How to send a message to another queue manager

This section describes the simplest way to send a message between queue managers, including prerequisites and authorizations required. Other methods can also be used to send messages to a remote queue manager.

Before you send a message from one queue manager to another, you need to do the following steps:

Check that your chosen communication protocol is available.
Start the queue managers.
Start the channel initiators.
Start the listeners.

You also need to have the correct IBM MQ security authorization to create the objects required.

To send messages from one queue manager to another:

Define the following objects on the source queue manager:
- Sender channel
- Remote queue definition
- Initiation queue ( required on z/OS®, otherwise optional)
- Transmission queue
- Dead-letter queue
Define the following objects on the target queue manager:
- Receiver channel
- Target queue
- Dead-letter queue

We can use several different methods to define these objects, depending on your IBM MQ platform:

On all platforms, we can use the IBM MQ script commands (MQSC) described in The MQSC commands the programmable command format (PCF) commands described in Automate administration tasks, or the IBM MQ Explorer.
On z/OS, we can also use the Operation and Control panels described in Administer IBM MQ for z/OS .
On IBM i, we can also use the panel interface.

See the following subtopics for more information on creating the components for sending messages to another queue manager: