A free and pure Java GUI application is an excellent replacement for MQ Explorer for administering all versions of IBM Websphere MQ which are in support. In particular this includes the z/OS platform. It provides extra features that include message edit, analyse, backup/restore, queue purge, queue and channel status monitoring, output object properties to csv and much more....
This open source application is written in Java 1.8 and using NetBeans IDE 8.2.
Currently using IBM MQ client lib 8.0...