IBM MQ Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.2 out of 5

163 reviews
94% willing to recommend

1,790 followers

What is IBM MQ?

IBM MQ is a middleware product used to send or exchange messages across multiple platforms, including applications, systems, files, and services via MQs (messaging queues). This solution helps simplify the creation of business applications, and also makes them easier to maintain. IBM MQ is security-rich, has high performance, and provides a universal messaging backbone with robust connectivity. In addition, it also integrates easily with existing IT assets by using an SOA (service oriented architecture).

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IBM MQ is the #1 ranked solution in top Business Activity Monitoring solutions, top Message Queue Software, and top Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM MQ an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 163 most recent IBM MQ reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 6.7. (Among the highest in the category). IBM MQ is most commonly compared to MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: IBM MQ vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. IBM MQ is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 73% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 38% of all views.

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SelvaKumar4

System Analyst at Walmart

We find it scalable for internal applications, but not so much for external integrations. It should support a wider range of protocols, not just a few specific ones. Many other products have broader protocol support, and IBM MQ is lagging in that area. IBM MQ needs to improve the UI for quicker logging. Users should also have a lot more control over logging, with a dashboard-like interface. That's something they should definitely work on.

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Manjunath-V

Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Tata Consultancy Services

The GUI part could be better. The command line part is fine if the person knows the commands. However, we started using it on the GUI. It needs more direction, and it needs to be easier to understand. If the connectivity is not happening between the receiver and sender, it would be ideal to have some kind of a GUI that helps me to find the issue. Right now, whenever the connection is not happening, I use the debug a lot, and I use it to see configurations. I'd rather just have a message in the GUI that can say, for example, "The port is not enabled. The port is wrong." I used to get an issue with the connection. Maybe the configurations are perfect. However, the issue is on the other side, where maybe the component is down. I will only come to know that when I ping or ask the other person. Instead of that step, if there was a GUI that would tell me exactly what the issue is would make troubleshooting clear. In general, they need better visibility and not just the GUI design side. They need something that elaborates to the customer or user where the issue is. Technical support needs to be faster and more knowledgeable.

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Sanjay Sahu

People Manager at Capgemini

IBM support team is really only concerned with the IBM cloud. They're not supporting any other cloud platforms or suggestions. It would be nice if we could get support for Azure. MQ supports more than 4MB of data transmitting. That is not supported by ASB. Because of this feature, we are using MQ. Otherwise, clients will be motivated to use Azure Service Bus. IBM MQ should think about how the cost can be minimized and how to provide better service for users. MQ could provide more incentives or services that are better than Service Bus, so that our users will be motivated to use IBM MQ.

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IBM MQ mindshare

Product category:

As of December 2024, the mindshare of IBM MQ in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category stands at 29.5%, up from 26.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Message Queue (MQ) Software

PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Message Queue (MQ) Software	Dec 23, 2024	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 23, 2024	Download
Comparison	IBM MQ vs ActiveMQ	Dec 23, 2024	Download
Comparison	IBM MQ vs Amazon SQS	Dec 23, 2024	Download
Comparison	IBM MQ vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform	Dec 23, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform	4.0	N/A	91%	56 interviews Add to research
ActiveMQ	3.9	31.2%	88%	26 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"It is easy to create a new queue, and the queue manager connecting to the remote queue works smoothly once the IP and port are included."
"The most valuable features of IBM MQ are its guarantee of delivery, ability to handle high volume while maintaining high availability, and robust security measures such as SSL, TLS, and RBAC."
"It is quite stable."

Room for Improvement

"Better error handling, such as a default dead message queue for errors, would be beneficial."
"There are no improvements needed at this time."
"I couldn't find a lot of information on the system API side."

ROI

Pricing

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price a seven. The product is expensive."
"The license for IBM MQ is commercial and not cheap. You get a multi-platform solution, which is important because it lets you connect systems on mainframes, personal solutions, Unix, Linux, etc."
"The pricing needs improvement."

Popular Use Cases

Service and Support

Deployment

Scalability

Stability

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Top industries

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Financial Services Firm

38%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Healthcare Company

Retailer

Insurance Company

Transportation Company

University

Educational Organization

Media Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Construction Company

Comms Service Provider

Non Profit

Legal Firm

Outsourcing Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Logistics Company

Hospitality Company

Performing Arts

Pharma/Biotech Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

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Learn more about IBM MQ

IBM MQ can be deployed:

On-premises
In the cloud
Hybrid cloud

IBM MQ supports the following APIs:

MQI (Message Queue Interface)
REST
.NET
MQTT
JMS
IBM MQ Light

IBM MQ Features

Some of the most powerful IBM MQ features include:

High availability
Stability and scalability
Flexible deployment options
Uniform clusters
Automated and intelligent workload balancing
Broad language, API, and messaging protocol support
Administrative features that simplify messaging management
Open standards development tools
Simple management tools

IBM MQ Benefits

Some of the benefits of using IBM MQ include:

Multi-style messaging: IBM MQ supports simple multi-style messaging, making it easy to connect diverse systems with support for message queuing, transactions, and more.
Reduced risk: With IBM MQ you will never lose a message, and messages are never delivered more than once.
Cloud-native: Because IBM MQ has a minimal infrastructure, it is suitable to be cloud-native, and therefore has the capability to always remain on.
Available anywhere: Using IBM MQ, you have access to secure messaging anywhere, at any time.
Secure: IBM MQ makes sure to keep your data safe by using TLS secured communications, providing access identity management, message-level security, and more measures to protect your information.
Easy for application programmers: To use IBM MQ, application programmers do not need to have any knowledge of communications programming.
Technical support: IBM MQ has a large user community and also provides support 24/7 as needed.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by IBM MQ users who are currently using the solution.

PeerSpot user Sunil S., a manager at a financial services firm, explains that they never lose messages are never lost in transit, mentioning that he can store messages and forward them as required: "Whenever payments are happening, such as incoming payments to the bank, we need to notify the customer. With MQ we can actually do that asynchronously. We don't want to notify the customer for each and every payment but, rather, more like once a day. That kind of thing can be enabled with the help of MQ."

Another PeerSpot reviewer, Luis L. who is a solutions director at Thesys Technologies, says that IBM MQ is a valuable solution and is "A stable and reliable software that offers good integration between different systems."

The head of operations at a financial services firm notes that "I have found the solution to be very robust. It has a strong reputation, is easy to use, simple to configure in our enterprise software, and supports all the protocols that we use."

In addition, a Software Engineer at a financial services firm praises the security benefits of it and states that “it has the most security features I've seen in a communication solution. Security is the most important thing for our purposes."

IBM MQ was previously known as WebSphere MQ.