Controlling the IMS bridge

 

This chapter describes how to control the IMS bridge. It discusses the following topics:

• Starting and stopping the IMS bridge

• Controlling IMS connections

• Controlling bridge queues

• Resynchronizing the IMS bridge

• Delete messages from IMS

• Delete Tpipes

There are no WebSphere MQ commands to control the WebSphere MQ-IMS bridge. However, we can stop messages being delivered to IMS in the following ways:

• For non-shared queues, by using the ALTER QLOCAL(xxx) GET(DISABLED) command for all bridge queues.

• For clustered queues, by using the SUSPEND QMGR CLUSTER(xxx) command. This is only effective when another queue manager is also hosting the clustered bridge queue.

• For clustered queues, by using the SUSPEND QMGR FACILITY(IMSBRIDGE) command. No further messages are sent to IMS, but the responses for any outstanding transactions are received from IMS.

  To start sending messages to IMS again, issue the RESUME QMGR FACILITY(IMSBRIDGE) command.

See WebSphere MQ Script (MQSC) Command Reference for details of these commands.