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

CSQOREXX (Mainframe Panel)

• Creating a Queue Manager (Subsystem)
• Creating a Queue
• Listing Objects
• Sending a message to your local Queue
• To View what is on a queue
• Sending a message to a Remote Queue
• Creating a Transmission queue
• Creating a Remote queue
• Creating a Listener
• Creating a Sender/Receiver Channel
• Channel Initiator
• Message Hopping

Administration commands

• Starting/Stoping Queue Managers

MQSeries Commands(MQSC)

• CSQUTIL/Option 8 fro CSQOREXX
• 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 z/OS Environment

• The Queue Manager Subsystem
• Queue Sharing Groups
• Shared Queues
• The MQ Storage Environment
• Storage Classes
• Default Storage Classes
• Define Storage Classes
• Viewing Storage Classes
• Buffer Pools and Page Sets
• Page Set Definition
• Buffers And Buffer Pool
• Starting the Queue Manager

MAKEDEF

Queue Management

• Define/Delete/Alter
• Deleting Messages
• Copying Messages From a Queue
• Restoring Copied Messages

The Dead Letter Queue

• Reasons why a message should/not appear
• Creation
• Dead Letter Queue Handler/Rules File
• CICS Transactions

Triggering

• Every/First/Depth
• Trigger Requirements
• Setting a Trigger
• Initiation queue
• Trigger Monitor
• Triggered Process

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
• Removing

Logging

• Types of Log Files
• Dual Logging
• Active Logs
• When the Active Log Is Written
• Declaring the Logging Information
• CSQ6SYSP
• What the Bootstrap Data Set is For
• Definition
• CSQJU003
• Archive Logging
• Archiving
• CSQ6ARVP
• The Log Datasets
• Log Records
• Unit of Recovery
• Checkpoint Records
• Page Set Control Records
• CF Structure Backup Records
• The Off Load Process
• Interruptions and Errors While Off Loading
• Messages During Off Load
• Archive Log Data Sets and BSDS Copies
• What Happens During Restart and Recovery
• Rebuilding Queue Indexes
• Log Utilities

Mainframe Traces

• AP1 Trace
• Channel Initiator Trace
• Generalized Trace

Reports

Security

• Access Control
• 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

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

JMS

• Enterprise Messaging System
• The JMS Programming Model
• JMS Administered Objects
• JNDI Namespace
• Connection Factory
• Rules And Format Header Version 2
• JMS Messages
• Field Relationships
• Message Types