Course Overview
This course provides technical professionals with the skills that are needed to administer IBM MQ queue managers on distributed operating systems & practical experience with tasks such as handling queue recovery, implementing security, and problem determination.
Target Audience
This course is designed for application developers and architects who are responsible for the development and design of IBM MQ applications
Course Prerequisites
Successful completion of Technical Introduction to IBM MQ (WM103G ), or comparable experience with IBM MQ
Experience in business application design
Experience in C language development
Course Outline
Day 1
A review of IBM WebSphere MQ
Describe the functions and facilities of WebSphere MQ
Installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere MQ on Windows
Various options associated with stopping queue manager
Various options associated with starting queue manager
Understanding the various MQ processes associated with a queue manager and its purpose and functionality
Using MQSC commands to administer IBM WebSphere MQ
Exercise: Working with queues Day 2
Understanding and using Queue alias
Concept of Remote Queue definition
Using the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer
Introduction to the message queue interface (MQI)
Triggering concepts
Exercise: Implementing triggering
IBM WebSphere MQ internals
Message integrity
Exercise: Queue recovery Day 3
Distributed queuing
Exercise: Queue manager interconnection
Dead letter queues
How to define a rules table for DLQ handler
Exercise: Dead letter queue handling
Queue manager clustering
Adding queue manager to a cluster
Establishing communication between queue manager's in the cluster
Removing queue manager from the cluster
Exercise: IBM WebSphere MQ clustering setup Day 4
IBM WebSphere MQ security with OAM
Exercise: Object security administration with the OAM
Understanding the circumstances under which a client or a server needs to be installed
IBM WebSphere MQ clients
Exercise: Client attachment
SupportPacs, interfaces, and bridges Day 5
IBM WebSphere MQ high availability
Backup and restore of IBM WebSphere MQ object definitions
Exercise: Backup and restore of IBM WebSphere MQ object definitions
Message tracking
Exercise: Trace route utility
Using traces, error logs, and failure data capture files
Exercise: Performing an IBM WebSphere MQ trace
