Administer IBM MQ

To administer the IBM MQ queue managers and associated resources, choose your preferred method from a set of tasks used to activate and manage those resources.


We can administer IBM MQ objects locally or remotely:

    Local administration
    Local administration means carrying out administration tasks on any queue managers you have defined on your local system. We can access other systems, for example through the TCP/IP terminal emulation program telnet, and carry out administration there. In IBM MQ, we can consider this as local administration because no channels are involved, that is, the communication is managed by the operating system.

    Remote administration

    IBM MQ supports administration from a single point of contact through remote administration. Remote administration allows you to issue commands from your local system that are processed on another system and applies also to the IBM MQ Explorer. For example, we can issue a remote command to change a queue definition on a remote queue manager. You do not have to log on to that system, although you do need to have the appropriate channels defined. The queue manager and command server on the target system must be running.

    Some commands cannot be issued in this way, in particular, creating or starting queue managers and starting command servers. To perform this type of task, we must either log on to the remote system and issue the commands from there or create a process that can issue the commands for you. This restriction applies also to the IBM MQ Explorer.

There are a number of different methods used to create and administer your queue managers and their related resources in IBM MQ. These methods include command-line interfaces, graphical user interfaces, and an administration API.

There are different sets of commands used to administer IBM MQ depending on the platform:

There are also the other following options for creating and managing IBM MQ objects:

For information about the administration interfaces and options on IBM MQ for z/OS, see Administer IBM MQ for z/OS.

We can automate some administration and monitoring tasks for both local and remote queue managers by using PCF commands. These commands can also be simplified by using the IBM MQ Administration Interface (MQAI) on some platforms. For more information about automating administration tasks, see Automating IBM MQ administration using PCF commands.


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