WebSphere MQ for Operations Personnel

Objectives
On successful completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• describe WebSphere MQ messaging concepts
• describe and explain the concepts of Queue Managers, Queues, Message types and Message attributes
• explain the advantages and functionality of triggering.
• understand Distributed Queuing
• create, Start and Stop a Queue Manager
• use a variety of administrative interfaces on multiple platforms such as z/OS, Windows and UNIX
• use the sample programs to put, get and browse messages on a queue.

Who Should Attend
Operations personnel working in z/OS and/or distributed WebSphere MQ environments.
Prerequisites
A knowledge of one or more IT operations environments.
Duration
2 days

Course Code
MQSO
Contents
Basic Messaging Concepts
Islands of information; File transfer; Client/Server model; Client/Server program structure; MQ program structure; Basic messages and queues; Shared queues; The Queue Manager; Basic message structure; Asynchronous messaging; Synchronous messaging; Program to program communications; Parallel processing; Business objects; Meshed objects; Batch considerations; MQ driving batch; MQ client.


Queue Managers Queues & Messages
Queue managers communicate; Local queues; Alias queues; Dynamic and model queues; The message descriptor; Datagram message type; Request/Reply messages; Report messages - COA; Report messages - COD; Message priority; Message-id and correlation-id; Message retrieval by message or correlation id; Message persistence; Message persistence - logging; Logging - circular; Logging - linear; Message expiry; Message expiry usage; Message translation - encoding; Message translation - coded character set.


List of the MQI calls, Triggering & Syncpoints
The MQI layer; The MQI calls; Triggering - why?; Using triggering; Triggering - how it works; Trigger message contents; Syncpoint control; MQCMIT.


Distribution Lists Name Lists & Message Segmentati
Distribution lists; Distribution list usage; Name lists; Message grouping and segmentation.


MQ Distributed Queuing
Remote queues; Transmission queues; Message Channel Agents; MCA configuration; MCA security exit; MCA Secure Sockets Layer (SSL); MCA other exits; Channel types; Triggering channels; Dead letter queues; The MQI client and server channel; The server channel; MQ clustering; Cluster resilience; Cluster queue handling; Queue Sharing Groups; Section Overview, Introducing Queue Sharing Groups.


Configuration
Overview; Controlling queue managers; Creating queue managers - Distributed; Starting queue managers - Distributed; Stopping queue managers - Distributed; Deleting queue managers - Distributed; Controlling queue managers - z/OS; Creating queue managers - z/OS; Starting queue managers - z/OS; Stopping queue managers - z/OS; Deleting queue managers - z/OS; Administrative interfaces - Distributed; RUNMQSC - Distributed Interactive line mode; RUNMQSC - Distributed Using scripts; RUNMQSC - Distributed running our script; STRMQMADM; z/OS line mode commands via SDSF; z/OS - running our script; PCF commands; Practical session 1 - creating a new Windows queue manager; Administrative interfaces - z/OS; Section overview; CSQOREXX main panel; Object prompt (screens); QMGR display; Queue manager object; Queue display panel; Queue display; Qlocal display (screens); CSQUTIL administration program; CSQUTIL - The identical script used in runmqsc; CSQUTIL - using MAKEDEF; CSQUTIL - MAKEDEF output; WebSphere MQ object definition; Types of object; The queue manager object; The QLOCAL object; The QALIAS object; Basic sample programs - Distributed; AMQSxxx - sample programs; Basic sample programs -z/OS; MQPUT - z/OS; MQBROW - z/OS; MQGET - z/OS; Practical session 2 - managing WebSphere MQ objects.