IBM MQ network

If we operate within a WebSphere Application Server environment, sending messages across a service integration bus, we can also exchange point-to-point and publish/subscribe messages with applications in an IBM MQ network. To do this, we configure a foreign bus connection that links to an IBM MQ network through an IBM MQ link.

An 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.

Using the IBM MQ link panels of the WAS administration console, we can choose:

• The IBM MQ queue manager or queue-sharing group in the IBM MQ network through which your messages will flow
• Whether to enable WAS applications to publish and subscribe to a message broker in the IBM MQ network

Tasks

• Learn about interoperating with an IBM MQ network
• Create a new IBM MQ link using the console
• Create a IBM MQ link
• Administer an existing IBM MQ link
• Create applications that can interoperate with IBM MQ