IBM MQ Reviews

Ease of use and ease of setup. I'm an admin type, and I can set things up from the command line, and I can set things up through a GUI. It's easy to work with.

We really haven't had any problems with it. I don't have too many positive things to say because usually, I'm in it when things break, and that's when I form my opinions. And I haven't really had to form too many opinions on MQ because it's been really stable.

Can't think of anything right now. There's one little part, but I cannot remember it's name.

Good stability.

Good scalability.

We've had good luck with the MQ people at IBM, in helping us resolve problems.

It helps to plan, and it helps to understand the product. Sometimes management doesn't understand the project, they just go, "Oh hey, it sounds nice. Let's use it." Then they try to slap it on things they don't understand.

When choosing a vendor, stability and reliability are most important to me.

• Clustering
• Multi-instance

I have worked with IBM MQ for three to four years.

The stability and performance are good and our customers are happy with these aspects. In my years working with it I haven't seen many issues, and with the type of support IBM provides, it has been fine.

I have been in contact with IBM support many times. I am satisfied with the support.

The initial setup is straightforward. It's not very complex.

Most of our customers are quite happy with the solution but they have an issue with the cost. They want to move to cheaper solutions.

The best advice I can give is that it provides stability and performance and there's no loss of data. That is most important for our customers. The data will never be lost.

It is used by large enterprises.

One of the most valuable features is the standardization in terms of messaging; if you have MQ, you probably can talk to anybody. That's one thing: its compatibility. The other one is its stability.

It has improved my organization in many ways. As I’ve mentioned, it's sort of the standard in the market. If you use MQ, you probably can talk to anybody in the market. We also use IBM Integration Bus and they integrate well.

I would like to see them continue to improve the security features to make sure messages are both posted and delivered properly.

For the most part, it is stable. Sometimes, we have issues, but they are internal issues.

On the mainframe, it scales quite well. We're happy because it uses the mainframe's best qualities.

Technical support is average. In terms of efficiency and response time, it's average, comparable to any other vendor. It isn’t better than anybody else that we know.

It's a good product. Don't complicate things. Try to stick to the, let's say, out-of-the-box solutions. Don't be too creative. MQ is about sending messages; it doesn’t incorporate any logic at all.

When selecting a vendor to work with, the most important criteria is that it has to be a strategic vendor for my company to begin with. We have had a mainframe for a long time, so that's quite natural.