Simple, secure and container-ready - welcome to IBM MQ v9.2
Simple, secure and container-ready - welcome to IBM MQ v9.2 Learn more in the announcement blog
Many of the world’s most successful companies rely on MQ
• 85% of the Fortune 100¹
• 98 of the top 100 global banks²
• 8 of the top 10 global manufacturers³
• 9 of the top 10 global healthcare⁴
• 6 of the top 10 global retailers⁵
• 9 of the world’s top 10 global airlines⁶
• 9 of the top 10 global insurance⁷
• 9 of the top 10 global IT services⁸
Why MQ?
Massive amounts of data move as messages between applications, systems and services at any given time. If an application isn’t ready or if there’s a service interruption, messages and transactions can be lost or duplicated, costing businesses time and money to make things right.
IBM has expertly refined IBM MQ over 25 years on the market. With MQ, if a message can’t be delivered immediately, it’s secured in a queue, where it waits until delivery is assured. Where competitors may deliver messages twice or not at all, MQ moves data, including file data, once — and once only. Never lose a message with MQ.
Connect
Acting as a messaging center between applications on varied platforms, MQ connects virtually everything wherever it is, reducing integration time and cost, and reliably moving messages.
Protect
Designed for security — with built-in high availability and disaster recovery, MQ protects data at rest, in-flight and in-memory through fine-grained authentication and powerful data encryption.
Simplify
Because MQ handles connection and message retries for you, it frees developers to spend time on more critical initiatives. It also easily scales to seamlessly manage changes in transaction volumes.
Leading enterprise messaging for mission-critical business applications
Once-and-once-only delivery
Asynchronous messaging
Powerful protection
What’s new with MQ V9.2
Simplified, smart management
Automatically balance and rebalance your workload, combine HA and DR, control storage limits, explore our new UI, and gain entitlement to the IBM® Aspera® fasp.io. Gateway.
Augmented security
Benefit from updates in TLS 1.3, and dynamically select the cipherspecs that apply. Using AMS? We have Java keystore protection, PKCS#11 Java support, and encryption between queue managers (z/OS® only).
Expanded client application options
Run applications in .NET core, integrate better with IBM WebSphere® Liberty, use Java 11 clients, and make MFT agents highly available.
Accelerated Red Hat® OpenShift® experience
Pre-built MQ Advanced container with resilience and security provided. Benefit from a simplified administration experience by using the MQ Operator.
Get ahead with MQ Advanced
With the average cost of a data breach hitting USD 3.86 million globally⁹, businesses that move a lot of highly sensitive information need the powerful features of MQ Advanced. Where MQ protects data on the move, MQ Advanced extends those security features to protect data on the move and at rest — keeping messages encrypted while they’re stored in queues. It also lets you harness simple yet powerful high availability to protect data from unplanned outages. And it offers advanced blockchain coordination and file transfer capabilities that can help you modernize your infrastructure.
Product versions
Consider these other deployment options
IBM MQ Advanced
Get core IBM MQ functionality, with additional file transfer, end-to-end message data encryption and simplified high-availability capabilities.
IBM MQ Appliance
Get IBM MQ scalability and security and a high-specification appliance’s simplicity, convenience and low total cost of ownership. Ideal for clients consolidating their MQ estate.
IBM MQ for z/OS
With custom code designed for IBM z/OS®, IBM MQ is the best way to transfer data on the mainframe. Get the stability, reliability and security-rich messaging that can be used as the foundation of your business.
IBM MQ on the cloud
Deploy IBM MQ across clouds for a common messaging backbone. Gain assurance and peace of mind, while connecting to your existing on-premises MQ infrastructure.
Client stories
1-800-flowers
The e-commerce giant uses MQ to boost its brands’ synergies.
Universitats
MQ safely connects medical data across applications and systems.
Which option is right for you?
Try IBM MQ in the cloud
MQ on Cloud is the quickest way to get up and running on MQ. Get access to a queue manger in minutes with no infrastructure responsibilities and no downloads.
Try MQ on premises
Try the on-premises MQ solution for 90 days. Included are the latest MQ features, in addition to the full capabilities of MQ Advanced.
Go deeper into MQ
Discover a wealth of resources to help your organization get the most from MQ
Footnotes
¹ https://fortune.com/fortune500/2020/search (link resides outside ibm.com)
³ https://www.bizvibe.com/blog/largest-manufacturing-companies (link resides outside ibm.com)
⁵ https://nrf.com/blog/2020-top-50-global-retailers (link resides outside ibm.com)
⁹ Ponemon Institute, 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study: Impact of Business Continuity Management, October 2018; https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/4DNXZYWK (PDF, 3 MB)