differently depending on the cloud provider.
| Cloud Provider | Service Role | Role Name | Where Managed |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | Service administrator | Service admin | IBM SaaS Console |
| AWS | IBM MQ administrator | MQ admin | IBM MQ SaaS Console |
| AWS | IBM MQ application | MQ application | IBM MQ SaaS Console |
| IBM Cloud (Reserved Instance) | Service administrator | Administrator | IBM Cloud IAM |
| IBM Cloud (Reserved Instance) | IBM MQ administrator | Manager | IBM Cloud IAM or IBM MQ as a Service Console |
| IBM Cloud (Reserved Instance) | IBM MQ application | Writer | IBM Cloud IAM or IBM MQ as a Service Console |
| IBM Cloud (Non-Reserved Instance) | Service administrator | Administrator | IBM Cloud IAM |
| IBM Cloud (Non-Reserved Instance) | IBM MQ administrator | Manager | IBM MQ as a Service Console |
| IBM Cloud (Non-Reserved Instance) | IBM MQ application | Writer | IBM MQ as a Service Console |