WebSphere MQ utility program (CSQUTIL)

The CSQUTIL utility program is provided with WebSphere MQ to help you to perform backup, restoration, and reorganization tasks, and to issue WebSphere MQ commands. Through this utility program, you can invoke functions in these groups:

Page set management
These functions enable you to manage WebSphere MQ page sets. You can format data sets as page sets, change the recovery processing performed against page sets, extract page set information, increase the size of page sets and reset the log information contained in a page set. The page set must not belong to a queue manager that is currently running.
Command management
These functions enable you to:
Queue management
These functions enable you to back up and restore queues and page sets, copy queues and page sets to another queue manager, reset your queue manager, or to migrate from one queue manager to another.

Specifically, you can:

The scope of these functions can be either:

Use these functions only for your own queues; do not use them for system queues (those with names beginning SYSTEM).

All the page set management functions, and some of the other functions, operate while the queue manager is not running, so you do not need any special authorization other than the appropriate access to the page set data sets. For the functions that operate while the queue manager is running, CSQUTIL runs as an ordinary z/OS batch WebSphere MQ program, issuing commands through the command server and using the WebSphere MQ API to access queues.

You need the necessary authority to use the command server queues (SYSTEM.COMMAND.INPUT, SYSTEM.COMMAND.REPLY.MODEL, and SYSTEM.CSQUTIL.*), to use the WebSphere MQ DISPLAY commands, and to use the WebSphere MQ API to access any queues that you want to manage. See the usage notes for each function for more information.