On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• explain clustering terminology and basic clustering concepts
• describe how a cluster works
• implement a cluster and perform common administrative tasks
• recognise the symptoms of frequently encountered problems and solve them
• evaluate and exploit the range of workload management options
• use distributed queuing techniques to connect Queue Managers inside a cluster to Queue Managers outside a cluster
• configure overlapping clusters
• outline how clusters support distributed publish/subscribe
• take steps to render a cluster secure
• discuss clustering current best practices.

• Introduction to Clustering
  • What is an IBM MQ cluster?
  • What an MQ cluster is not
  • Cloned application services
  • Continuous putting
  • Scalability
  • Cluster components
  • Reduced administration
  • Joining a Queue Manager to a cluster
  • Definition through use
  • Disseminating cluster information
  • Cluster information message contents
  • Retention of information in repositories
  • Dynamically created reply to queues
• Definition, Administration and Management
  • Basic cluster configuration
  • Cluster administration commands
  • DISPLAY CLUSQMGR
  • DISPLAY QCLUSTER
  • SUSPEND QMGR
  • RESUME QMGR
  • REFRESH CLUSTER
  • RESET CLUSTER
  • Cluster management tasks
  • Removing a cluster queue from the cluster
  • Moving a full repository
  • Removing a Queue Manager from the cluster
• Troubleshooting
  • Common symptoms and problems
  • Retrying CLUSSDR channel
  • SYSTEM.TEMP CLUSQMGR names
  • Unknown Object Name (RC 2085)
  • Cluster resolution error (RC 2189)
  • DISPLAY CLUSQMGR displays a Queue Manager twice
• Workload Management
  • Workload management before Version 6
  • Workload management options since V6
  • CLWLUSEQ(ANY)
  • CLWLRANK
  • CLWLPRTY
  • CLWLMRUC
  • CLWLWGHT
  • NETPRTY
  • The workload management algorithm
  • What happens when a target queue is unavailable?
  • BIND Options
  • DEFBIND, DEFPRTY and DEFPSIST
• Clustering and Distributed Queuing
  • Aliases revisited: Queue Manager aliases, queue aliases
  • Using queue aliases in clusters
  • Gateways
  • Accessing an individual queue outside the cluster
  • Accessing all queues owned by an external Queue Manager
  • Accessing external predefined queues via a QM alias
  • Accessing an individual queue inside the cluster
  • Accessing all of a cluster Queue Managers' queues
  • Workload management from outside the cluster
• Overlapping Clusters
  • What are overlapping clusters?
  • Definitions for overlapping clusters
  • Putting across the cluster boundary
• Publish/Subscribe Clusters
  • MQ Publish/Subscribe
  • Distributed publish/subscribe
  • Hierarchies and clusters
  • Proxy subscriptions in clusters
  • Publish/Subscribe clusters: recommendations
• Security
  • Stopping unauthorized Queue Managers connecting to your Queue Manager
  • Stopping unauthorized Queue Managers putting messages on your queues
  • Authorizing putting messages to remote cluster queues
  • Preventing Queue Managers joining a cluster
  • Forcing unwanted Queue Managers to leave a cluster
  • SSL and clusters
• Recommendations, Best Practices and Hints
  • Ten tips for a healthy MQ cluster
  • Why exactly two full repositories?
  • Dedicated servers for full repositories
  • Only one manually defined CLUSSDR
  • Naming channels

Live instructor-led training, with plenty of opportunities for hands-on exercises and discussion.
This course is also available for one-company, on-site presentations and for live presentation over the Internet, via the Virtual Classroom Environment service.

Delivered as a live, interactive online training

Experience of administering IBM MQ in a Linux, UNIX and/or Windows environment, or in a z/OS environment

Experienced MQ Administrators who will be responsible for designing, implementing and managing a WMQ cluster