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Message Editors / Message Management MQ Administration & Monitoring
MQ Message Tracking & Controlling MQ Security
MQ Auditing & Reporting MQ Debugging & Testing
MQ File Transfer MQ Log Handling
MQ Framework  

Message Editors / Message Management

URL Date / Version Description
Go v3.2.0 Blue Diamond MQ Visual Edit Blue Diamond application allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ, MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility or spreadsheet program. Versions: 30-day free trial and commercial release. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v3.2.0 MQ Visual Browse application allows users to view messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility or spreadsheet program. Versions: 30-day free trial and commercial release. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v3.2.2 MQ Batch Toolkit application allows users to manipulate and manage messages in a queue of an IBM MQ queue manager from a command-line or shell scripting environment. Versions: 30-day free trial and commercial release. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go 9.1.0 MQEdit is a Windows based graphical live parsing editor for IBM MQ Messages. Use MQEdit to correct messages; create new messages for use when developing new applications, or testing them out; move or copy messages easily with a simple drag and drop with your mouse. Author: Paul Clarke of MQGem Software Limited
Go 9.1.1 QLOAD is the follow on product to the original MO03 SupportPac, written and supported by the same person. QLOAD now contains many additional features requested by it's users. QLOAD will to move or copy messages between multiple queues and/or multiple files. Selection criteria such as message age, position, size, content and many more can be specified. Author: Paul Clarke of MQGem Software Limited
Go v2.0 Tivoli Editor for Messages on Distributed Systems is a browser-based message editing tool for the IBM MQ development and testing environment. Author: IBM Tivoli
Go v1.0 Tivoli Editor for Messages on z/OS is a browser-based message editing tool for the IBM MQ development and testing environment. Author: IBM Tivoli
Go v2.1.0 ISPF MQ Message Editor for z/OS application allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue of an IBM MQ for z/OS queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility or spreadsheet program. Author: Salem Software

