COBOL and MQSeries

IBM® MQSeries® messaging products enable application integration by helping business applications to exchange information across different platforms by sending and receiving data as messages. They take care of network interfaces, assure 'once only' delivery of messages, deal with communications protocols, dynamically distribute workload across available resources, handle recovery after system problems, and help make programs portable. MQSeries is available on over 35 platforms.

With MQSeries, your ILE COBOL program can communicate with other programs on the same platform or a different platform using the same messaging product. For more information on MQSeries, including hardware and software requirements, please see the IBM Systems Software Information Center.

For several examples of IBM i COBOL applications using the MQSeries API, check the MQSeries documentation. In the Information Center, click Programming > WebSphere® MQ.