IBM GC34-5557-00 manual Quiescing MQSeries Quiescing V5.1 of MQSeries for AS/400

Quiescing MQSeries

Quiescing V5.1 of MQSeries for AS/400

To quiesce MQSeries for AS/400, V5.1:

1.Use F12 (Cancel) to return to your initial MENU

Note: If you have MQSeries Commands (CMDMQM) as your initial menu, change the initial menu in your user profile, sign off and sign back on.

2.Ensure that you have:

v *ALLOBJ authority, or object management authority for the QMQM library.

v*USE authority for the following programs:

±QMQM/AMQIQES4

±QMQM/AMQIQEM4

±QMQM/AMQSTOP4

±QMQM/AMQSPECA

3.Warn all users that you are going to stop MQSeries for AS/400.

4.Warn users not to start Message Queue Interface applications while MQSeries for AS/400 is being quiesced. To ensure that they cannot start, you should revoke users' authorities to MQSeries for AS/400 by issuing the RVKMQMAUT command.

5.Quiesce all queue managers by running program AMQSTOP4:

CALL QMQM/AMQSTOP4 PARM(*ALL *CNTRLD 15) where 15 is a time-out value in seconds.

6.If this fails, you can force queue managers to stop by issuing:

CALL QMQM/AMQSTOP4 PARM(*ALL *FORCE 15)

7.End the MQSeries subsystem, by entering:

ENDSBS SBS(QMQM/QMQM)

Migrating to MQSeries for AS/400, V5.1

You can migrate to MQSeries for AS/400, V5.1 from MQSeries for AS/400 V3R7, MQSeries for AS/400 V4R2, or MQSeries for AS/400 V4R2M1.

You must pay particular attention when migrating to MQSeries for AS/400, V5.1. The product has been altered and enhanced significantly since previous releases.

This section outlines the steps involved in migrating to MQSeries for AS/400, V5.1 from an earlier release. You may find additional, important information that became available after publication of this book if you refer to the readme file on the publications CD-ROM, or to the MQSeries family Web site at:

http://www.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries/

24MQSeries for AS/400, V5.1 Quick Beginnings