IBM MQ V8 System Administration for zOS

Course Description

The knowledge and abilities needed to configure and manage an IBM MQ V8 queue manager on z/OS are covered in this course.

Prerequisites

You should have: Basic knowledge of IBM MQ V8 concepts obtained through experience or by completing course Technical Introduction to IBM MQ (WM103G)

Working proficiency with the z/OS platform, obtained through experience or by completing course Fundamental System Skills in z/OS (ES10G)

Knowledge of TCP/IP is also helpful.

Target Audience

This intermediate course is designed for technical support personnel who implement, operate, & perform day-to-day administration of IBM MQ V8 on z/OS.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe message-oriented middleware & the capabilities it must provide
  • Identify the key components of IBM MQ for z/OS
  • Summarize the responsibilities of the IBM MQ administrator
  • Configure IBM MQ IBM V8 for z/OS
  • Enable IBM MQ for z/OS eight-byte RBA & buffers above 2 GB
  • Demonstrate how to create & change queues & place & retrieve messages from a queue
  • Define & demonstrate how to set up & work with distributed queuing
  • Differentiate between an IBM MQ queue manager & an IBM MQ client
  • Describe & demonstrate how to set up an IBM MQ cluster
  • Contrast point-to-point & publish/subscribe messaging styles
  • Describe shared queues & queue sharing groups
  • Summarize IBM MQ for z/OS recovery & restart activities
  • Demonstrate how to use IBM MQ events for monitoring
  • Summarize performance considerations
  • Describe security considerations for IBM MQ for z/OS
  • Describe & implement connection authentication & channel authentication
  • Identify correct problem determination techniques for IBM MQ for z/OS
  • Summarize basic use & configuration of IBM MQ Managed File Transfer
  • Describe IBM MQ support for CICS & IMS interfaces

Content Outline

Course Introduction

IBM MQ review

IBM MQ architecture, installation, & configuration

Exercise: Configuring an IBM MQ for z/OS queue manager

IBM MQ for z/OS administrative interface options

Exercise: Working with queues

Distributed queuing

Exercise: Working with channels

IBM MQ clients

Exercise: Working with IBM MQ clients

IBM MQ cluster basics

Exercise: Working with IBM MQ clusters

Publish/subscribe to basics

Exercise: Publish/subscribe to basics

Queue sharing groups

Using IBM MQ events & the dead-letter queue utility

Exercise: Working with IBM MQ events

Security considerations

Exercise: Security

Problem determination

IBM MQ Managed File Transfer

Exercise: IBM MQ Managed File Transfer configuration for z/OS

IBM MQ for z/OS backup, recovery, & related file tasks

Exercise: Working with file handling utilities

Support for CICS, IMS, & HTTP applications

Course Summary

FAQs

Any data can be transported as messages using IBM MQ, allowing companies to create adaptable, reusable structures like service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments. It enables the delivery of secure messages across a wide range of computing systems, programmes, web services, and communications protocols. For visibility and management of the flow of messages and data both inside and outside your business, IBM MQ offers a communications layer.

IBM MQ provides:

Flexible mainframe-to-mobile messaging connection that offers a solitary, reliable communications backbone for dynamic heterogeneous contexts

Delivery of messages with strong security features and verifiable outcomes.

High-performance message delivery to increase the speed and reliability of data delivery.

Administrative features that simplify messaging management & reduce time spent using complex tools.

Open standards development tools that support extensibility & business growth.

There are several different ways of using IBM MQ, for example you can:

Create & manage IBM MQ with the MQ Explorer GUI or by running commands from a command window or application.

Program applications to send & receive messages by calling one of the programming interfaces. Programming interfaces are provided for different languages, & include the standard JMS programming interface, & classes for the Windows communication foundation.

Send & receive IBM MQ messages from browsers with the HTTP protocol.

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