WA1144 WebSphere MQ For z/OS System Administration
This course teaches the student how to setup, customize and operate WebSphere MQ for z/OS. Through a series of lectures and hands-on exercises, you learn to handle the general system administration tasks in MVS environment (OS/390 and z/OS). The topics include single system setup, queue definitions, recovery and logging, triggering, interconnected systems, channel definitions, and many others.
Topics
  • MQSeries planning and installation
  • Single system setup
  • ISPF Control panels (CSQOREXX)
  • MQS Commands and CSQUTIL
  • Triggering setup
  • MQI - the application programming interface overview
  • Distributed queue management
  • WebSphere MQ Clusters
  • Queue Sharing Groups (QSG) overview
  • WebSphere MQ client
  • Problem determination
  • Logging and recovery
  • Security
  • CICS/IMS adaptors
  • Event Monitoring
  • SMF Recording
Practical work
Students will first configure queues. Then they will develop a message source that will put information in the queue. Next they will develop a message consumer.
What you will learn
Upon the completion of this course, the student should be able to:
  • Plan the implementation of WebSphere MQ on z/OS
  • Install WebSphere MQ
  • Perform simple customization and administration tasks
  • Implement triggering
  • Setup for Distributed queuing
  • Setup for Clustering
  • Implement WebSphere MQ Client access
  • Implement basic restart and recovery procedures
  • Perform basic problem determination
  • Setup security for queues, data access and for administration using role-based security
Audience
System administrators responsible for the setup and maintenance of WebSphere MQ subsystems on MVS (OS/390 or z/OS).
Prerequisites
Students should have:
  • WA1043 Technical Introduction to WebSphere MQ, plus system administration experience in MVS environment.
Duration
Four days.
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