6=Create
Use the Create option to display the Create channel panel.
Use the Create option, or enter the CRTMQMCHL command from the command line, to obtain the Create Channel panel. There are examples of Create Channel panels, starting at Figure 1.
With this panel, you create a channel definition from a screen of fields filled with default values supplied by IBM MQ for IBM i. Type the name of the channel, select the type of channel we are creating, and the communication method to be used.
When you press enter, the panel is displayed. Type information in all the required fields in this panel, and the remaining panels, and then save the definition by pressing enter.
The channel name must be the same at both ends of the channel, and unique within the network. However, we must restrict the characters used to those characters that are valid for IBM MQ for IBM i object names.
All panels have default values supplied by IBM MQ for IBM i for some fields. We can customize these values, or we can change them when we are creating or copying channels. To customize the values, see the IBM MQ for IBM i System Administration.
We can create your own set of channel default values by setting up dummy channels with the required defaults for each channel type, and copying them each time we want to create new channel definitions.
Parent topic: Work-with-channel choices on IBM i
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