After having worked earlier with other Message Queuing systems like AS/400 Data Queues, MSMQ, Apache ActiveMQ and Oracle AQ, I recently was involved using IBM WebSphere MQ. WebSphere MQ Clients are available for free on many platforms. The project involved using WebSphere MQ Client 5.3 and will most likely upgrade to 7.0, so here are some download links that help during the process of preparing for the upgrade:
- WebSphere MQ Clients documentation (PDF download) is 169 pages A4
- WebSphere MQ Client 5.3 for Windows XP Professional (the macvEnUS.zip English download is 88 MB)
- WebSphere MQ V 6.0 clients (the mqc6_6.0.2.11_win.zip English download is 74 MB)
- WebSphere 7.0.1.3 trial which includes the clients (the CZRV5ML.zip multilingual download for Windows is 473 MB) Note: you need have the “WebSphere Eclipse Platform Version 3.3” prerequisite installed (it is in the “CZRV5ML\cdimage_trial\Prereqs\IES” directory of the trial)
One of the reasons for being at least at V6.0, is that it allows you to specify credentials during a MQCONNX call and using MQCNO_VERSION_5 which enables the use of the SecurityParams (a demo is here) of the MQCNO structure. There is much more to diff, so hopefully more on that later.
–jeroen
