Objects

Many of the tasks described in this book involve manipulating WebSphere MQ objects.

In WebSphere MQ, the object types include queue managers, queues, process definitions, namelists, channels, client connection channels, listeners, services, and authentication information objects.

The manipulation or administration of objects includes:

• Starting and stopping queue managers.

• Creating objects, particularly queues, for applications.

• Working with channels to create communication paths to queue managers on other (remote) systems. This is described in detail in WebSphere MQ Intercommunication.

• Creating clusters of queue managers to simplify the overall administration process, or to achieve workload balancing. This is described in detail in WebSphere MQ Queue Manager Clusters.

This book contains detailed information about administration in the following chapters:

• Managing WebSphere MQ for iSeries using CL commands

• Alternative ways of administering WebSphere MQ

We can also administer WebSphere MQ for iSeries from a Windows or Linux (x86 platform) machine using the WebSphere MQ Explorer.