Sending AMQP messages from an IBM Mainframe

Question

We are looking to put a mainframe on a bus. I believe it is AS400. To do this I want to have the CICS Mainframe send an AMQP message to a broker. There are dozens of AMQP Clients including JMS client. I don’t know enough about what is possible on a mainframe to say if I can use one of these client to send an AMQP message from the mainframe to a broker. Has anyone done this and if so any advise in doing this?

Answer 1

IBM i series (AS/400) are not mainframes. They are considered a midrange machine. The IBM z series are mainframes.

I regularly use Apache ActiveMQ on the IBM i. It has excellent Java support with the IBM JDK.

It is my understanding that the IBM z series also has excellent Java support.

IBM also offers Websphere MQ but I can't find any information on whether it supports the AMQP protocol.