API exits

For a server, use the Exits queue manager properties page from the IBM MQ Explorer, or the ApiExitLocal stanza in the qm.ini file to identify API exit routines for a queue manager. For a client modify the ApiExitLocal stanza in the mqclient.ini file to identify API exit routines for a queue manager.

On Windows systems, we can also use the amqmdain command to change the entries for API exits. (To identify API exit routines for all queue managers, we use the ApiExitCommon and ApiExitTemplate stanzas, as described in API exits.)

Note, that for the API exit to work correctly, the message from the server must be sent to the client unconverted. After the API exit has processed the message, the message must then be converted on the client. This, therefore, requires that we have installed all conversion exits on the client.

For a complete description of the attributes for these stanzas, see Configure API exits.