WebSphere MQ Admin (Administration) Online Training

Message Queue is an IBM Websphere product, Its task is to transport the data from one point to other. MQ administration consists of a different types of tools to perform different tasks. Performing a task depends on the whether you’re in the production or development environment. It’s platform independent, it supports more than 35 plus OS and for each OS there is different MQ software. Its enable an application to application communication facility irrespective of the place it resides. It transforms data in an efficient manner, but it doesn’t have any information regarding the content of the message. It consists of a standardized application interface that supports various programming languages.

COURSE SUMMARY

• Understand the complete view about the components of Websphere MQ.
• To understand the overall ideology of Websphere MQ.
• To understand the network deployment scenario.
• Know the key elements of Websphere MQ administration upon Z/OS.
• Installation and configuration of Websphere MQ.
• To explore messaging options in Websphere MQ.
• Working with embedded messaging scenarios.
• Also to find out the Websphere MQ and SSL product scenarios.

Prerequisites: Basic Knowledge of Websphere MQ Administration Tasks in a Distributed Environment, Basic Knowledge of TCP/IP Networking

MODULE 1: WEBSPHERE MESSAGE QUEUE 7.5 INTRODUCTION

TOPICS: What is Message Queue?, Types of Messages, What is a Message and Queue, Synchronous Vs Asynchronous, Message Access, Character Sets, Heterogeneous Systems, Messaging Models, Scalability, Transactions, High Availability

MODULE 2: INSTALLATION

TOPICS: Installation Overview, Product Directory Structure, Creating Users and Groups, Installing Server, Disk Space Requirements, Uninstalling Server, Supports Pacs

MODULE 3: QUEUE MANAGER

TOPICS: Creating Queue Manager, Stopping Queue Manager, Starting Queue Manager, Displaying Queue Manager Status, Deleting Queue Manager, Automatic Startup, Queue Manager Properties, Communicating Between Queue Manager

MODULE 4: QUEUE

TOPICS: Local Queue, Remote Queue, Transmission Queue, Model Queue, Queue Default Options, Alias Queue

MODULE 5: CHANNELS, LISTENERS & BINDINGS

TOPICS: Types of Channels, Listeners, Channel Triggering, Channel Pairing

MODULE 6: CLUSTERING

TOPICS: Advantages of Clustering, Clustering Best Practices, Cluster Repository, Remove Cluster Queue Manager from Cluster, Sending Message to a Cluster Queue, Cluster Work Load Balancing, High Availability Cluster

MODULE 7: PUBLISH SUBSCRIBE

TOPICS: Publication, Subscription Types, Local Publish Subscribe, Publish Subscribe Features, Distributed Publish Subscribe

MODULE 8: SECURITY

TOPICS: Security Objectives, General Security Principals, Achieving Security Objectives Thru WMQ, Channel Security With SSL, Channel Security With Channel Exits, Channel Authority Records

MODULE 9: CLIENT

TOPICS: Why MQ Client, MQ Channel Definition Table, MQ Client Configurations

MODULE 10: RESTORE, BACKUP, LOGGING AND TROUBLESHOOTING

TOPICS: Logging Configuration, Log Sizing, Types of Logging, Troubleshooting Steps, Log Archiving, Checkpoint Recovery, Backing Up MQ Configuration and Data