This course provides the skills that are necessary to configure and manage an IBM MQ V8 queue manager on z/OS.

Through lectures and hands-on lab exercises, you learn how to install, customize, operate, and administer IBM MQ V8. The course covers configuring a z/OS queue manager, setting up distributed queuing, IBM MQ clustering, IBM MQ on z/OS recovery and restart, security, and performance considerations. It also covers day-to-day administration and problem recovery. The hands-on lab exercises give you direct experience with IBM MQ V8 tasks such as defining and monitoring channels, configuring IBM MQ clusters, and problem determination activities.

• Describe message-oriented middleware and the capabilities it must provide
• Identify the key components of IBM MQ for z/OS
• Summarize the responsibilities of the IBM MQ administrator
• Configure IBM MQ IBM V8 for z/OS
• Enable IBM MQ for z/OS eight-byte RBA and buffers above 2 GB
• Demonstrate how to create and change queues and place and retrieve messages from a queue
• Define and demonstrate how to set up and work with distributed queuing
• Differentiate between an IBM MQ queue manager and an IBM MQ client
• Describe and demonstrate how to set up an IBM MQ cluster
• Contrast point-to-point and publish/subscribe messaging styles
• Describe shared queues and queue sharing groups
• Summarize IBM MQ for z/OS recovery and restart activities
• Demonstrate how to use IBM MQ events for monitoring
• Summarize performance considerations
• Describe security considerations for IBM MQ for z/OS
• Describe and implement connection authentication and channel authentication
• Identify correct problem determination techniques for IBM MQ for z/OS
• Summarize basic use and configuration of IBM MQ Managed File Transfer
• Describe IBM MQ support for CICS and IMS interfaces

This intermediate course is designed for technical support personnel who implement, operate, and perform day-to-day administration of IBM MQ V8 on z/OS.

You should have:

• Basic knowledge of IBM MQ V8 concepts, obtained through experience or by successfully completing course Technical Introduction to IBM MQ (WM103G)
• Working proficiency with the z/OS platform, obtained through experience or by successfully completing course Fundamental System Skills in z/OS (ES10G)

Knowledge of TCP/IP is also helpful.

• Course introduction
• IBM MQ review
• IBM MQ architecture, installation, and configuration
• Exercise: Configuring an IBM MQ for z/OS queue manager
• IBM MQ for z/OS administrative interface options
• Exercise: Working with queues
• Distributed queuing
• Exercise: Working with channels
• IBM MQ clients
• Exercise: Working with IBM MQ clients
• IBM MQ cluster basics
• Exercise: Working with IBM MQ clusters
• Publish/subscribe basics
• Exercise: Publish/subscribe basics
• Queue sharing groups
• Using IBM MQ events and the dead-letter queue utility
• Exercise: Working with IBM MQ events
• Security considerations
• Exercise: Security
• Problem determination
• IBM MQ Managed File Transfer
• Exercise: IBM MQ Managed File Transfer configuration for z/OS
• IBM MQ for z/OS backup, recovery, and related file tasks
• Exercise: Working with file handling utilities
• Support for CICS, IMS, and HTTP applications
• Course summary