Application Integration with WebSphere MQ and MQ/204

Today’s enterprises are both enriched and challenged by highly complex IT infrastructures. Enriched because abundant software, inexpensive servers and powerful networks allow us to choose the right technology and platform for each job. Challenged because no application is an island, yet the myriad of operating systems and development environments used throughout the enterprise have a tendency to isolate applications from one another.

WebSphere MQ from IBM solves all that by enabling business applications to easily exchange information across scores of different operating systems. MQ/204 from Computer Corporation of America provides full support for WebSphere MQ from within Model 204, allowing Model 204 applications to communicate with nearly any other business application on the network.

WebSphere MQ: Opening the Lines of Communication

WebSphere MQ is a message queuing middleware product that provides an easy-to-use programming interface, and allows enterprise applications to exchange information freely and easily. In the simplest case, Application A puts a message on a queue, and Application B retrieves it. But depending on your application needs, the scenario could be far more complex, and involve multiple computers, multiple queues, and deferred messages.

A WebSphere MQ implementation involving applications on different computers.

WebSphere MQ is an invaluable component of the IT infrastructure, and continues to dominate a growing market. To leverage this powerful technology from Model 204, Computer Corporation of America provides MQ/204, which helps you:

	Preserve IT investment by communicating instead of rewriting.
	Eliminate duplicate efforts that kept related applications in synch
	Choose the best technology for each application without sacrificeMQ/204: User Language

Meets WebSphere MQ

MQ/204 is an intuitive extension to User Language that lets you take full advantage of WebSphere MQ from within Model 204. By simply learning a few new command parameters, programmers can modify User Language applications to put and retrieve messages to and from WebSphere MQ queues. So Model 204 can exchange information with other applications on the network, regardless of the operating systems or development environments in use.

Begin realizing the benefits of MQSeries immediately

MQ/204’s intuitive command interface helps you take advantage of Websphere MQ quickly, and with minimal impact on existing applications. It provides access to nearly every feature of Websphere MQ, right from within User Language programs. So you can use Model 204 variables and images in your Websphere MQ operations. And there’s no need to link to complex, external routines.

Reduce implementation expenses

In addition to helping you preserve your existing IT investment, MQ/204 helps keep future spending under control. Because there is less need to convert enterprise applications to a homogeneous environment for the sake of communication, you could save literally millions of dollars that would otherwise be spent on new hardware, software, and application development. And since MQ/204 is implemented in User Language, you can leverage in-house programming expertise which saves even more time and money.

Maximize efficiency of Model 204 applications

MQ/204 provides a variety of tuning parameters that give you a high degree of control over application performance. It also makes efficient use of subtasks in multiprocessor environments, in order to maintain optimal performance of Model 204 applications. So not only is it the easiest way to take advantage of Websphere MQ from Model 204, it’s the best performer as well.

For More Information

For more information about MQ/204, contact your Account Representative or the CCA corporate office, or submit an Information Request Form.