IBM GC34-5557-00 manual Contents, Tables Welcome to MQSeries for AS/400, About MQSeries

Contents

Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Welcome to MQSeries for AS/400 . . . . ix

Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Chapter 1. About MQSeries	.	1
Message Queuing	.	1
MQI ± a Common Application
Programming Interface	.	1
Time-Independent Applications . . . .	. 2
Message-Driven Processing	.	2
Messages and Queues	.	2
What is a Message?	.	2
What is a Queue?	.	3
MQSeries Objects	.	3
Queue Managers	.	4
Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Process Definitions	.	5
Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Namelists . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Clients and Servers	.	6
Instrumentation Events	.	7
Types of Event	.	7
Transactional Support	.	8
Chapter 2. What's New in MQSeries for
AS/400, V5.1	.	9
Chapter 3. Planning to Install the MQSeries
for AS/400 Server	. 13
Hardware Requirements	. 13
Disk Space Required	.	13
Software Requirements	.	13
Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
AS/400 Install Libraries and Directories. .	.	14
AS/400 Library Structure	.	14
IFS Root File System	.	15
User Profiles	.	16
Compilers Supported for MQSeries for
AS/400, V5.1 Applications	.	16
Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
MQSeries for AS/400 Components . . .	. 16

Creating the System-Default Objects . . . 17

Chapter 4. Installing, Migrating to, and
Deleting MQSeries for AS/400 . . . .	.	19
Before Installation	.	19
Setting System Values	.	19
Installation Procedure	.	21
Installation of Translated Versions. . .	.	21
Reinstallation	.	21
Verifying the Installation	.	22
Post Installation Tasks	.	22
Quiescing MQSeries	.	23
Quiescing previous releases of MQSeries
for AS/400	.	23
Quiescing V5.1 of MQSeries for AS/400.	. 24
Migrating to MQSeries for AS/400, V5.1 .	. 24
What are the Differences	.	25
Overview of Migration Process. . . .	. 25
Before Migration	.	26
Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Verifying the Migration	.	29
After Migration	.	30
Deleting MQSeries for AS/400, V5.1 . . .	. 31
Standard Deletion	.	31
Entire Deletion	.	31

Chapter 5. Using MQSeries for AS/400,

V5.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Before you Start	.	33
Introducing Command Sets	. 33
CL Commands	.	34
MQSeries (MQSC) Commands . . . .	. 36
PCF Commands	. 37
Working with MQSeries	. 37
Creating a Queue Manager	. 37
Starting a Queue Manager	. 38
Creating a Local Queue	.	38
Sending a Test Message	.	41
Browsing Queues	.	41
Clearing a Local Queue	.	41
Deleting a Local Queue	.	41
Stopping a Queue Manager	. 41
Deleting a Queue Manager	. 42
Checking what Queue Managers you have
Running . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Other Things to Do	.	42
User Exits	.	43

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