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WhatisMQandwhatdoesitdo?
Ans.MQstandsforMESSAGEQUEUEING.WebSphereMQallowsapplication
programstousemessagequeuingtoparticipateinmessagedrivenprocessing.
Applicationprogramscancommunicateacrossdifferentplatformsbyusingthe
appropriatemessagequeuingsoftwareproducts.
WhatisMessagedrivenprocess?
Ans.Whenmessagesarriveonaqueue,theycanautomaticallystartanapplication
usingtriggering.Ifnecessary,theapplicationscanbestoppedwhenthemessage(or
messages)havebeenprocessed.
WhatareadvantagesoftheMQ?
Ans.1.Integration.
2.Asynchrony
3.AssuredDelivery
4.Scalability.

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HowdoesitsupporttheIntegration?
Ans.BecausetheMQisindependentoftheOperatingSystemyouusei.e.itmaybe
Windows,Solaris,AIX.Itisindependentoftheprotocol(i.e.TCP/IP,LU6.2,SNA,
NetBIOS,UDP).Itisnotrequiredthatboththesenderandreceivershouldberunningon
thesameplatform
WhatisAsynchrony?
Ans.Withmessagequeuing,theexchangeofmessagesbetweenthesendingand
receivingprogramsisindependentoftime.Thismeansthatthesendingandreceiving
applicationprogramsaredecoupledthesendercancontinueprocessingwithouthaving
towaitforthereceivertoacknowledgereceiptofthemessage.Thetargetapplication
doesnotevenhavetoberunningwhenthemessageissent.Itcanretrievethemessage
afteritishasbeenstarted.

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Ans.WebSphereMQforAIX,V5.3runsonanymachinethatsupportstheAIXV4.3.3
PowerPC32.bit,orAIXV5.1Power32bitonlyoperatingsystem.
DiskStorage:Typicalstoragerequirementsareasfollows:
1Serverinstallation:50MB
2.Clientinstallation:15MB
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1.AIXV4.3.3,withPTFU472177,runningina32bitenvironment,on32or64bit
hardware.
2.AIXV5.1,withPTFsU476879,U477366,U477367andU477368,andAPARfix
IY29345running32bitkernelrunningon32or64bithardware.
3.AIXV5.1,withPTFU476879,U477366,U477367andU477368,andAPARfix
IY29345running64bitkernelrunningon64bithardware.
ConnectivityThenetworkprotocolssupportedbyWebSphereMQforAIX,V5.3are:
1.TCP/IP

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WhatarethesoftwareandhardwarerequirementsforinstallingMQonWindows?
Ans:MQv5.3supportsWindows2000,Windows2000XP,Windows2000NT,
Windows2003SE,Windows2003EE.
DiskStorage:Typicalstoragerequirementsareasfollows:
1Serverinstallation:50MB
2.Clientinstallation:15MB
3Datastorage(server):50MB
4.Datastorage(client):5MB.

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Java:IfyouwanttousetheJavaMessagingSupport,youneedtheJavaRuntime
EnvironmentVersion1.3orlater

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whatisaMessageandwhatdoesitcontain?

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Ans:Amessageisastringofbytesthatismeaningfultotheapplicationsthatuseit.
Messagesareusedtotransferinformationfromoneapplicationprogramtoanother(or
betweendifferentpartsofthesameapplication).Theapplicationscanberunningonthe
sameplatform,orondifferentplatforms.
WebSphereMQmessageshavetwoparts:
1.Theapplicationdata.Thecontentandstructureoftheapplicationdataisdefinedby
theapplicationprogramsthatuseit.
2.Amessagedescriptor.Themessagedescriptoridentifiesthemessageandcontains
additionalcontrolinformation,suchasthetypeofmessageandthepriorityassignedto
themessagebythesendingapplication.WebSphereMQdefinestheformatofthe
messagedescriptor.Foracompletedescriptionofthemessagedescriptor,
WhatistheMaxLengthofthemessagedoesMQsupport/
Ans:Thedefaultmaximummessagelengthis4MB,althoughyoucanincreasethistoa
maximumlengthof100MB(where1MBequals1048576bytes).

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WhatisthedifferencebetweenPersistentandNonPersistentMessages?

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Ans:InWebSphereMQ,messagescanbeeitherpersistentornonpersistent.Persistent
messagesareloggedandcanberecoveredintheeventofaWebSphereMQfailure.
Thus,persistentmessagesareguaranteedtobedeliveredonceandonlyonce.
Nonpersistentmessagesarenotlogged.WebSpherestillguaranteestodeliverthemnot
morethanonce,butitdoesnotpromisetodeliverthemonce.

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WhatistheeffectofusingPersistantmessages?
Ans:Persistentmessagesareusuallylogged.Loggingmessagesreducesthe
performanceofyourapplication,sousepersistentmessagesforessentialdataonly.If
thedatainamessagecanbediscardedifthequeuemanagerstopsorfails,usea
nonpersistentmessage.
WebSphereMQmessages:
MessagesaremadeupofTwoparts:Messagedescriptor,Applicationdata
Typesofmessages?

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Datagram:AMessagesentwithnoresponseexpected.

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environment

Request:AMessagesentforwhicharesponseisexpected.

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andprogramfixestoMes...

Reply:AResponseMessageforarequestedmessage.

ResponsefilesforMessage
Brokerinstallation/Uni...

Report:AMessagethatdescribestheoccurrenceorevent

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Sizes?
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Queue5000MsgsMaxmsglength4Mb
WhatistheattributeusedtoseetheMessagelength?

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Ans:MaxMsgLength

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WhatisMQClient?

