More on passing arguments

This example shows how to define a server service object to start a program called runserv when a queue manager is started.

This example is written with Windows style path separator characters.

One of the arguments that is to be passed to the starting program is a string containing a space. This argument needs to be passed as a single string. To achieve this, double quotation marks are used as shown in the following command to define the command service object:

1. The server service object is defined, using the DEFINE SERVICE MQSC command:

   DEFINE SERVICE(S1) SERVTYPE(SERVER) CONTROL(QMGR) +
   STARTCMD('C:\Program Files\Tools\runserv.exe') +
   STARTARG('-m +QMNAME+ -d "C:\Program Files\Tools\"') +
   STDOUT('C:\Program Files\Tools\+MQ_SERVICE_NAME+.out')
   
   
   DEFINE SERVICE(S4) +
   CONTROL(QMGR) +
   SERVTYPE(SERVER) +
   STARTCMD('C:\Program Files\Tools\runserv.exe') +
   STARTARG('-m +QMNAME+ -d "C:\Program Files\Tools\"') +
   STDOUT('C:\Program Files\Tools\+MQ_SERVICE_NAME+.out')
   

   Where:
   • +QMNAME+ is a token representing the name of the queue manager.
   • C:\Program Files\Tools\ is a string containing a space, which will be passed as a single string.