MQ Administration & Monitoring

URL Date / Version Description
Go   AppWatch is a browser-based IBM MQ administration solution that provides secure, centralized, project-based IBM MQ management. Author: BMC
Go   AutoPilot/MQ provides end-to-end application process monitoring so you can see the current status of all your MQ-application transactions on-demand. Author: meshIQ
Go   Navigator is a Web-based administration and control of Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, IBM IIB/ACE, Solace PubSub+, and Tibco EMS from a single GUI. Accelerate deployment and migration of your middleware environment. Dramatically reduce the operational risk of delivering a multi-cloud digital strategy with automated audited deployment, migration, and secure DevOps self-service with total lifecycle management integrated into DevOps tooling. Accelerate troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and remediation. Securely manage multiple middlewares at scale on multiple servers on multiple clouds and on-premises. Author: meshIQ
Go v4.3 BMC® MAINVIEW® for IBM MQ product provides an out-of-the-box solution that easily integrates into the IBM MQ environment to ensure IBM MQ health and availability. From a single console, MAINVIEW for IBM MQ offers complete control over IBM MQ configuration, administration, performance monitoring, broker monitoring, and automation. MAINVIEW for Websphere MQ helps the operations staff access queue managers, queues, channels, name lists and clusters. Users can easily obtain detailed and comprehensive information from the mainframe MQ environment. MAINVIEW is equipped with automated, out-of-the-box solutions for common errors, comprehensive search and selection capabilities for automatic message routing, broad filtering and event management capabilities, and full support for IBM MQ clusters. Author: BMC
Go 9.2.0 MQEV is a program which will process the IBM® MQ Event messages produced by your Queue Managers, and also the PCF based Accounting and Statistics messages produced by your distributed platform Queue Managers. It can receive these messages, store them, and allow you to search, filter, aggregate, and choose how long to retain the information within the messages. Author: Paul Clarke of MQGem Software Limited
Go   Foglight for IBM MQ is monitoring solution for the distributed IBM MQ infrastructure. This solution allows you to better control the delivery of services by alerting you to messaging infrastructure problems before end users are affected. This helps you to ensure consistent application performance at established service levels. Author: Quest Software, Inc.
Go   Infrared360 is J2EE compliant, agentless technology for the IBM Websphere MQ family of products. Infrared360 enables organizations to better manage their Websphere MQ infrastructure without the need to deploy labor intensive agent software. Infrared360 allows users to provide remote administration, real-time monitoring, infrastructure message testing, scheduling, and reporting. Author: Avada Software LLC
Go 9.2.1 MO71: IBM MQ for Windows - GUI Administrator provides a simple, easy to configure GUI interface to administer IBM MQ queue managers. It consists of a single program which sends PCF or MQSC messages to a local or remote Queue Manager and displays the output from the command server in dialogs. All Queue Managers that have a command server can be administered, including z/OS. Author: Paul Clarke of MQGem Software Limited
Go 9.2.0 Extended MQSC (MQSCX) is a program which performs a similar function to the RUNMQSC program but improves on its usability, particularly when used in interactive mode. Many of the frustrating elements of RUNMQSC have been removed and entering MQSC commands is made faster, easier and less error prone. Author: Paul Clarke of MQGem Software Limited
Go v1.2.0 MQ Channel Monitor is a software package that is designed to gather and to display the status of MQ channels of the queue manager. MQCM displays 16 columns of channel status information. The display is automatically refreshed. The user can define filters so that only particular channels will have their status displayed. Source code included. Freeware. Author: Roger Lacroix.
Go   OMEGAMON XE for Messaging for Distributed Systems helps improve the availability and performance of business-critical applications and business integration systems. Author: IBM Tivoli
Go   OMEGAMON XE for IBM MQ on z/OS a powerful systems management tool set for monitoring and configuring IBM MQ. Author: IBM Tivoli
Go   OMEGAMON XE for Messaging for z/OS helps improve the availability and performance of business-critical applications and business integration systems. Author: IBM Tivoli
Go   Performance Manager for IBM MQ (aka PATROL for IBM MQ) provides comprehensive support to quickly and effectively configure, maintain and manage your enterprise IBM MQ environment including your mainframe. Author: BMC
Go   Q Pasa! real-time middleware monitoring is a fully integrated solution for the entire IBM WebSphere family. Author: BMC
Go v4.5.4 QFlex is a middleware management product that allows end users to have better visibility over their middleware infrastructure. It enables companies to track performance, detect problems and troubleshoot messaging environments that utilize IBM Middleware technologies. Versions: free and commercially supported releases. Author: NetFlexity
Go   Racon is a cost-effective advanced monitoring tool for integration technologies – IBM Websphere MQ, Message Broker etc. Key features: rich web GUI with dashboards and charts, alerts, automation, HA, security roles, open interfaces. Customers include large banks and others. Author: Trask
Go   Sentra MQ provides a collaborative, team-based approach to infrastructure management: middleware specialists,database administrators and applications developers can each be provided with tailored views of their respective areas of interest, and can work together to resolve issues and maximize business process performance. Author: Insider Technologies Ltd
Go   Square Bubble is a product suite aimed at Integration Monitoring and Governance. It is a solution for monitoring IBM Integration products, including IIB (WMB), MQ, and DataPower. It is an agent that harvests data from running services and a set of dashboards that can be used to quickly pin point performance and other bottlenecks. The product is highly configurable to tailor the data volumes being generated and can be customised to provide more focused viewpoints. It integrates with enterprise logging solutions such as splunk and elastic. Author: Syntegrity Innovations
Go   Unicenter CA-SYSVIEW Realtime Performance Management Option for MQSeries gives you the status of queue managers, queues, channels, and messages processing across queue managers on the mainframe. Author: CA
Go r3.6 Unicenter Management for IBM MQ provides monitoring and management of the configuration, administration, automation and performance for the IBM MQ network to deliver improved enterprise application availability and performance. Author: CA
Go   MQ Monitor for OpenView Transaction Analyzer (OVTA) extends the transaction performance management capabilities of OVTA to the entire IBM WebSphere middleware environment. Author: meshIQ
Go   MQ SPI Plug-in gives you control and visibility of your IBM MQ environment from Your Existing HP Console. Author: meshIQ
Go v9.1 WMQTool is a graphical tool designed to work with Websphere MQ. It can administer and monitor all MQ objects in your network. It requires Java 8 or higher. Versions: 30-day free trial and commercial release: $499.00 USD. Author: Atul

