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

• understand the concepts of Queues, Queue Managers and MQ messages
• describe IBM MQ program design considerations and the MQI
• explain triggering, syncpoints and message grouping and segmentation
• discuss Distributed Queuing enablement
• understand and describe Clustering.

• Basic Messaging Concepts
  • Islands of information and IBM MQ
  • What's in a name?
  • Software layers
  • IBM MQ features
  • Wide platform coverage
  • The MQI - a common application programming interface
  • Time independent or asynchronous processing
  • Assured message delivery
  • Support of different application styles
  • MQ - some comparisons: Queues, Messages, MQPUT, MQGET
  • Queue managers and database managers
  • A significant difference between queues and database tables..
  • Messages and queues
  • Shared queues
  • The Queue Manager
  • Basic message structure
  • Asynchronous messaging
  • Synchronous messaging
  • Multiple requesters, one responder
  • Parallel messaging
  • Re-using MQ application processes as business objects
  • Meshed business objects
  • Remote messaging (distributed queuing)
  • MQ clients.
• Queue Managers, Queues and Messages
  • Queue types
  • Local queues
  • Alias queues
  • Model and dynamic queues
  • Remote queues
  • The Message Descriptor
  • Datagram message type
  • Request/Reply messages
  • Report messages - COA
  • Report messages - COD
  • Message priority
  • Message-id and correlation-id
  • Message retrieval by message or correlation id
  • Using Msgid and CorrelIid
  • Message persistence
  • Message persistence - logging
  • Circular logging in distributed MQ
  • Linear logging in distributed MQ
  • Message expiry
  • Message expiry usage
  • Message translation - encoding
  • Message translation - coded character set
• The MQI, Triggering and Syncpoints
  • The MQI layer
  • The MQI - language Interfaces
  • The MQI calls
  • Program preparation
  • Load Module structure
  • MQCONN
  • MQCONN sample call
  • MQOPEN
  • MQOPEN sample call
  • MQPUT
  • MQPUT sample call
  • MQGET
  • MQGET sample call
  • MQCLOSE
  • MQCLOSE sample call
  • MQPUT1
  • MQDISC
  • MQDISC sample call
  • Triggering - why?
  • Using triggering
  • Triggering overview
  • Trigger message contents
  • Syncpoint control
  • MQCMIT
  • MQGET under syncpoint control
  • Syncpoints and non-resource managed objects
  • Recovery co-ordination without a transaction manager
  • MQ recovery co-ordination of XA compliant resource manager(s)
  • Recovery with a transaction manager
  • A distributed business transaction without MQ
  • A distributed business transaction with MQ
  • Message grouping and segmentation
• MQ Distributed Queuing - Overview
  • Distributed queuing components
  • Remote queues
  • Transmission queues
  • Message Channel Agents
  • MCA configuration
  • Channel types
  • Triggering channels
  • Dead letter queues
  • Client/server or MQI channels
  • Setting up a client/server channel
  • MQ clustering
  • Cluster resilience
  • Choosing the target instance of a cluster queue
• MQ Administration
  • Installing MQ
  • Administration mechanisms
  • Control commands
  • MQSC (MQ script) commands
  • Runmqsc: displaying Queue Manager properties
  • Runmqsc: displaying queue properties
  • MQ Explorer: looking at Queue Managers
  • MQ Explorer: looking at queues and channels
  • z/OS ISPF panels: looking at queues
  • Instrumentation events
• Introduction to IBM MQ Security
  • Channel Exits
  • Security Exits
  • Other channel exits
  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
  • Channel Authentication Records
  • Connection authentication
  • Access Control
  • Message Descriptor (MQMD) context information
  • Advanced Message Security
• IBM MQ Additional Features
  • MQ Publish/Subscribe
  • A classic example
  • Types of publications
  • State publications
  • Event publications
  • Adding business processes as subscribers
  • MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
  • MQ Managed File Transfer

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

Delivered as a live, interactive online training

A knowledge of one or more IT applications environments

All technical and management personnel requiring an introduction to IBM MQ