Preferences for IBM MQ Explorer

Use this information to help you to configure the IBM MQ Explorer installation.

We can customize the way that IBM MQ Explorer presents information to you, including the order of columns in tables and the objects that are displayed in the Content view. We can also customize a range of other preferences to suit the business needs. The availability of certain preferences depends on which plugins you have that are installed and enabled for IBM MQ Explorer.

Key settings can be configured in the Preferences dialog. To open the Preferences dialog: Click Window > Preferences. Other settings can be configured as per the information in the following table:

Type of setting	Configuration task	Where to find more information
Authorization service	Display object authority settings as text	Display object authority settings as text
Client connections	Remote queue managers; specifying default values that are used to connect to remote queue managers	Specify the default values used to connect to remote queue managers
	TLS Key Repositories; specifying the default location and default password of TLS certificates	Specify the default location and default password of TLS certificates
	TLS Options; specifying default security preferences	Default security preferences
	Security exit; configuring a default security exit	Configure a default security exit
	User identification; enabling default user identification	Users and groups (entities) in the authorization service
Display settings	Change the colors	Change the colors
	Defining schemes and filters from the relevant content view	Filtering the objects displayed in the Content view
	Set the order of columns in tables and the objects that are displayed	Change the order of columns in tables
	Change the refresh frequency of queue manager information	Change the refresh frequency of queue manager information
	Display object authority settings as text	Display object authority settings as text
Enable Plug-ins	Enable installed plug-ins	Enable installed plug-ins
Managed File Transfer	Configure managed file transfer	Configure Managed File Transfer preferences
Messages	Configure messages	Configure message preferences
Passwords	Set password preferences	Passwords preferences
Telemetry	Configure telemetry channels	Telemetry channels
Tests	Including hidden queue managers in test configurations	Including hidden queue managers in test configurations
	Including SYSTEM objects when you run tests	Including SYSTEM objects when you run tests

• Filtering the objects displayed in tables
  When object data is displayed in IBM MQ Explorer in tables, we can filter the data so that only the objects in which we are interested are displayed.
• Define schemes to change the order of columns in tables
  When object data is displayed in IBM MQ Explorer in tables, we can customized the order of the columns in the tables.
• Change the refresh frequency of queue manager information
  In IBM MQ Explorer, the information about local and remote queue managers is automatically refreshed at set intervals. We can change the refresh frequency for a specific queue manager, or the default refresh frequency for all new queue managers. We can also prevent a specific queue manager's information from being refreshed automatically.
• Display object authority settings as text
  In IBM MQ Explorer dialogs, object authorities are displayed as icons by default, but we can choose to have them displayed as text instead.
• Change the colors
  We can change the colors that are used to highlight parts of the IBM MQ Explorer interface.
• Enable installed plug-ins
  If a new plug-in that you install in IBM MQ Explorer is not enabled by default, we can enable it by using the Preferences dialog.
• Configure Managed File Transfer preferences
  The Managed File Transfer preferences that we can configure in IBM MQ Explorer include general preferences and the default global configuration type. We can also select the level of functional fix pack behavior that we want to enable.
• Configure message preferences
  We can configure browsing limits and set how message properties are displayed.
• User identification
  The user identification for all queue managers in a set can be changed. The user identification can be overridden when you add a new remote queue manager.
• Passwords preferences
  We can store passwords to a file so that we do not have to enter them every time we want to connect to resources.
• Default security preferences
  A security exit can be defined for all client connections in the same IBM MQ Explorer. This is known as a default security exit and the preferences for the security exit are described here.
• Configure a default security exit
  A security exit can be defined for all client connections in the same IBM MQ Explorer. This is known as a default security exit.
• Specify the default location and default password of TLS certificates
  We can configure IBM MQ Explorer to use TLS certificates in the TrustStore and KeyStore to connect to remote queue managers with an TLS-enabled connection.
• Telemetry channels
  A Telemetry channel is a communication link between a queue manager on IBM MQ, and MQTT clients. Each channel might have one or more telemetry devices connected to it.
• Including hidden queue managers in test configurations
  Queue managers that are hidden in IBM MQ Explorer do not by default appear in the list of available objects when you create new test configurations. However, we can choose to have hidden queue managers included so that they listed as available queue managers against which we can run tests.
• Including SYSTEM objects when you run tests
  By default, SYSTEM objects are not included in test results, but we can choose to include them if required.

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