IBM MQ
IBM® MQ is robust, secure and reliable messaging middleware. It uses messages and queues to support exchange of information between applications, systems, services and files. It simplifies and accelerates the integration of different applications and business data across multiple platforms. It supports a wide range of APIs and languages, and can be deployed on-premises, in cloud, and in hybrid cloud.
IBM MQ for Multiplatforms and IBM MQ for z/OS
The documentation for these products is presented in a single documentation set, subdivided into the following categories. Each category contains topics that apply to the IBM MQ for Multiplatforms product, or to the IBM MQ for z/OS® product, or to both products. This documentation is for the IBM MQ 9.4 Long Term Support release and its maintenance, as well as for the IBM MQ 9.4 Continuous Delivery releases.
IBM MQ Explorer
IBM MQ Explorer is an optional graphical user interface that runs on Windows and Linux® x86-64. It can remotely connect to queue managers that are running on any supported platform including z/OS, enabling your entire messaging backbone to be viewed, explored, and altered from the console.
IBM MQ in containers and IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
You can run IBM MQ in the pre-packaged container provided in IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration, IBM MQ, IBM MQ Advanced, and IBM MQ Advanced for Developers. This IBM MQ Advanced Container offers a supported image and Operator, and can be used to deploy a production-ready IBM MQ image into container environments such as Red Hat® OpenShift® and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.
You can also run IBM MQ in a container you build yourself.
IBM MQ on Cloud
This managed service is available in both IBM Cloud® and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The IBM MQ on Cloud service lets you use IBM MQ as a managed offering, leaving IBM to handle upgrades, patches and also many of the operational management tasks, and allowing you to focus on the integration of IBM MQ with your applications.
See IBM MQ on Cloud.
IBM MQ Appliance
The IBM MQ Appliance is a hardware product that provides IBM MQ ready installed and ready to use. There is no general-purpose operating system that is exposed to the administrator or messaging user, and everything that runs on the appliance is factory-installed in the appliance firmware.
See IBM MQ Appliance.