MQ Message Tracking & Controlling

URL Date / Version Description
Go v3.2.0 MQ Auditor is a solution that allows a company to audit / track all MQ API calls performed by MQ applications that are connected to a queue manager. The API Exit operates with IBM MQ v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, Unix, IBM i and Linux environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.2.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector is a solution that allows a company to track and/or audit what information a client application or remote queue manager is exchanging with the local queue manager when a connection is made. MQCCI is comprised of an MQ Channel Security Exit. A channel security exit is ONLY invoked/called by the queue manager's MCA (Message Channel Agent) for MQCONN/X and MQDISC API calls (so it is very light-weight). The channel security exit operates with IBM MQ v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, Unix, IBM i and Linux environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.2.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector for z/OS is a solution that allows a company to track and/or audit what information a client application or remote queue manager is exchanging with the local queue manager when a connection is made. z/MQCCI is comprised of an MQ Channel Security Exit. A channel security exit is ONLY invoked/called by the queue manager's MCA (Message Channel Agent) for MQCONN/X and MQDISC API calls (so it is very light-weight). The channel security exit will operate with IBM MQ in z/OS v1.4 or higher environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.3.0 MQ Channel Throttler provides the ability to control/throttle the number of connection calls, open calls and/or messages (or bytes) that flow over a channel. MQCT operates with IBM MQ (MQ) v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, Unix, IBM i (OS/400) and Linux environments. It operates with Sender, Receiver, Server, Requestor, Cluster-Sender, Cluster-Receiver and Server Connection channels of the MQ queue managers. The pricing of Capitalware's MQCT solution is on a 'per queue manager' basis. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v2.2.0 MQ Message Replication will clone messages being written (via MQPUT or MQPUT1 API calls) to a source queue and MQMR will write the exact same messages to 'n' target queues ('n' can be up to 100). When MQMR clones a message both the message data and the message's MQMD structure will be cloned. This means that the fields of the MQMD structure (i.e. PutTime, MessageId, CorrelId, UserId, etc..) will be exactly the same as the original message's MQMD structure. The API Exit operates with IBM MQ v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, Unix, IBM i and Linux environments. The pricing of Capitalware's MQMR solution is on a 'per queue manager' basis. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go   AutoPilot/Transaction Monitor automatically performs all of the tasks required for complete message flow management. AutoPilot/TM monitors, records, and tracks the messages that fuel and drive your application transactions as they are transmitted across integrated networks. Author: meshIQ
Go   CeQuest for IBM MQ utilizes the MQ Crossing Exit API facility to collect message related information, analyze the collected data in real time and provide real-time displays of user requested message tracking, auditing and diagnostic reports. Author: Cressida
Go   Q Nami! provides end-to-end business transaction assurance, giving enterprise users real-time visibility and control over their critical business processes, services and associated technologies. Author: BMC
Go   TransactionVision provides Business Process Monitoring that dramatically increases visibility into your customer facing transactions. Just as you would track overnight packages from origination to delivery, TransactionVision tracks customer transactions throughout their entire lifecycle. Author: HP

MQ Security

URL Date / Version Description
Go v3.5.0 Blue Diamond MQ Authenticate User Security Exit Blue Diamond (MQAUSX) is a solution that allows a company to fully authenticate a user who is accessing an IBM MQ resource. It authenticates the user's UserID and Password (and possibly Domain Name) against the server's native OS system, LDAP server, Microsoft's Active Directory, Quest Authentication Services, Centrify's DirectControl or an encrypted MQAUSX FBA file. The security exit will operate with IBM MQ in Windows, IBM i (OS/400), Unix and Linux environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v3.5.0 Blue Diamond MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS Blue Diamond (z/MQAUSX) is a solution that allows a company to fully authenticate a user who is accessing an IBM MQ resource. It authenticates the user's UserID and Password against the server's native z/OS system or using File Based Authentication. The security exit will operate with IBM MQ in z/OS v1.4 or higher environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.0.6 MQ Channel Auto Creation Manager (MQCACM) is an MQ Channel Auto-Definition (MQ CHAD) exit that allows a company to control and restrict incoming connection requests to auto-create a channel. MQCACM is invoked when a request is received to start an undefined Receiver, Server-Connection, Cluster-Receiver or Cluster-Sender channel. MQCACM can modify or clear the supplied default channel definition values for an instance of the channel, so that there is no exit incompatibility (cross-platform or otherwise). MQCACM will operate with IBM MQ v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, Unix, IBM i and Linux environments. 'Licensed as Free'. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.0.6 MQ Channel Auto Creation Manager for z/OS (z/MQCACM) is an MQ Channel Auto-Definition (MQ CHAD) exit that allows a company to control and restrict incoming connection requests to auto-create a channel. MQCACM is invoked when a request is received to start an undefined Receiver, Server-Connection, Cluster-Receiver or Cluster-Sender channel. MQCACM can modify or clear the supplied default channel definition values for an instance of the channel, so that there is no exit incompatibility (cross-platform or otherwise). z/MQCACM will operate with IBM MQ v7.1, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 for z/OS environments. 'Licensed as Free'. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v3.4.0 MQ Channel Encryption (MQCE) is a solution that provides encryption for MQ message data. MQCE is a solution that allows a company to encrypt message data, which flows between IBM MQ (MQ) resources. MQCE operates with IBM MQ v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, IBM i (OS/400), Unix and Linux environments. It operates with Sender, Receiver, Server, Requester, Server Connection and Client Connection channels of the MQ queue managers. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v3.4.0 MQ Channel Encryption for z/OS (z/MQCE) is a solution that provides encryption for MQ message data. z/MQCE is a solution that allows a company to encrypt message data, which flows between IBM MQ (MQ) resources. MQCE operates with IBM MQ v7.1, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in z/OS v1.4 or higher environments. It operates with Sender, Receiver, Server, Requester, Server Connection and Client Connection channels of the MQ queue managers. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go   Blue Diamond MQ Enterprise Security Suite Blue Diamond (MQESS) is a solution that provides authentication and data protection (Channels and Queues) for IBM MQ. MQESS operates with MQ v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, IBM i (OS/400), Unix and Linux environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v4.2.0 MQ Message Encryption (MQME) is a solution that provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). MQME operates with MQ v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, IBM i (OS/400), Unix and Linux environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.0.5 MQ Set UserID (MQSUI) is a solution that allows a company the ability to explicitly set a UserID via a MQ Channel's Send, Receive or Message Exit. The exit will operate with IBM MQ in Windows, IBM i (OS/400), Unix and Linux environments. 'Licensed as Free'. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.0.5 MQ Set UserID for z/OS (z/MQSUI) is a solution that allows a company the ability to explicitly set a UserID via a MQ Channel's Send, Receive or Message Exit. The exit will operate with IBM MQ in z/OS v1.4 or higher environments. 'Licensed as Free'. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.0.5 Client-side Security Exit for Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (SX4DTC2) is a solution that allows a company to perform verification with a Depository Trust Clearing Corporation queue manager. The security exit will operate with IBM MQ in Windows, IBM i (OS/400), Unix and Linux environments. 'Licensed as Free'. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.0.5 Client-side Security Exit for Depository Trust Clearing Corporation for z/OS (z/SX4DTC2) is a solution that allows a company to perform verification with a Depository Trust Clearing Corporation queue manager. The security exit will operate with IBM MQ in z/OS v1.4 or higher environments. 'Licensed as Free'. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go   SPAZIO Data Secure Toolkit is an API Toolkit for developing secure applications, including all the necessary PKI elements. It provides functions for cryptographic and certificate-related operations on S/MIME and PKCS#7 objects and for accessing the Certificate Database. Author: Primeur
Go   SPAZIO DATA Secure for MQ is a product provides cryptographic protection for MQ Servers. The protection is End to End and Link. Messages may be encrypted and/or digitally signed, thus providing privacy, proof of origin and data authentication. Compression is also provided. Author: Primeur

