Acquiring information from trace-route reply messages

To acquire activity information you locate the trace-route reply message. Then you retrieve the message and analyze the activity information.

We can acquire activity information from a trace-route reply message only if you know the location of the trace-route reply message. Locate the message and process the activity information as follows:

Procedure

1. Check the reply-to queue that was specified in the message descriptor of the trace-route message. If the trace-route reply message is not on the reply-to queue, check the following locations:
   • The local system queue, SYSTEM.ADMIN.TRACE.ROUTE.QUEUE, on the target queue manager of the trace-route message
   • The common queue, if you have set up a common queue for trace-route reply messages
   • The local system queue, SYSTEM.ADMIN.TRACE.ROUTE.QUEUE, on any other queue manager in the queue manager network, which can occur if the trace-route message has been put to a dead-letter queue, or the maximum number of activities was exceeded

2. Retrieve the trace-route reply message
3. Use the IBM MQ display route application to display the recorded activity information
4. Study the activity information and obtain the information that we need

Parent topic: Acquiring and using recorded information