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IBM Licensed Programs: Networking Products
MQSeries Integrator is a powerful message-brokering software product. It provides real-time,
intelligent rules-based message routing, and content transformation and formatting. It
seamlessly integrates applications, databases, and networks. MQSeries Integrator is
optimized for high volume, in-storage transformation of messages.
The iSeries platform joins the other key platforms on which MQSeries Integrator is available.
The refresh level of product at V1.1 is consistent across the MQSeries Integrator offerings on
all distributed platforms and is available concurrently for all platforms. Usability, serviceability,
and GUI improvements help the user:
• Be more selective when viewing the components that make up a format
• Use a find option
• Browse relationships between components at different levels
• Use import or export functions to extract from a database into a file to edit or import
into other systems
• Try out formats and definitions using a visual tester
MQSeries Integrator offers these advantages:
• Makes it easier to integrate applications and data enterprise-wide
• Provides faster access to information
• Shortens time to market
• Improves customer service and reduces overall costs
• Opens up the information in IT systems to suppliers and customers
• Helps leverage the value chain to improve quality and accelerate responsiveness to
change
• Relieves the burden of modifying applications every time they are integrated, that is,
connected in new ways
• Transforms and routes data outside the application, without the need for valuable
programming and communications skills
Messages pass through a central connection point, the hub, that acts as the core for holding
enterprise intelligence. It is designed to handle any volume of traffic, no matter how heavy or
complex. The hub maintains two types of knowledge:
• Knowledge of the applications to enable transformation of message formats. If
packaged applications are involved, application templates enable a quick start to
integrating those applications with the rest of the enterprise.
• Knowledge of business rules and information requirements to enable intelligent routing
of information to where it is needed. Rules, whether complex or simple, can be defined
to tailor information flow.
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