Configure IBM MQ Explorer
Use this information to help you to configure the IBM MQ Explorer installation.
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We can customize the way that IBM MQ Explorer presents information to you, including the order of columns in tables and the objects that are displayed in the Content view. We can also customize a range of other preferences to suit the business needs. The availability of certain preferences depends on which plugins you have that are installed and enabled for IBM MQ Explorer.
Key settings can be configured in the Preferences dialog. To open the Preferences dialog: Click Window > Preferences. Other settings can be configured as per the information in the following table:
Type of setting Configuration task Where to find more information Authorization service Display object authority settings as text Display object authority settings as text Client connections Remote queue managers; specifying default values that are used to connect to remote queue managers Specify the default values used to connect to remote queue managers TLS Key Repositories; specifying the default location and default password of TLS certificates Specify the default location and default password of TLS certificates TLS Options; specifying default security preferences Default security preferences Security exit; configuring a default security exit Configure a default security exit User identification; enabling default user identification Users and groups (entities) in the authorization service Display settings Change the colors Change the colors Defining schemes and filters from the relevant content view Filtering the objects displayed in the Content view Set the order of columns in tables and the objects that are displayed Change the order of columns in tables Change the refresh frequency of queue manager information Change the refresh frequency of queue manager information Display object authority settings as text Display object authority settings as text Enable Plug-ins Enable installed plug-ins Enable installed plug-ins Managed File Transfer Configure managed file transfer Configure Managed File Transfer preferences Messages Configure messages Configure message preferences Passwords Set password preferences Passwords preferences Telemetry Configure telemetry channels Telemetry channels Tests Including hidden queue managers in test configurations Including hidden queue managers in test configurations Including SYSTEM objects when you run tests Including SYSTEM objects when you run tests We can export and import the customizations that you make in IBM MQ Explorer. For more information, see Exporting and importing settings in MQ Explorer.
- Filtering the objects displayed in tables
When object data is displayed in IBM MQ Explorer in tables, we can filter the data so that only the objects in which we are interested are displayed.- Create and configure a service definition
The IBM MQ Service Definition specification provides a standard for documenting IBM MQ applications as services, using WSDL and URIs.- Create and configure a queue manager set
Queue manager sets enable you to group queue managers in folders, and enable you to make actions to all the queue managers in the set. This enables you to subdivide your queue managers, for example into 'test' and 'production' sets, or into sets based on the operating system of the platform.- Define schemes to change the order of columns in tables
When object data is displayed in IBM MQ Explorer in tables, we can customized the order of the columns in the tables.- Change the colors
We can change the colors that are used to highlight parts of the IBM MQ Explorer interface.- Enable installed plug-ins
If a new plug-in that you install in IBM MQ Explorer is not enabled by default, we can enable it by using the Preferences dialog.- Change the refresh frequency of queue manager information
In IBM MQ Explorer, the information about local and remote queue managers is automatically refreshed at set intervals. We can change the refresh frequency for a specific queue manager, or the default refresh frequency for all new queue managers. We can also prevent a specific queue manager's information from being refreshed automatically.- Specify the default values used to connect to remote queue managers
We can either configure IBM MQ Explorer with the default values directly, or configure IBM MQ Explorer to use system environment value variables.- Exporting and importing settings
We can export your settings from IBM MQ Explorer for backup purposes, or to transfer and import the settings into another instance of IBM MQ Explorer.- Including SYSTEM objects when you run tests
By default, SYSTEM objects are not included in test results, but we can choose to include them if required.- Including hidden queue managers in test configurations
Queue managers that are hidden in IBM MQ Explorer do not by default appear in the list of available objects when you create new test configurations. However, we can choose to have hidden queue managers included so that they listed as available queue managers against which we can run tests.- Display object authority settings as text
In IBM MQ Explorer dialogs, object authorities are displayed as icons by default, but we can choose to have them displayed as text instead.Parent topic: Introduction to IBM MQ Explorer
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