Technical Introduction to IBM MQSeries [MQS1]

This course is designed for personnel who will be developing and/or supporting IBM MQ applications. The course is an intensive, practical, 'hands-on' workshop. For public presentations the course is taught with students using COBOL in a z/OS environment or Java in a Windows environment.

3 Days

Hands-On

$2495

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• IBM MQ Overview 
• The MQI Major Calls 
• The MQMD Message Descriptor 
• PUT Message Options
• The MQPUT Call
• GET Message Options
• The MQGET Call
• The MQPUT1 Call
• MQI Facilities
• MQGET with WAIT
• Request/Reply Messaging 
• Sync points
• Triggering
• Minor Calls & Messaging
• Publish & Subscribe
• Message Properties

• Establish a connection to a IBM MQ Queue Manager
• Understand the concepts of Queues, Queue Managers & WMQ messages
• Describe WMQ program design considerations & the MQI
• Explain triggering, sync points & message grouping & segmentation
• Discuss Distributed Queuing enablement
• Understand & describe Clustering
• Explain the role of WMQ system integrator
• Open/close predefined & dynamic queues
• Pass data between IBM MQ programs using queues & Pass Request/Reply messages between programs
• Use Msgid & Correlid to PUT & subsequently GET selected messages from a queue
• Understand the effect of putting & getting messages under Sync point control
• Understand the effect of using Persistent messages 

 Experience of writing and/or supporting applications programs. Attendees will also need to have a sound grasp of the fundamentals of IBM MQ, which can be gained by prior attendance on the course Technical Introduction to IBM MQ [MQS1]

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This newly revised and upgraded three-day course covers the operation, administration and support of IBM MQ systems and applications in a z/OS environment. Segments on RACF-based security and SSL are also included in this course. 

Regularly updated to reflect the new releases of the product, this course covers the administration of IBM MQ up to and including the current release.

3 Days

Hands-On

$2495

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• Basic Messaging Concepts
• IBM MQ Configuration
• Administrative Interfaces
•  MQ Objects  
• Triggering
• Distributed Queuing - In Depth
• Introduction to Clustering
• Implementing the MQ Client
• Queue Sharing Groups
• MQ Management
• IBM MQ Security  
• IBM MQ and RACF  
• Publish & Subscribe  
• Comparing Distributed & z/OS

• Investigate how IBM MQ PSIDs, storage classes and buffer pools have been set up in your installation
• Define and manage MQ objects such as queues and channels using ISPF panels, MQ script commands and the MQ Explorer
• Set up triggered queues
• Establish distributed queuing channels both directly to an adjacent Queue Manager and indirectly through one or more intermediate Queue Managers
• Inspect and process messages on the Queue Manager's dead letter queue 
• Troubleshoot distributed queuing problems
• Implement a basic MQ cluster
• Create connections between an MQ client and an MQ Queue Manager using both an environment variable and a client channel connection table
• List the benefits of queue sharing groups
• Outline the principles of MQ logging and units of work
• Review the security mechanisms available to the z/OS implementation of IBM MQ
• Explain how IBM MQ interfaces with RACF
• Describe how publish/subscribe differs from traditional point-to point queuing
• Test a simple publish/subscribe implementation
• Compare the z/OS implementation of IBM MQ with the distributed implementations of IBM MQ

Attendees must be familiar with IBM MQ at a conceptual and terminological level. This can be achieved by attending the course Technical Introduction to IBM MQ [MQS1], or through prior practical experience. Attendees must also have a working knowledge of TSO/ISPF, JCL and conceptual-level knowledge of the z/OS computing environment

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