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Ans:AWebSphereMQclientisacomponentthatallowsanapplicationrunningona
systemtoissueMQIcallstoaqueuemanagerrunningonanothersystem.Theoutput
fromthecallissentbacktotheclient,whichpassesitbacktotheapplication.
WhatisMQServer?
Ans:AWebSphereMQserverisaqueuemanagerthatprovidesqueuingservicestoone
ormoreclients.AlltheWebSphereMQobjects,forexamplequeues,existonlyonthe
queuemanagermachine(theWebSphereMQservermachine),andnotontheclient.A
WebSphereMQservercanalsosupportlocalWebSphereMQ
Applications
WhataretheObjectsusedinWebsphereMQ?
Ans:1.QueueManager2.Queues
3.Channels4.Processes5.Namelists.

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MentiontheNoofCharactersrequiredforcreatingnamesoftheMQobjects?

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Ans:ForMQChannelsitis20Characters

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ForRemainingobjectsitis48characters.

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WhataboutistheDefaultportnumberforMQQueueManager?

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FFST?

Ans:1414
DifferencebetweenMQSCcommandsandControlcommands?

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SSLconnectionshavebee...

MQSCCommandsThesecommandsareusedtohandletheadminrelatedfunctions
forthecomponentsthatarepresentintheMQSeries.IngeneralMQSCcommandsare
usedforcreatingandmaintainingMessagechannels,QueueManagers,Clustersetc
ControlCommandsThesecommandsareusedtomanagetheprocessesandservices
thatarehelpfulinthefunctioningoftheMQSeries.Ingeneralthesecommandsareused
forChannellistener,ChannelInitiator,Triggermonitoretc
IstheMQSCattributesareCasesensitive?

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Ans:MQSCcommands,includingtheirattributes,canbewritteninuppercaseor
lowercase.ObjectnamesinMQSCcommandsarefoldedtouppercase(thatis,QUEUE
andqueuearenotdifferentiated),unlessthenamesareenclosedwithinsinglequotation
marks.Ifquotationmarksarenotused,theobjectisprocessedwithanamein
uppercase.

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SCRIPTCOMMANDS:

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Afterenteringintoqueuemanagerwecanfindscriptcommands.

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Scriptcommandsaresameforeveryqueuemanager.

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Experienced...

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Channels,process,andlistener.

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ALTER:toupdateormodifytheexistingobjects

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WebSphereMQV7/In...

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CLEAR:toclearthemessagefromthequeue

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WebSphereMQV7Demo

END:tocomeoutofthequeuemanager

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PING:tocheckwhetherothersidechannel/queuemanagerisreadytoacceptour
request.

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dete...

START:tostarttheparticularchannelorlistener

MQV7/WebSphereMQV7.0
Featuresand
Enhancement...

STOP:tostopparticularchannelorlistener

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SUSPEND:tosuspendaqueuemanagerfromaclusterenvironment

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RESUME:toremoveaqueuemanagerfromaclusterenvironment

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HowcanwewritetheMQSCcommandsthathavetoomanyparameters/
Ans:Forcommandsthathavetoomanyparameterstofitononeline,usecontinuation
characterstoindicatethatacommandiscontinuedonthefollowingline:

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1.Aminussign()indicatesthatthecommandistobecontinuedfromthestartof_the
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2.Aplussign(+)indicatesthatthecommandistobecontinuedfromthefirstnonblank
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Whatisprogrammablecommandformat(PCF)commands?

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byprogrammers.
WhatarecommandsusedforcreatingtheQueuemanagerfromtheCommandprompt?
Ans:crtmqmqdMY.DEFAULT.XMIT.QUEUEuDEAD.LETTER.QUEUEQM1
HerequsedtodefinetheQueuemanagerQM1asaDefaultQueuemanager
disusedtodefinethedefaulttransmissionQueueuisusedtodefinethedefaultdead
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HowcanUmaketheexistingQueueManagerasandefaultQueueManager?
Ans:OnWindowssystems,usetheWebSphereMQServicessnapintodisplaythe
propertiesofthequeuemanager,andchecktheMakequeuemanagerthedefaultbox.
Youneedtostopandrestartthequeuemanagerforthechangetotakeeffect.
WherearethebackupfilesarepresentaftercreatingtheQueueManager?

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Ans:Windowssystems:IfyouuseWebSphereMQforWindowsNTandWindows2000,
configurationinformationisstoredintheWindowsRegistry.
UNIXSystems:1.Whenyouinstalltheproduct,theWebSphereMQconfigurationfile
(mqs.ini)iscreated.Itcontainsalistofqueuemanagersthatisupdatedeachtimeyou
createordeleteaqueuemanager.Thereisonemqs.inifilepernode.
2.Whenyoucreateanewqueuemanager,anewqueuemanagerconfigurationfile
(qm.ini)isautomaticallycreated.Thiscontainsconfigurationparametersforthequeue
manager.
WhatisthecommandusedforstartingtheQueueManager?
Ans:strmqmQMName
WhatisthecommandusedforstoppingtheQueuemanager?
Ans:endmqmwQMName
Thecommandwaitsuntilallapplicationshavestoppedandthequeuemanagerhas
ended.
endmqmiQMName
Thistypeofshutdowndoesnotwaitforapplicationstodisconnectfromthequeue
manager.
WhatsthemessagecodeforStoppingaQueueManager?
AMQ4044Queuemanagerstopping
WhatisthecommandusedtodeletetheQueueManager?
Ans:dltmqmQMName
DisplaytheattributesoftheQueueManagerQM1?
Ans:runmqscQM1Displayqmgr
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Jason January23,2011at3:30PM
verynice,andveryhelpful!
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Gagandeepkhattar January14,2014at7:56AM
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