Simple, secure and container ready — welcome to IBM MQ 9.2
Simple, secure and container ready — welcome to IBM MQ 9.2 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.
MQ is now available with other capabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, which can help you achieve your application modernization goals as part of your journey to cloud.
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Connect
MQ acts as a messaging center between applications on varied platforms. It connects virtually everything wherever it is, reducing integration time and cost, and reliably moving messages.
Protect
MQ is designed for security — with built-in high availability and disaster recovery. It protects data at rest, in-flight and in-memory through fine-grained authentication and powerful data encryption.
Simplify
MQ handles connection and message retries for you, to free developers to spend time on more critical initiatives. It also easily scales to seamlessly manage changes in transaction volumes.
Next-level integration
IBM MQ is just one part of a modern approach to integration. It’s now in IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration with everything else you need to round out your capabilities.
Leading enterprise messaging for mission-critical business applications
Once-and-once-only delivery
Asynchronous messaging
Powerful protection
What’s new with MQ 9.2
Simplified, smart management
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 (IBM z/OS® only).
Expanded client application options
Run applications in .NET core, integrate better with IBM WebSphere® Liberty, use Java 11 clients and make managed file transfer agents (MFTs) highly available.
Accelerated Red Hat® OpenShift® experience
Use prebuilt MQ Advanced containers with resilience and security-rich features provided. Benefit from a simplified administration experience by using IBM 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 features and a high-specification appliance’s simplicity, convenience and low total cost of ownership. It's ideal for clients consolidating their MQ estate.
IBM MQ for z/OS®
Use custom code designed for IBM z/OS 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 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 on Cloud
Get up and running on MQ quickly wiht IBM MQ on Cloud. 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)