WA1494 WebSphere MQ V6 System Administration For AS/400 Training and Courseware Course Outline

1. WebSphere MQ Overview (Optional topic)

  • What is WebSphere MQ?
  • Types of communication
  • What’s in a message?
  • What is a queue?
  • What is a queue manager?
  • WebSphere MQ objects
  • Triggering
  • WebSphere MQ products
  • The WebSphere MQ platforms

2. WebSphere MQ V6 Administration

  • WebSphere MQ planning and installation
  • WebSphere MQ queue managers and objects
  • Single system setup
    • Creating a queue manager on iSeries
    • Using iSeries CL Commands and WMQ MQS commands
    • Define queues (local/alias/model/...)
    • Sample MQSeries programs
    • WebSphere MQ triggering

3. MQI - the Application Programming Interface

  • Preparing for application programs
  • MQI major calls
  • Message types, priorities, reports, triggering
  • Data conversion
  • MQI minor calls
  • Message groups/segmentation
  • Distribution lists

4. WMQ Advanced Administration Topics - Single System:

  • WMQ architecture and structure
    • Configuration files / Registry set up
    • WMQ IFS Directory structure / AS/400 libraries
    • iSeries WMQ Work Management Objects
  • Problem determination
    • Error logs
    • Tracing
  • Logging and recovery
    • Handling of persistent messages
    • WMQ Logging on i/Series
    • Managing iSeries  Journals / WMQ Logs
    • Types of recovery
    • Recovering WMQ objects
  • Programmable command format (PCF)

5. Interconnected systems:

  • Distributed queuing
  • Set up message channels
  • Dead letter queue handling
  • MQSeries clients
  • MQSeries clusters
  • Channel exit programs

6. Additional WMQ Administration topics:

  • WMQ Security
    • WMQ security concepts
    • OAM structure
    • Principals and groups
    • WMQ security commands
    • Use of alternate user IDs
    • Message Context  handling
  • Event Monitoring
  • Real Time Monitoring
  • Statistics / Accounting
  • SupportPacs
  • JMS Support