A direct connection definition supplies information to allow the local
queue manager to create a channel to a remote queue manager in the MQe network.
The information is the actual network information for the remote queue manager
and does not involve any routing via other queue managers.
There are two variants of a direct connection, these are:
- Alias connection definition
An alias connection definition provides just one piece of information,
the name of an actual connection definition or another alias. One may think
of these aliases as queue manager aliases, they allow an administrator to
set up a connection definition to a particular queue manager which may then
be referred to by another name.
- MQ connection definition
This is a specialized connection that identifies a remote queue manager
as an MQ queue manager as opposed to an MQe queue manager. For
further information on the Bridge functionality of MQe, refer
to Configuring bridge/gateway resources.