About this task
If you intend to use IBM App Connect Enterprise to process MQ messages, you
must install IBM MQ in addition to installing IBM App Connect Enterprise. On distributed systems, if you want to connect to a remote queue
manager to process MQ messages, you must install either an MQ Client or MQ Server on the same
machine as IBM App Connect Enterprise, in addition to installing MQ server on the
machine that is running your queue manager.
IBM MQ is available as a separate installation package, and your IBM App Connect Enterprise license entitles you to install and use IBM MQ with IBM App Connect Enterprise. For more information,
see Interaction between IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM MQ and Installing IBM MQ.
The following nodes are provided for working with
IBM MQ messages:
- MQInput node
- Use an MQInput node if the messages arrive on an IBM MQ queue, and the node is to be at the start of a message flow.
- MQOutput node
- Use an MQOutput node
if the target application expects to receive messages on an IBM MQ queue, or on the IBM MQ reply-to queue that is specified
in the input message MD.
- MQGet node
- Use an MQGet node to
retrieve a message from an IBM MQ queue,
if you want to get the message later in the message flow.
- MQReply node
- Use an MQReply node
if the target application expects to receive messages on the IBM MQ reply-to queue that is specified
in the input message MD.
- MQHeader node
- Use the MQHeader nodes
to manipulate IBM MQ transport
headers and their properties without writing compute nodes. Use the MQHeader node to add, modify,
or delete Message Descriptor (MD) and Dead Letter Header (DLH) headers.
- JMSMQTransform node
- Use the JMSMQTransform node
to transform a message with a JMS message tree into a message that
has a tree structure that is compatible with the format of messages
that are produced by the IBM MQ JMS
provider.
The JMSMQTransform node
can be used to send messages to existing message flows and to interoperate
with IBM MQ JMS and IBM MQ Publish/Subscribe.
- MQJMSTransform node
- Use the MQJMSTransform node
to receive messages that have an IBM MQ JMS
provider message tree format, and transform them into a format that
is compatible with messages that are to be sent to JMS destinations.
You
can use the MQJMSTransform node
to send messages to existing message flows and to interoperate with IBM MQ JMS and IBM MQ Publish/Subscribe.
The following topics contain information
that you need to understand before you can use the
IBM MQ support in
IBM App Connect Enterprise:
For step-by-step information about how to use
MQ nodes to perform a set of typical tasks, see Working with IBM MQ.
See the following topics
for more information about configuring your message flows, and about
related resources for handling messages that are received from or
sent to
IBM MQ applications: