About this Course

This course is intended for personnel who will be responsible for installing, operating, administering and supporting WebSphere MQ systems and applications relating to those systems for distributed platforms (Windows, Linux, UNIX.)

Audience Profile

Technical personnel such as systems administrators, operations analysts, operators and anyone else who may be responsible for providing day-to-day support of WebSphere MQ on Distributed Platforms.

Prerequisites

A familiarity with WebSphere MQ, such as that gained by attending WebSphere MQ Introduction or a similar background.

Course Outline

1. WebSphere MQ Review

• Queues
• Queue Managers
• Program-to-program Communication
• The Synchronous Model
• The Asynchronous Model
• Distributed Systems
• Assured MSG Delivery
• Time Independence
• Parallel Processing
• Program Independence
• Network "Decoupling"
• Messages
• Operating Platforms
• The MQI
• Supported Languages

2. Installation & Configuration

• The Install Process
• File System Layout and Space Estimate
• Create / Delete QMGR
• Start / Stop QMGR
• WebSphere MQ Services
• WebSphere MQ Commands
• MQ Explorer Introduction
• System Queues

3. System Administration

• Queue Types and Runmqsc
• Local Queues
• Alias Queues
• Model Queues
• Dynamic Queues
• Remote Queues
• Other Queue related commands
• MQ Explorer and Queues

4. The MQI & Triggering

• Common Concepts and Call Sequences
• MQCONN MQCONNX MQDISC notes
• MQOPEN MQCLOSE notes
• MQPUT MQPUT1 notes
• MQGET
• Message/Correlation Ids's usage notes
• Message Priority
• Message Expiry
• Data Conversion
• Reply-To-Queue Process
• Triggering Overview
• Trigger Parameters
• Trigger Events
• Trigger Monitors
• The Trigger Message

5. Intercommunication

• Local vs. Remote Perspective and Queues
• Transmission Queues
• Channel Basic Configuration
• Channels Type combinations
• Special Channel Attributes
• Assured Message Delivery
• Multiple Channel Paths
• Multi Hopping
• Start/ Stop Channel Intiator, Channels and Listener
• Dead Letter Queue notes
• Queue Manager Aliases

6. Integrity, Restart & Recovery

• Recovery vs. Integrity
• Application Integrity
• UOW and GUOW Coordination
• Message Recovery
• System Restart
• Log Types
• Log Files
• Media Recovery

7. Security

• What can be protected
• The OAM
• Setmqaut Command
• Authorization Options
• Dspmqaut and Dmpmqaut Commands
• Resource Access and Command Security Options
• Message Contexts
• Supply Different USERIDs