Circumstances where activity information is not acquired

To determine the complete sequence of activities performed on behalf of a message, information related to every activity must be acquired. If the information relating to any activity has not been recorded, or has not been acquired, we can determine only a partial sequence of activities.

Activity information is not recorded in the following circumstances:

• The message is processed by an IBM MQ queue manager earlier than Version 6.0.
• The message is processed by a queue manager that is not enabled for activity recording.
• The application that expected to process the message is not running.

Recorded activity information is unable to reach the specified reply-to queue in the following circumstances:

• There is no channel defined to route activity reports to the reply-to queue.
• The channel to route activity reports to the reply-to queue is not running.
• The remote queue definition to route activity reports back to the queue manager where the reply-to queue resides (the queue manager alias), is not defined.
• The user that generated the original message does not have open, or put, authority to the queue manager alias.
• The user that generated the original message does not have open, or put, authority to the reply-to queue.
• The reply-to queue is put inhibited.

Recorded activity information is unable to reach the system queue, or a common queue, in the following circumstances:

• If a common queue is to be used and there is no channel defined to route activity reports to the common queue.
• If a common queue is to be used and the channel to route activity reports to the common queue is not running.
• If a common queue is to be used and the system queue is incorrectly defined.
• The user that generated the original message does not have open, or put, authority to the system queue.
• The system queue is put inhibited.
• If a common queue is to be used and the user that generated the original message does not have open, or put, authority to the common queue.
• If a common queue is to be used and the common queue is put inhibited.

In these circumstances, providing the activity report does not have the report option MQRO_DISCARD_MSG specified, the activity report can be retrieved from a dead letter queue if one was defined on the queue manager where the activity report was rejected. An activity report will only have this report option specified if the original message, from which the activity report was generated, had both MQRO_PASS_DISCARD_AND_EXPIRY and MQRO_DISCARD_MSG specified in the Report field of the message descriptor. Parent topic: Activity recording