WebSphere MQ for z/OS is a flexible foundation for your enterprise service bus.

It delivers enhancements to further increase availability by reducing constraints and enabling more configuration changes to be made on the fly.

Provides integrated support for Web services, enabling SOAP requests to flow over the reliable WebSphere MQ backbone helping integrate J2EE, CICS and .NET applications
Interoperates seamlessly with the messaging resources of WebSphere Application Server V6.0, to form the proven basis for your enterprise service bus (ESB)
Provides full support for the WebSphere MQ API (MQI) and the Java-based messaging standard API V1.1
Enables moving existing FTP infrastructure forward, ensuring reliable, secure file transfer over WebSphere MQ, workload balancing and communication failover with clustering support.