Checking the queue when the current depth is not increasing

Even if the current depth of your queue is not increasing, it might still be useful to monitor the queue to check whether our application is processing messages correctly.

About this task

To gather performance data about the queue: Issue the following command periodically:

Procedure

Issue the following command periodically:

DISPLAY QSTATUS(Q1) TYPE(QUEUE) MSGAGE QTIME

In the output, if the value in MSGAGE increases over the period of time, and our application is designed to process all messages, this might indicate that some messages are not being processed at all.