Business Integration With The Mqseries Family; Features - IBM i series Handbook

Business Integration with the MQSeries Family

Business integration means that different computer systems, employees, business partners,
and suppliers work together to provide the best and most innovative service to the enterprise
and its customers. The barriers of diverse computer systems, geographic boundaries, time
differences, language and format differences, and different methods of working can all be
overcome with the MQSeries family.
Business integration means that it is possible to:
• Connect customers, suppliers, partners, and service providers, while maintaining
security and control, to enable newly built and re-engineered applications for more
effective business processes (for example, supply-chain management).
• Make mergers and acquisitions a success by integrating dissimilar IT infrastructures
from two or more companies so they can work as a single entity.
• React more quickly to market trends and opportunities because IT systems are flexible
and dependable, and no longer constraining.
Different hardware and software platforms can behave as if they were designed to work
together.

Features

• Heterogeneous any-to-any connectivity from desktop to mainframe (over 35 platforms
supported)
• A single consistent API, shielding developers from networking complexity
• Allows a business to integrate disparate islands of automation
• Time-independent communication
• Guaranteed one-time delivery
• Retains close integration with OS/400
• Makes full use of built-in iSeries features (for example, journaling and CL command
interface)
• Enhances work management and security for greater ease-of-use
• An interactive interface to MQ commands to make administration easier for users
familiar with other MQSeries platforms
• Support for remote administration through the MQ Explorer, an element of MQSeries
for Windows NT, V5.1
• Improved scalability of MQSeries applications on the iSeries server by increased
maximum message and message queue sizes (100 MB and 2 GB respectively)
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