Updated on 2024-04-23 GMT+08:00

IBM MQ

IBM MQ is a message queue software for asynchronous communication in a distributed system to secure reliable data transmission between applications, platforms, and systems. It serves as a middleware and prevents message loss, duplication, or disorder during transmission, and converts and formats data between different systems.

Creating an IBM MQ Connection

  1. Log in to the new ROMA Connect console.
  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Connector. On the page displayed, click New Connection.
  3. Select the IBM MQ connector.
  4. In the dialog box displayed, configure the connector and click OK.

    Parameter

    Description

    Name

    Enter the connector instance name.

    IP Address

    Enter the IP address of the IBM MQ host.

    Port

    Enter the port number of the IBM MQ host.

    Queue Mananger

    A system management program that provides queue services, APIs, and queue management services.

    CCSID

    Character set used to encode character strings in messages.

    Channel Name

    Channel for transferring messages between queue managers in the MQ system.

    Username

    User name for connecting to the IBM MQ.

    Password

    User password for connecting to the IBM MQ.

    SSL Enable

    Whether to use SSL authentication when connecting to the IBM MQ.

    • True
    • False

    Cipher Suite

    Mandatory when SSL Enable is set to True.

    Enter the cipher suite.

    Trust Store

    Mandatory when SSL Enable is set to True.

    Enter the Base64-encoded trust store file.

    Trust Store Password

    Mandatory when SSL Enable is set to True.

    Enter the password of the trust store.

    Description

    Enter the description of the connector to identify it.

Action

  • Listening to a topic
  • Listening to a queue

Configuration Parameters

Table 1 Listening to a topic

Parameter

Description

Name

Name of the message queue to listen.

Table 2 Listening to a queue

Parameter

Description

Name

Name of the message queue to listen.