Concepts

Businesses are increasingly becoming aware of the advantages of establishing an intranet or of connecting processors to a LAN. You might also have connected some z/OS processors to form a sysplex, or some AIX(R) processors in the form of an SP2(R). Processors linked in these ways benefit from support from each other and have access to a far wider range of programs and data.

In the same way, WebSphere MQ queue managers can be connected to form a cluster. This facility is available to queue managers on the following platforms:

You can connect the queue managers using any of the communications protocols that are available on your platform. That is, TCP or LU 6.2 on any platform, NetBIOS or SPX on Windows. Connections on more than one protocol can exist within a cluster. Of course, if you try to make a connection to a queue manager using a protocol that it does not support, the channel will not become active.