Migrating Managed File Transfer agents from an earlier version

Agents migrated from versions of IBM MQ prior to IBM MQ Version 9.1.4 run as non highly available. We can make them run in high availability mode by carrying out the following procedure.

Procedure

1. Create the SYSTEM.FTE.HA.<agent name> queue in the agent queue manager using the following sample definition:

   DEFINE QLOCAL(SYSTEM.FTE.HA.SRC) +
    DEFPRTY(0) +
    DEFSOPT(SHARED) +
    GET(ENABLED) +
    MAXDEPTH(0) +
    MAXMSGL(0) +
    MSGDLVSQ(PRIORITY) +
    PUT(ENABLED) +
    RETINTVL(999999999) +
    SHARE +
    NOTRIGGER +
    USAGE(NORMAL) +
    REPLACE
   

2. Provide the required authorities on the queue for the agent to open the queue for GET.
3. Create a replica of the agent configuration on another machine
4. Add the highlyAvailable property, and set the property to true, in the agent.properties file for both agent configurations.

Parent topic: Migrating IBM MQ Managed File Transfer

Related information

• Maintenance in highly available agents