Configure MFT network queue managers

If your Managed File Transfer network includes more than one IBM MQ queue manager, these IBM MQ queue managers must be able to remotely communicate with each other.

There are two ways to configure your queue managers to be able to communicate with each other:

By setting up an IBM MQ queue manager cluster.
For information about IBM MQ queue manager clusters and how to configure them, see Configure a queue manager cluster.
By setting up channels between the queue managers, which is described as follows:

Set up channels between queue managers

Set up the following message channels between your queue managers:

From the agent queue manager to the coordination queue manager
From the command queue manager to the agent queue manager.
From the agent queue manager to the command queue manager (to enable feedback messages to be shown by the commands).
From the command queue manager to the coordination queue manager
From the agent queue manager to any other agent queue manager in the Managed File Transfer network

If you need further information about how to set up this communication, start with this information: Administer remote IBM MQ objects using MQSC.

Some suggested example steps are:

Procedure

Create a transmission queue on the IBM MQ queue manager with the same name as the coordination queue manager. We can use the following MQSC command:
```
DEFINE QLOCAL(coordination-qmgr-name) USAGE(XMITQ)
```
On the IBM MQ queue manager, create a sender channel to the Managed File Transfer coordination queue manager. The name of the transmission queue created in the previous step is a required parameter for this channel. If communication with Managed File Transfer Version 7.5 or Managed File Transfer agents is required, ensure the CONVERT parameter of the sender channel is set to no. (Earlier versions of IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition always published messages in UTF-8 format, which means that any data conversion corrupts the message. This is not necessary for agents on Managed File Transfer Version 8.0 or later, as messages are published with a blank format.) We can use the following MQSC command:
```
DEFINE CHANNEL(channel-name) CHLTYPE(SDR) CONNAME('coordination-qmgr-host(coordination-qmgr-port)') 
 XMITQ(coordination-qmgr-name) CONVERT(NO)
```
Note: Set CONVERT(NO), only if required.
On the Managed File Transfer coordination queue manager, create a receiver channel to the IBM MQ queue manager. Give this receiver channel the same name as the sender channel on the IBM MQ queue manager. We can use the following MQSC command:
```
DEFINE CHANNEL(channel-name) CHLTYPE(RCVR)
```

What to do next

Next, follow the configuration steps for your coordination queue manager: Configure the coordination queue manager.