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IBM MQ pros and cons

Vendor: IBM

4.2 out of 5

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SS

Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2020

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.

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reviewer1302078

Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2020

What is quite useful is the asynchronous function which means we don't lose everything in the bank. Although we use a lot of things synchronously, asynch is the best thing so that no banking information is ever lost, even when the network goes down and comes up.

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IT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 22, 2017

There are a lot of extensible options for security, i.e., various things you can do. It's pretty easy to navigate.

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Solutions Director at Thesys Technologies

Jan 4, 2022

A stable and reliable software that offers good integration between different systems.

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reviewer1579410

Head Of Operations at Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Jun 29, 2021

I have found the solution to be very robust. It has a strong reputation, easy to use, simple to configure in our enterprise software, and supports all the protocols that we use.

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Rahul Jayakumar Lekha

Integration Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 21, 2022

I haven't seen any issues with respect to the message loss.

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Abraham Ansah-Cudjoe

Unix/Linux Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 22, 2020

The most valuable feature is the Queue Manager, which lies in the middle between our application and our core banking server.

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reviewer1688772

Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 6, 2021

IBM is still adding some features and coding some other systems on the security end. However, it has the most security features I've seen in a communication solution. Security is the most important thing for our purposes.

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Lead Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jun 17, 2020

The most valuable feature is that it's a very strong integration platform but it is quite a monolithic solution. It's got everything.

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PP

Senior Middleware Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Dec 1, 2020

Currently, we are not using many advanced features. We are only using point-to-point MQ. I have previously used features like context-based authentication, SSL authentication, and high availability. These are good and pretty cool features. They make your business reliable. For critical business needs, everyone uses only IBM MQ. It is the first choice because of its reliability. There is a one-send-and-one-delivery feature. It also has a no-message-loss feature, and because of that, only IBM MQ is used in banking or financial sectors.

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Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2020

I would like to see it integrate with the newer ways of messaging, such as Kafka. They might say that you have IBM Integration Bus to do that stuff, but it would be great if MQ could, out-of-the-box, listen to public Kafka.

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reviewer1302078

Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2020

The scalability is the one area where IBM has fallen behind. As much as it is used, there is a limit to the number of people who are skilled in MQ. That is definitely an issue. Places have kept their MQ-skilled people and other places have really struggled to get MQ skills. It's not a widely-known skillset.

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IT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 22, 2017

Presenting and maybe having some different options for different user experiences based on the administrative duties that you have to do as an app manager or configure the server or security would be an improvement.

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Solutions Director at Thesys Technologies

Jan 4, 2022

Sometimes, not all messages are consumed in the queues. File transfers need improvement.

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reviewer1579410

Head Of Operations at Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Jun 29, 2021

Everything in the solution could be simplified a little. We have trouble with the configuration and cost which is mostly an internal issue, but nevertheless, the errors do come up when there are configuration changes across a specific version. We have slightly different versions, which may have slightly different configurations which cause issues.

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Rahul Jayakumar Lekha

Integration Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 21, 2022

While there is support for API, it's not like the modern API capabilities.

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Abraham Ansah-Cudjoe

Unix/Linux Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 22, 2020

The memory management is very poor and it consumes too much memory.

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reviewer1688772

Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 6, 2021

There are many complications with IBM MQ servers.

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Lead Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jun 17, 2020

It's hard to put in a nutshell, but it's sort of developed as more of an on-premise solution. It hasn't moved much away from that.

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PP

Senior Middleware Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Dec 1, 2020

It would be an advantage if they can include streaming in IBM MQ, similar to Kafka. Kafka is used mainly for streaming purposes. This feature is clearly lacking in IBM MQ. If they add this feature to IBM MQ, it will have an edge over other products.

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