IBM WebSphere MQ (formerly MQ Series) is rapidly being adopted by iSeries organisations across the world. The technology enables applications on multiple platforms to send and receive messages via an MQ data queue - as long as one of the applications is on a platform compatible with WebSphere MQ (there are over 35 of them, including all IBM and Microsoft platforms). Now, companies that run WebSphere MQ on an iSeries can include MQ messages among the data captured during a test run.

Original Software has added a new module, TestMQ, to its flagship product, TestBench for iSeries. The development of the module is the result of a five-month collaboration between product developers at Original Software and technical staff at IBM’s Rochester headquarters.

TestMQ makes innovative use of IBM’s Crossing Point APIs to enable TestBench to track, capture and analyse MQ messages that are sent and received by iSeries-based application programs. TestMQ can also record every time a commitment boundary is reached or cancelled. Each such event is fully logged with all its parameters, plus audit information that would not other wise be available such as the program that executed the WebSphere MQ function.

TestBench for iSeries is already the most powerful and widely used automated testing solution available for the IBM iSeries, capturing and tracking all PC and server activity related to an application under test, plus automated data extraction and maintenance, environment protection, central script and results storage and much more – including, of course, thorough testing of any PC application that runs on an iSeries. Support for WebSphere MQ in TestMQ enables TestBench to build an even more detailed picture of an iSeries application under test.

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