MQ Auditing & Reporting

URL Date / Version Description
Go v3.2.0 MQ Auditor is a solution that allows a company to audit / track all MQ API calls performed by MQ applications that are connected to a queue manager. The API Exit operates with IBM MQ v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, Unix, IBM i and Linux environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.2.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector is a solution that allows a company to track and/or audit what information a client application or remote queue manager is exchanging with the local queue manager when a connection is made. MQCCI is comprised of an MQ Channel Security Exit. A channel security exit is ONLY invoked/called by the queue manager's MCA (Message Channel Agent) for MQCONN/X and MQDISC API calls (so it is very light-weight). The channel security exit operates with IBM MQ v7.1, v7.5, v8.0, v9.0, v9.1, v9.2 and v9.3 in Windows, Unix, IBM i and Linux environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.2.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector for z/OS is a solution that allows a company to track and/or audit what information a client application or remote queue manager is exchanging with the local queue manager when a connection is made. z/MQCCI is comprised of an MQ Channel Security Exit. A channel security exit is ONLY invoked/called by the queue manager's MCA (Message Channel Agent) for MQCONN/X and MQDISC API calls (so it is very light-weight). The channel security exit will operate with IBM MQ in z/OS v1.4 or higher environments. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.0 MQDocument generates quality (on-line) IBM MQ configuration documentation to be used by users, administrators, auditors, diaster recovery personnel or MQ management. Versions: 30-day free trial and commercial releases. Author: MQSystems.
Go   StatWatch is a browser-based IBM MQ specific message analysis solution providing immediate access to reports on message delivery and IBM MQ resource usage. Author: MQSoftware

MQ Debugging & Testing

URL Date / Version Description
Go v3.2.0 Blue Diamond MQ Visual Edit Blue Diamond application allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ, MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility or spreadsheet program. Versions: 30-day free trial and commercial release. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v3.2.2 MQ Batch Toolkit application allows users to manipulate and manage messages in a queue of an IBM MQ queue manager from a command-line or shell scripting environment. Versions: 30-day free trial and commercial release. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v2.2 Abend-AID for IBM MQ helps developers meet that challenge. With Abend-AID for IBM MQ, developers can respond to and resolve IBM MQ failures in test and production to produce reliable applications that perform as intended, when they’re needed. Author: Compuware
Go v8.0 LoadRunner is an industrial-strength stress-testing tool. LoadRunner emulates hundreds or thousands of concurrent users to put the application through the rigors of real-life user loads for virtually any client platform or environment. You can stress an application from end-to-end across all architectural tiers — applying consistent, measurable, and repeatable loads — then use the data to identify scalability issues before they impact end users. Author: Mercury
Go v3.8.0 Traffic Parrot is a mocking tool. It supports both native and JMS IBM MQ APIs. Software development and QA teams use Traffic Parrot to test applications faster and with lower costs. Author: WB Software Consultancy Limited.

MQ File Transfer

URL Date / Version Description
Go v2.0.0 Blue Diamond Universal File Mover Blue Diamond is a managed file transfer solution that facilitates the transfer of files using FTP, HTTP, SCP, SFTP and IBM MQ. UFM processes "Action" commands which are controlled through an UFM Workflow XML file. The user combines a series of Action commands to create the UFM Workflow XML file. Source code included. Freeware. Author: Roger Lacroix.
Go   PM4Data provides all the facilities required to access and transfer files, data, and databases across all popular computing platforms. Author: CommerceQuest
Go   SPAZIO FTFI for MQ is the solution that Primeur based on the experience of SPAZIO FTFI, adapting it to the needs of companies who have to exchange files within their boundaries using the IBM MQ network and with the outside world via Internet. Author: Primeur
Go v7.0.1 IBM MQ File Transfer Edition provides a reliable, managed file transfer solution for moving files - regardless of size - between IT systems. It enables files and documents to be transferred across a dual purpose backbone that also handles messages. Author: IBM

MQ Framework

URL Date / Version Description
Go   DataFlow Studio provides one-to-any application integration for the enterprise. Built to capitalize on middleware messaging and broker technologies, it delivers rapid incremental benefits based on incremental investments while minimizing business process interruption. Author: MQSoftware

MQ Log Handling

URL Date / Version Description
Go   ReQuest for IBM MQ offers a set of unique functionality to enable extensive MQ Reporting, Recovery and Replay functions for IBM MQ Logs across multiple queue managers on multiple platforms. Author: Cressida