Quiescing MQSeries for AS/400 V5.2 and WebSphere MQ for iSeries systems

To quiesce MQSeries for AS/400 V5.2 and WebSphere MQ for iSeries systems:

  1. Sign on to a new interactive MQSeries for AS/400 or WebSphere MQ for iSeries session, ensuring that you are not accessing any objects.

  2. Ensure that you have:

    • *ALLOBJ authority , or object management authority for the QMQM library

    • Sufficient authority to use the ENDSBS command

  3. Advise all users that you are going to stop MQSeries for AS/400.

  4. How you then proceed depends on whether you want to shut down (quiesce) a single queue manager (where others might exist) (see Shutting down a single queue manager) or all the queue managers (see Shutting down all queue managers).