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WebSphere MQ Free / Shareware Tools Index
Message Editors / Browsers Message Management
MQ Administration MQ Monitoring
MQ File Transfer / Soap MQ Log Handling
MQ Backup  

Message Editors / Browsers

URL Date / Version Description
Go v1.4.1 MQ Visual Edit application allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally 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: $99.00 USD. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.4.1 MQ Visual Browse application allows users to view messages in a queue of a WebSphere 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: $29.00 USD. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go v1.2.3 MQ Batch Toolkit application allows users to manipulate and manage messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ queue manager from a command-line or shell scripting environment. Versions: 30-day free trial and commercial release: $99.00 USD. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go 28Sep05 IH03: WebSphere Message Broker V6 - Message display, test and performance utility contains utilities that are useful for the development and testing of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker Version 6 applications. (Also known as: rfhutil) Author: Jim McNair of IBM
Go 28Jan98 MO60: MQSeries for AIX - Message browser provides a convenient graphical interface for viewing and manipulating messages on MQ queues. Author: Chris Markes of IBM
Go v1.12 Hermes JMS is a Swing application that allows you to interact with JMS providers. Hermes will work with any JMS enabled transport making it easy to browse or seach queues and topics, copy messages around and delete them. Author: Colin Crist
Go v1.01 JMQBrowser is a graphical tool to browse objects and messages. Versions: Lite and commercial release.
Go v1.0 MQMessager is a tool to get and put messages to a queue.

Message Management

URL Date / Version Description
Go v1.2.3 MQ Batch Toolkit application allows users to manipulate and manage messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ queue manager from a command-line or shell scripting environment. Versions: 30-day free trial and commercial release: $99.00 USD. Author: Capitalware Inc.
Go 24Nov05 MA01: WebSphere MQ - Q Program contains a simple pipe line program (Q) which takes messages from one source and outputs to a target. Author: Paul Clarke of IBM
Go 06Feb02 MA0J: MQSeries - Put message utility provides a simple and convenient method for MQSeries V5.1 users to put messages to a queue. Author: Annette Green of IBM
Go 21Jun06 MA0T: WebSphere MQ - Message Test Utility is a command line based program that provides the ability to execute scripts that simulate the flow of messages between applications that use IBM Websphere MQ (WMQ). Author: Tim Armstrong
Go 11Apr05 MO03: WebSphere MQ Queue Load/Unload Utility provides a simple command line application for loading and unloading messages off queues. Author: Paul Clarke of IBM

MQ Administration

URL Date / Version Description
Go v1.0.2 MisterQ Explorer is a lightweight MQ administration tool for IBM WebSphere MQ queues, channels and messages. It is developed as a plugin for the Eclipse platform. Author: Christian Märkle
Go 21Apr06 MO71: WebSphere MQ for Windows - GUI Administrator provides a simple, easy to configure GUI interface to administer WebSphere MQ (MQSeries) 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 IBM
Go 13Jul05 MO72: MQSC Client for WebSphere MQ is a command line tool for issuing MQSC commands to a queue manager. Author: Paul Clarke of IBM
download file 18Aug02 MQJExplorer is a graphical management tool for MQSeries. It is modeled after the MQExplorer Microsoft Management Console plug-in supplied with MQSeries for Windows NT/2000. Unlike MQExplorer, MQJExplorer is implemented in 100% pure java. As such, it will execute on a wider variety of platforms than MQExplorer. There is no formal support for this tool. Author: Neil Kolban of IBM
Go 27Sep05 MA6O: WebSphere MQ - UNIX Administration Tool is a shell program which makes use of the original IBM utilities for administering MQ, while offering enhanced reliability, power and ease of use. Author: Dr. Johannes Bohm of Business Solution Group

MQ Monitoring

URL Date / Version Description
Go v1.0.22 NetFlexity 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 30Nov05 MO01: Event and Dead Letter Queue Monitor is the MQSeries Event queue monitor, Dead Letter queue monitor and Expired message remover for Windows, Java, OS/2 and AIX. Author: Sam Garforth of SJG Consulting Ltd
Go 17May04 MO70: MQSeries for Windows NT - Display channel statistics provides an interface to the Windows NT Performance Monitor to allow MCA channel statistics to be displayed. Author: Robert Meli of IBM Tivoli
Go 06Oct04 MS0H: WebSphere MQ - Queue depth monitoring tool provides a Windows based utility that shows queue depths and generates test messages from a source file or source queue. Author: Francois van der Merwe of IBM
Go 07Mar03 MS0K: WebSphere MQ - Events Monitor Tool monitors the queue managers, using events. Author: Sanjeev. S of IBM
Go 05Nov04 MS71: WebSphere MQ for Windows 2000 - Deadletter queue monitor acts as a deadletter queue monitor. It browses the deadletter queue and pops-up a window if anything appears on it. Author: Arjan Van Vught of IBM

MQ File Transfer / Soap

URL Date / Version Description
21Oct03 MA0M: MQSeries - SPAZIO XSP Base is a basic file transfer over IBM WebSphere MQ. Versions: free and commercially supported releases. Author: Primeur
Go 07Aug03 MA0P: WebSphere MQ FTP client provides a basic FTP client for WebSphere MQ. Author: Arjan van Vught of IBM
Go 20Oct03 MA0R: WebSphere MQ - Transport for SOAP provides the ability to flow a SOAP message over a WebSphere MQ transport. Author: Jerry Stevens of IBM
Go 06Dec05 MA0V: Asynchronous support in WebSphere MQ transport for SOAP provides support for asynchronous invocation of WebServices over WebSphere MQ. It also supports transactional handling of messages by the WebServices client. Author: Jitu Patel of IBM

MQ Log Handling

URL Date / Version Description
Go 09Jun06 MO73: WebSphere MQ Linear Log Clean-up Utility is a linear log clean up utility for the Windows platform. Author: Rao Adiraju of Distributed Systems Consultants Pty Ltd
Go 22Aug03 MS0L: MQSeries - Linear Logfile Maintenance in Java & Korn Shell provides a Java based utility for performing Linear Logfile Maintenance on either UNIX or Windows Servers. Author: Tim Von Niessen of IBM Canada
Go 12Jun06 MS62: MQSeries - Linear log clean-up script provides a Perl script that can be used to either compress, gzip or delete linear logfiles that are no longer needed by MQSeries. Author: Shelden & Associates Inc
Go 22Mar04 MS67: MQSeries - Linear Log Manager provides a Korn shell utility for managing MQSeries Linear Logs. Author: David De Seve of Marriott International Inc

MQ Backup

URL Date / Version Description
Go 14Mar06 MS03: WebSphere MQ save Queue Manager object definitions using PCFs interrogates the attributes of all the objects defined to a queue manager (either local or remote) and saves them to a file. Author: Wayne Schutz of IBM
Go 07Sep98 MS63: MQSeries - Save authorities script provides a Korn Shell script that saves the current authorities of queue managers, queues and processes them to a file.
Go 19Mar04 MS65: MQSeries - Configuration back-up script The script will determine ALL Queue Managers on the executing server, determine which ones are active and backup their configurations. It requires SupportPac MS03 be installed.
Go 22Apr04 MS68: MQSeries - MQAUTH Converter provides mqauth which converts the output of the amqoamd command into setmqaut statements. Author: David De Seve of Marriott International