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Running MQSC commands from text files

 

Running MQSC commands interactively is suitable for quick tests, but if you have very long commands, or are using a particular sequence of commands repeatedly, consider redirecting stdin from a text file. (See Standard input and output for information about stdin and stdout.) To do this, first create a text file containing the MQSC commands using your usual text editor. When you use the runmqsc command, use the redirection operators. For example, the following command runs a sequence of commands contained in the text file myprog.in:

runmqsc < myprog.in

Similarly, we can also redirect the output to a file. A file containing the MQSC commands for input is called an MQSC command file. The output file containing replies from the queue manager is called the output file.

To redirect both stdin and stdout on the runmqsc command, use this form of the command:

runmqsc < myprog.in > myprog.out

This command invokes the MQSC commands contained in the MQSC command file myprog.in. Because we have not specified a queue manager name, the MQSC commands run against the default queue manager. The output is sent to the text file myprog.out. Figure 1 shows an extract from the MQSC command file myprog.in and Figure 1 shows the corresponding extract of the output in myprog.out.

To redirect stdin and stdout on the runmqsc command, for a queue manager (saturn.queue.manager) that is not the default, use this form of the command:

runmqsc saturn.queue.manager < myprog.in > myprog.out

• MQSC command files
  

• MQSC command reports
  

• Running the supplied MQSC command files
  

• Using runmqsc to verify commands
  

 

Parent topic:

Performing local administration tasks using MQSC commands

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