IBM delivers additional network computing capabilities; Award-winning IBM MQSeries links to leading database software

Business Wire, March 13, 1997

SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 1997--IBM is delivering links from its award-winning MQSeries(a) connectivity software to leading database software products. Users will be able to more easily manage higher volumes of transactions and, for the first time, be able to handle complicated searches on the information contained in those transactions.

For example, a company handling transactions, such as orders received, can more easily manage higher volumes. This is because transactions can be stacked in a queue -- during peak periods for processing later, or if there is an interruption somewhere in the system. MQSeries provides assured delivery for those transactions regardless of interruptions. Since the transactions are stored in the database software, information can be searched with sophisticated database technology. The company can search and sort the information most any way to more effectively manage inventory or its marketing efforts.

IBM is working with leading database suppliers to develop the links to its MQSeries. The links from MQSeries to databases mean that users can also take advantage of the vast storage capabilities of database products, which can span multiple systems. In addition, once stored in a database, the transactions are protected by the same sophisticated data loss/recovery function that exists in their database software.

"IBM will deliver links from MQSeries to our own leading DB2(a) database software, and we're also working with the other database suppliers to deliver this function," said Alfred Z. Spector, general manager of IBM Transaction Processing Systems. "IBM will continue to grow MQSeries as the leading technology for messaging with this important new capability."

MQSeries has received awards from Byte and Network Computing magazines. The software, available on more than 20 operating systems, provides assured connectivity for information and applications that operate across a network. MQSeries software development is done by IBM's development laboratory at Hursley in the United Kingdom.

"Database and messaging technologies go together like peanut butter and jelly," said Janet Perna, general manager of IBM database management. "Together they provide, for the first time, the ability to handle complicated searches on transactions, along with the vast storage capabilities of DB2, and the new DB2 Universal Database."

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