Configuring WebSphere MQ queue managers

If your WebSphere® MQ File Transfer Edition network includes more than one WebSphere MQ queue manager, these WebSphere MQ queue managers must be able to remotely communicate with each other.

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There are two ways to configure your queue managers to be able to communicate with each other:
  • By setting up a WebSphere MQ queue manager cluster
  • By creating channels between the queue managers

Setting up a queue manager cluster

For information about WebSphere MQ queue manager clusters and how to configure them, see Getting started with queue manager clusters.

Setting up channels between queue managers

Set up the following message channels between your queue managers:
  • From the agent queue manager to the coordination queue manager
  • From the command queue manager to the agent queue manager
  • From the agent queue manager to the command queue manager (to enable feedback messages to be shown by the commands).
  • From the command queue manager to the coordination queue manager
  • From the agent queue manager to any other agent queue manager in the WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition network

If you need further information about how to set up this communication, start with this WebSphere MQ Version 7.0 information: Administering remote WebSphere MQ objects using MQSC

Some suggested example steps are:

Procedure

  1. Create a transmission queue on the WebSphere MQ queue manager with the same name as the coordination queue manager. You can use the following MQSC command:
    DEFINE QLOCAL(coordination-qmgr-name) USAGE(XMITQ)
  2. On the WebSphere MQ queue manager, create a sender channel to the WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition coordination queue manager. The name of the transmission queue created in the previous step is a required parameter for this channel. On the sender channel, ensure the CONVERT parameter of the channel is set to no. (WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition always publishes messages in UTF-8 format, which means that any data conversion corrupts the message.) You can use the following MQSC command:
    DEFINE CHANNEL(channel-name) CHLTYPE(SDR) CONNAME('coordination-qmgr-host(coordination-qmgr-port)') XMITQ(coordination-qmgr-name) CONVERT(NO)
  3. On the WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition coordination queue manager, create a receiver channel to the WebSphere MQ queue manager. Give this receiver channel the same name as the sender channel on the WebSphere MQ queue manager. You can use the following MQSC command:
    DEFINE CHANNEL(channel-name) CHLTYPE(RCVR)

What to do next

Next, follow the configuration steps for your coordination queue manager: Configuring the coordination queue manager.


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