Editing IBM MQ (section)

{{Short description|Family of message-oriented middleware products}}
'''IBM MQ''' is a family of [[message-oriented middleware]] products that [[IBM]] launched in December 1993. It was originally called '''MQSeries''', and was renamed ''WebSphere MQ'' in 2002 to join the suite of [[IBM WebSphere|WebSphere]] products. In April 2014, it was renamed ''IBM MQ''. The products that are included in the MQ family are IBM MQ, IBM MQ Advanced, IBM MQ Appliance, IBM MQ for z/OS, and IBM MQ on IBM Cloud. IBM MQ also has containerised deployment options.

MQ allows independent and potentially non-concurrent applications on a [[distributed computing|distributed system]] to securely communicate with each other, using messages. MQ is available on a large number of platforms (both IBM and non-IBM), including [[z/OS]] ([[Mainframe computer|mainframe]]), [[IBM i]], [[Transaction Processing Facility]], [[UNIX]] ([[IBM AIX|AIX]], [[HP-UX]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]]), HP [[NonStop (server computers)|NonStop]], [[OpenVMS]], [[Linux]], and [[Microsoft Windows]].