Object types

Many of the administration tasks involve manipulating various types of IBM MQ objects.

For information about naming IBM MQ objects, see Naming IBM MQ objects.

For information about the default objects created on a queue manager, see System default objects.

For information about the different types of IBM MQ objects, see the following subtopics:

  • Queues
    Introduction to IBM MQ queues and queue attributes.
  • IBM MQ queue managers
    An introduction to queue managers and the queuing services that they provide to applications.
  • Process definitions
    Process definition objects allow applications to be started without the need for operator intervention by defining the attributes of the application for use by the queue manager.
  • Namelists
    A namelist is an IBM MQ object that contains a list of cluster names, queue names or authentication information object names. In a cluster, it can be used to identify a list of clusters for which the queue manager holds the repositories.
  • Authentication information objects
    An authentication information object provides the definitions required to perform certificate revocation checking.
  • Communication information objects
    IBM MQ Multicast offers low latency, high fanout, reliable multicast messaging. A communication information (COMMINFO) object is needed to use Multicast transmission.
  • Channels
    A channel is a logical communication link, used by distributed queue managers, between an IBM MQ MQI client and an IBM MQ server, or between two IBM MQ servers.
  • Communications
    IBM MQ MQI clients use MQI channels to communicate with the server.
  • Client connection channels
    Client connection channels are objects that provide a communication path from an IBM MQ MQI client to a queue manager.
  • Storage classes
    A storage class maps one or more queues to a page set.
  • Listeners
    Listeners are processes that accept network requests from other queue managers, or client applications, and start associated channels.
  • Services
    Service objects are a way of defining programs to be run when a queue manager starts or stops.
  • Topic objects
    A topic object is an IBM MQ object that allows you to assign specific, non-default attributes to topics.

Parent topic: IBM MQ objects


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