Deciding whether to use the WebSphere MQ Explorer
When deciding whether to use the WebSphere MQ Explorer at your installation, bear the
following points in mind:
- Object names
- If you use lowercase names for queue managers and other objects with
the WebSphere MQ Explorer, when you work with the objects using MQSC commands, you must enclose
the object names in single quotes, or WebSphere MQ will not recognize them.
- Large queue managers
- The WebSphere MQ Explorer works best with small queue managers. If you have a large
number of objects on a single queue manager, you might experience delays while
the WebSphere MQ Explorer extracts the required information to present in a view.
- Clusters
- WebSphere MQ clusters can potentially contain hundreds or thousands of queue
managers. Because the WebSphere MQ Explorer presents the queue managers in a cluster using
a tree structure. The physical size of a cluster does not affect the speed
of the WebSphere MQ Explorer dramatically because the explorer does not connect to the queue
managers in the cluster until you select them.