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What is MQ connection?

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What is MQ connection?

MQ Connections are sharable resources that can be reused across multiple MQ proxy and business services. MQ proxy and business services must connect to an MQ queue manager before accessing an MQ queue. MQ Connection resources provide the connection parameters required for connecting to a MQ queue manager.

How do I connect to MQ server?

Procedure

  1. Check the TCP/IP connection. From the client, enter one of the following commands: ping server-hostname. ping n.n.n.n.
  2. Set the MQSERVER environment variable. From the client, enter one of the following commands: On Windows: SET MQSERVER= channelName /TCP/ server-address ( port )

What is MQ server connection channel?

Server connection. A server connection channel is a bidirectional MQI channel that is used to connect an IBM MQ client to an IBM MQ server. The server connection channel is the server end of the channel. Client connection.

How do I see how many connections I have in MQ?

The show mq-connections command shows connection information for queue managers.

  1. The name of the queue manager configuration.
  2. The total number of established connections by the queue manager.
  3. The maximum number of connections that the queue manager can establish.
  4. The number of idle connections.

What is the difference between MQ client and MQ Server?

The output from the call is sent back to the client, which passes it back to the application. An IBM MQ server is a queue manager that provides queuing services to one or more clients. All the IBM MQ objects, for example queues, exist only on the queue manager machine (the IBM MQ server machine), and not on the client.

What is WebSphere MQ client?

A WebSphere MQ MQI client is a component of the IBM® WebSphere MQ product that can be installed on a system on which no queue manager runs. Using an IBM WebSphere MQ MQI client, an application running on the same system as the client can connect to a queue manager that is running on another system.

What is MQ listener?

A listener is an IBM® MQ process that listens for connections to the queue manager. Each listener object in MQ Explorer represents a listener process; however, if you start a listener process from the command line, the listener is not represented by a listener object in MQ Explorer.

How do I identify MQ client connections and stop them?

MQ client applications can connect to a queue manager through a transport type of “client”, instead of “bindings”. WebSphere MQ runmqsc, MQ Explorer and SupportPac MS6B (chstat script) can be set to identify connections of this type, and stop them.

How can I tell if Windows MQ is running?

Do the following steps to check whether the MQ Client is already installed on a Windows system:

  1. Open the Registry Editor by clicking Start > Run and typing regedit .
  2. Expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry key.
  3. Expand the SOFTWARE registry key.
  4. Expand the IBM registry key.
  5. Expand the MQSERIES registry key.