WebSphereMQ Administration for z/OS

Prerequisites:

The course assumes no knowledge of WebSphere or MQ, however, delegates are expected to be familiar with the IBM z/OS Enterprise Server operating system.

Course Description:

This course provides all the necessary background and specific information to enable the delegates to be fully functioning WebSphereMQ Administrators. In particular it will look at installing, tailoring, managing and troubleshooting a WebSphereMQ system.

This course includes the following modules:

Introduction to message queues

• Types of MQ system
• Client and Server Platforms
• Objects
• Queue Manager
• Queues
• Messages
• Namelist
• Process Definition
• Channels
• Message Channel Agent
• Message Queue Interface
• MQEXPLORER
• Creating a Queue Manager
• Queue Manager sets
• Creating a Queue
• Sending a message to your local default Queue
• To View what is on a queue
• Sending a message to a local queue
• Sending a message to a Remote Queue
• Creating a Transmission queue
• Creating a Remote queue
• Creating a Listener
• Creating a Sender/Receiver Channel
• Message Hopping

Administration commands

• Control Commands
• crtmqm
• strmqm
• endmqm
• dltmqm
• strmqcsv
• endmqcsv
• runmqtrm
• runmqlsr
• runmqsc
• MQSeries Commands(MQSC)
• Introduction
• Commands
• Command Objects
• Combinations
• Defining a Queue
• Defining an Alias Queue
• Defining a Model Queue
• Changing an Existing Queue
• Remove all Messages from a Queue
• Deleting a Queue
• Channel Commands
• Listener Commands

PCF Commands

• The Dead Letter Queue
• Reasons why a message should/not appear
• Creation
• Dead Letter Queue Handler
• Dead Letter Queue Handler Set of Rules File

Triggering

• Every
• First
• Depth
• Trigger Requirements
• Setting a Trigger
• Initiation queue
• Trigger Monitor
• Triggered Process
• The arrival of a message

Distribution/Name List

• Clusters
• Full Repository
• Partial Repository
• Cluster Subscriptions and Publications
• Cluster Sender And Receiver Channels
• Cluster Definitions
• Refresh Cluster
• Workload balancing
• Various Cluster Commands
• Alias and Remote Queue Definitions
• Resolving Queue Names
• Overlapping Clusters

Logs

• Creating Persistent/Non Persistent Messages
• Within Syncpoint Control
• Outside Syncpoint Control
• Types Of Logging
• Declaring The Logging Information
• Logging commands

Security

• Access Control
• OAM(OBJECT AUTHORITY MANAGER)
• MCA Exits
• Message Context
• API Crossing Exit
• Secure Sockets Layer
• Confidentiality of the data
• Data Integrity
• Digital Security
• SSL
• Introduction
• Protocol
• Handshake
• Establish the SSL handshake
• Create the Repository
• Obtaining a Certificate
• Installing the Certificate
• Setting up the channels

Reports

• Events and Event Queue
• Message Broker Overview
• Accounting
• Publish and Subscribe
• Topic
• Publishers
• Subscribers
• Message Selection
• Topic string
• Durable Subscription
• Applications
• Creating a Topic
• Creating a Subscription
• Alter a Subscription
• Delete a Subscription
• Display a Subscription
• Topic Alias