Hiding queue managers

We can hide from view any queue manager that is displayed in the Navigator view. If you hide a queue manager that is a member of one or more queue manager Sets, the queue manager is not displayed in any of those Sets.

About this task

Hiding queue managers enables you to restrict the queue managers that are displayed in the Queue Managers folder if you have been working with many queue managers in IBM MQ Explorer.

To hide queue managers, complete any of the following steps:

1. Hide queue managers using Navigator: Method 1.
2. Hide queue managers using Navigator: Method 2.
3. Hide queue managers using Sets.

Procedure

• [OPTION 1] Hide queue managers using Navigator: Method 1.
  1. In the Navigator view, select a queue manager. Hold down the Ctrl key to select more than one queue manager.
  2. To hide the selected queue managers, right-click then choose Hide.

  The selected queue managers are no longer displayed in the Queue Managers folder. If the queue managers you have hidden are members of one or more queue manager Sets, then those queue managers are not displayed in those Sets.

• [OPTION 2] Hide queue managers using Navigator: Method 2.
  1. In the Navigator view, right-click the Queue Managers folder, then click Show/Hide Queue Managers. The Show/Hide Queue Managers dialog opens. A list of the visible queue managers is displayed in the Shown Queue Managers table of the Show/Hide Queue Managers dialog.
  2. In the Shown Queue Managers table, select one or more queue managers then click Hide. The selected queue managers are now listed in the Hidden Queue Managers table.
  3. Click Close.

  The selected queue managers are no longer displayed in the Queue Managers folder. If the queue managers you have hidden are members of one or more queue manager Sets, then those queue managers are not displayed in those Sets.

• [OPTION 3] Hide queue managers using Sets.

  We can also hide from view any queue managers that are grouped in a queue manager Set. This enables you to restrict the queue managers that are displayed in the Set and Queue Managers folder if you have been working with many queue managers in IBM MQ Explorer.

  Before we can hide all the queue managers in a Set, we must complete the following steps:
  1. We must display the queue manager sets as described in Display queue manager sets.
  2. We must define a set for the queue managers as described in Defining manual sets or Defining automatic sets.
  1. In the Navigator view, right-click the Set, then click Hide All Queue Managers.

  The queue managers in the set are no longer displayed in the Set folder.

  When you hide the queue managers in a Set, the queue managers are then hidden in every Set (including the All Set) not just the Set you selected.

Parent topic: Show or hide a queue manager

Related tasks

• Showing hidden queue managers
• Removing a queue manager