Using IBM MQ links to connect a bus to an IBM MQ network
If you operate within a WebSphere® Application Server environment, sending messages across a service integration bus, you can also exchange point-to-point and publish/subscribe messages with applications in an IBM MQ network. To do this, you configure a foreign bus connection that links to a IBM MQ network through a IBM MQ link.
Before you begin
Decide which method to use to configure these resources. You can configure a IBM MQ link by using the administrative console as described in this task, or you can configure a IBM MQ link by using the wsadmin tool.
About this task
An IBM MQ link provides a server to server channel connection between a service integration bus and an IBM MQ queue manager or queue-sharing group, which acts as the gateway to the IBM MQ network. The link operates on a messaging engine in a service integration bus to provide functions that simplify and automate interoperation with IBM MQ.
- The IBM MQ queue manager or queue-sharing group in the IBM MQ network through which your messages will flow
- Whether to enable WebSphere Application Server applications to publish and subscribe to a message broker in the IBM MQ network