CSQUTIL utility for IBM MQ for z/OS

The CSQUTIL utility program is provided with IBM MQ for z/OS® to help you perform backup, restoration, and reorganization tasks, and to issue commands and process object definitions.

For more information about the CSQUTIL utility program, see IBM MQ utility program (CSQUTIL). By using this utility program, we can invoke the following functions:

COMMAND

To issue MQSC commands, to record object definitions, and to make client-channel definition files.

COPY

To read the contents of a named IBM MQ for z/OS message queue or the contents of all the queues of a named page set, and put them into a sequential file and retain the original queue.

COPYPAGE

To copy whole page sets to larger page sets.

EMPTY

To delete the contents of a named IBM MQ for z/OS message queue or the contents of all the queues of a named page set, retaining the definitions of the queues.

FORMAT

To format IBM MQ for z/OS page sets.

LOAD

To restore the contents of a named IBM MQ for z/OS message queue or the contents of all the queues of a named page set from a sequential file created by the COPY function.

PAGEINFO

To extract page set information from one or more page sets.

RESETPAGE

To copy whole page sets to other page set data sets and reset the log information in the copy.

SCOPY

To copy the contents of a queue to a data set while the queue manager is offline.

SDEFS

To produce a set of define commands for objects while the queue manager is offline.

SLOAD

To restore messages from the destination data set of an earlier COPY or SCOPY operation. SLOAD processes a single queue.

SWITCH

To switch or query the transmission queue associated with cluster-sender channels.

XPARM

To convert a channel initiator parameter load module into queue manager attributes (for migration purposes).