Symptom -- A manually defined cluster sender channel is in retry state.

A manually defined cluster sender channel is in retry state.
1 : display chs(*)

AMQ8417: Display Channel Status details.

CHANNEL(TO.QM2) XMITQ(SYSTEM.CLUSTER.TRANSMIT.QUEUE)

CONNAME(computer.ibm.com(1414))

CURRENT CHLTYPE(CLUSSDR)

STATUS(RETRYING)

Cause

Either the remote, full repository queue manager is not available or there is a bad parameter in the CLUSSDR channel definition, the conname may be incorrect. Alter the CLUSSDR channel definition, then STOP and START the channel.