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You can create MQ channels yourself,or a queue manager can join a cluster of queue managers where MQ channels are automatically created when they are needed.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/8331354) - “With over 10 years of experience working with MQ, I can confidently say that its greatest strength is its reliability and the guarantee of exactly-once message delivery.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11864410) - “IBM MQ has provided our business with a stable and resilient integration backbone, ensuring that transactions are never lost.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11726644) Source: [https://www.ibm.com/products/mq](https://www.ibm.com/products/mq) ## Claim: “IBM MQ keeps transactions accurate, systems in sync, and services running smoothly where reliability, security, and real-time coordination matter most.” Mixed support from reviews. Reviewers consistently report strong reliability, exactly-once delivery, and protection against lost transactions. However, some reviewers describe difficulties establishing secure connections and gaps in end-to-end message tracking, so the broader claim about security and smooth real-time coordination is mixed. - “IBM MQ has provided our business with a stable and resilient integration backbone, ensuring that transactions are never lost.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11726644) - “With over 10 years of experience working with MQ, I can confidently say that its greatest strength is its reliability and the guarantee of exactly-once message delivery.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11864410) - “One of the things where IBM MQ may fall short a bit , is implementing secure connections between MQ and clients or other MQ's , due to the limitations of TLS handshaking for a IBM MQ channel” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/12027308) - “I would prefer more enhancements on message tracking in order to facilitate investigation on cases where messages are lost, jeopardizing transactions integrity” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/10371337) Source: [https://www.ibm.com/products/mq](https://www.ibm.com/products/mq) ## Claim: “Deploy MQ wherever your applications and data reside, whether in public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises environments with advanced resilience features such as Native High Availability (HA) and Cross Region Replication (CRR) support business continuity with zero data loss and rapid failover.” Supported by reviews. Relevant reviewers consistently describe IBM MQ as resilient, capable of recovering from failures, supporting High Availability, preventing transaction loss, and operating across multiple platforms. The reviews support these resilience and deployment aspects, although they do not specifically mention Cross Region Replication or independently establish rapid failover timing. - “IBM MQ has provided our business with a stable and resilient integration backbone, ensuring that transactions are never lost.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11726644) - “The reliability, the possibility to recover from failures, the powerful queue-sharing feature for High Availability” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/8882904) - “Cloud Native HA is a very nice solution!” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11370056) Source: [https://www.ibm.com/products/mq](https://www.ibm.com/products/mq) ## Claim: “IBM MQ provides fault‑tolerant messaging with up‑to‑date inventory and machine status to keep orders on track.” Supported by reviews. Relevant reviewers consistently report high reliability, failure recovery, high availability, and protection against lost transactions, supporting the fault-tolerant messaging aspect of the claim. However, the reviews do not specifically establish up-to-date inventory or machine-status information. - “highly reliable — a robust backbone for asynchronous communication” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11828707) - “The reliability, the possibility to recover from failures, the powerful queue-sharing feature for High Availability” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/8882904) - “ensuring that transactions are never lost” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11726644) Source: [https://www.ibm.com/products/mq](https://www.ibm.com/products/mq) ## Claim: “Connect applications dynamically, securely and reliably across your messaging network, so your business can build message-driven and event-driven applications at scale.” Supported by reviews. Relevant reviewers report reliable, high-volume message processing, secure SSL/TLS messaging, and network channels that can be automatically created in clustered environments. One reviewer notes that establishing secure connections can require coordination because TLS handshaking is tricky, but this qualifies the implementation experience rather than contradicting the stated connectivity capabilities. - “What I like the most, is the system's reliability , performance and throughput strength for message processing and distribution between systems or components. Even when only using a single unit of work , it's performance is very consistent for medium to high volume of messages being processed and distributed.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/12027308) - “IBM MQ Channels are used to connect one queue manager to another over a network. You can create MQ channels yourself,or a queue manager can join a cluster of queue managers where MQ channels are automatically created when they are needed.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/8331354) - “One of the things where IBM MQ may fall short a bit , is implementing secure connections between MQ and clients or other MQ's , due to the limitations of TLS handshaking for a IBM MQ channel” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/12027308) Source: [https://www.ibm.com/products/mq](https://www.ibm.com/products/mq) ## Claim: “Coordinate across multiple resources and decouple applications using local messaging.” Supported by reviews. Relevant reviewers describe IBM MQ distributing messages between systems or components, supporting internal messaging, and connecting multiple queue managers through channels and clusters. - “What I like the most, is the system's reliability , performance and throughput strength for message processing and distribution between systems or components.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/12027308) - “Robust platform for internal messaging communication.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11740545) - “IBM MQ Channels are used to connect one queue manager to another over a network. You can create MQ channels yourself,or a queue manager can join a cluster of queue managers where MQ channels are automatically created when they are needed.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/8331354) Source: [https://www.ibm.com/products/mq](https://www.ibm.com/products/mq) ## Claim: “IBM MQ ensures assured delivery, connects systems, and provides complete data for fraud detection.” Supported by reviews. Relevant reviewers consistently report reliable or exactly-once delivery and describe IBM MQ connecting systems through channels and serving as an integration backbone. However, no reviewer specifically addresses whether it provides complete data for fraud detection. - “guarantee of exactly-once message delivery” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11864410) - “IBM MQ Channels are used to connect one queue manager to another over a network.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/8331354) - “IBM MQ has provided our business with a stable and resilient integration backbone, ensuring that transactions are never lost.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11726644) Source: [https://www.ibm.com/products/mq](https://www.ibm.com/products/mq) ## Claim: “Designed to never lose a message with secure, reliable, exactly-once message delivery across hybrid and multi-cloud environments” Mixed support from reviews. Several reviewers report exactly-once delivery, reliability, and transactions not being lost, while another describes cases where messages are lost and notes investigation challenges. The reviews do not meaningfully establish the full secure, hybrid- and multi-cloud scope of the claim. - “With over 10 years of experience working with MQ, I can confidently say that its greatest strength is its reliability and the guarantee of exactly-once message delivery.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11864410) - “Guarantees exactly-once message delivery” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11370056) - “IBM MQ has provided our business with a stable and resilient integration backbone, ensuring that transactions are never lost.” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/11726644) - “message tracking in order to facilitate investigation on cases where messages are lost, jeopardizing transactions integrity” [Read Full Review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews/10371337) Source: [https://www.ibm.com/products/mq](https://www.ibm.com/products/mq)