1. Introduction to Message Broker Concepts
- Review the WebSphere MQ product family and base WebSphere MQ technology
- Describe the environment leading to the requirement for business integration and transformation
- List and explain the functions of the primary components of WMB V6.1
2. Design and Setup Considerations
- Explain the roles and responsibilities of each component in a WMB architecture.
- List options to set up WMB infrastructure.
3. Introduction to the Message Broker Toolkit
- Demonstrate the steps to start up and operate the Message Brokers Toolkit
- Explain the components of the Toolkit
- Demonstrate the steps required to create message flows in the Toolkit
- Explain the uses for the IBM primitives
- List the components of a WMB message
4. Problem Determination
- Explain message flow behaviors when an error occurs.
- Describe the different debugging techniques.
5. Working with Message Broker Nodes
- List the parts of a WMB message and how the message is parsed through nodes.
- Demonstrate how to code basic ESQL statements.
- Demonstrate how to use the IBM primitive nodes and describe when each might be used.
- Working with databases in message flows
6. Developing with Performance in Mind
- Using reference variables for with message trees
- Working with Shared variables
- User-defined variables
- Version Control implementation in a message flow
- Building messages in the Environment tree
7. Working with Message Broker Nodes
- Using Aggregation nodes to collate replies
- Processing information from different sources – Collector Nodes
- Using the MQGET node to process replies
8. Message Modeling and Mapping
- Explain how to store message layouts in the Toolkit.
- Demonstrate how to implement message models.
- Demonstrate how to import and use C, XML and Cobol structures in the Toolkit.
9. Using Java in the Message broker
- The JavaCompute node
- Using XPATH to work with the message tree
- JMS in the message broker
10. Routing data through message flows
- Route, RouteToLabel, Label and DatabaseRoute nodes
11. Using SOAP and HTTP nodes
- Understanding Web Services in the message broker
- Using the HTTP Nodes
- Using SOAP nodes
12. Additional input and output options
- Timer nodes
- File Nodes
- Email Output node
13. Publish/Subscribe updates
- Explain when WMB Pub/Sub models could/should be used.
- List the steps to integrate a WMB V6 pub/sub model.
- Explain how and why a pub/sub collective is used.
- Explain the security services for a publish/subscribe.
- Explain the filters for a publish/subscribe.
- Explain the command messages used for publish/subscribe.
14. Implementing Nodes and Parsers
- Describe the scenarios that would require a custom node/plug in to be written.
- List the steps required to implement a custom node and/or write a custom parser.
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