WebSphere MQ for z/OS concepts
- Shared queues and queue-sharing groups
- What is a shared queue?
- Any queue manager can access messages
- Queue definition shared by all queue managers
- What is a queue-sharing group?
- Where are shared queue messages held?
- The Coupling Facility
- The CF structure object
- Backup and recovery
- Advantages of using shared queues
- High availability
- Peer recovery
- Distributed queuing and queue-sharing groups
- Shared channels
- Shared inbound channels
- Shared outbound channels
- Shared channel summary
- Shared channel status
- Intra-group queuing
- Clusters and queue-sharing groups
- Where to find more information
- Storage management
- Page sets
- Storage classes
- How storage classes work
- Buffers and buffer pools
- Where to find more information
- Logging
- What logs are
- Archiving
- Dual logging
- Log shunting
- Log data
- Unit-of-recovery log records
- Checkpoint records
- Page set control records
- CF structure backup records
- How the log is structured
- Physical and logical log records
- How the logs are written
- When the active log is written
- Dynamically adding log data sets
- When the archive log is written
- Triggering an off-load
- The off-load process
- Interruptions and errors while off-loading
- Messages during off-load
- WebSphere MQ and SMS
- What the bootstrap data set is for
- Archive log data sets and BSDS copies
- Where to find more information
- Defining your system
- Set system parameters
- Defining system objects
- System default objects
- System command objects
- System administration objects
- Channel queues
- Cluster queues
- Queue-sharing group queues
- Storage classes
- Dead-letter queue
- Default transmission queue
- Pending data queue
- Tuning your queue manager
- Syncpoints
- Expired messages
- Sample definitions supplied with WebSphere MQ
- The CSQINP1 samples
- CSQ4INSG system object sample
- CSQ4INSS system object sample
- CSQ4INSX system object sample
- CSQ4INSJ system JMS object sample
- CSQ4INSR object sample
- CSQ4INYD object sample
- CSQ4INYC object sample
- CSQ4INYG object sample
- Default transmission queue
- CICS adapter objects
- CSQ4INYS/CSQ4NQR object samples
- CSQ4DISP display sample
- CSQ4INPX sample
- CSQ4IVPQ and CSQ4IVPG samples
- Where to find more information
- Recovery and restart
- How changes are made to data
- Units of recovery
- Backing out work
- How consistency is maintained
- Consistency with CICS or IMS
- Illustration of the two-phase commit process
- How consistency is maintained after an abnormal termination
- What happens during termination
- Normal termination
- Abnormal termination
- What happens during restart and recovery
- Understanding the log range required for recovery
- Determining which application has a long running unit of work
- Rebuilding queue indexes
- How in-doubt units of recovery are resolved
- How in-doubt units of recovery are resolved from CICS
- How in-doubt units of recovery are resolved from IMS
- How in-doubt units of recovery are resolved from RRS
- Shared queue recovery
- Transactional recovery
- Peer recovery
- Shared queue definitions
- Logging
- Coupling Facility failure
- Where to find more information
- Security
- Why we need to protect WebSphere MQ resources
- If you do nothing
- Security controls and options
- Subsystem security
- Queue manager or queue-sharing group level checking
- Controlling the number of user IDs checked
- Resources we can protect
- Connection security
- API-resource security
- Queue security
- Process security
- Namelist security
- Alternate user security
- Context security
- Command security
- Command resource security
- Channel security
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Where to find more information
- Availability
- Sysplex considerations
- Shared queues
- Shared channels
- WebSphere MQ network availability
- Using the z/OS Automatic Restart Manager (ARM)
- Using the z/OS Extended Recovery Facility (XRF)
- Where to find more information
- Commands
- Issuing commands
- Private and global definitions
- Manipulating global definitions
- Directing commands to different queue managers
- Command summary
- Initialization commands
- Initialization commands for distributed queuing
- The WebSphere MQ for z/OS utilities
- The CSQUTIL utility
- The data conversion exit utility
- The change log inventory utility
- The print log map utility
- The log print utility
- The queue-sharing group utility
- The active log preformat utility
- The dead-letter queue handler utility
- Where to find more information
- Monitoring and statistics
- Online monitoring
- WebSphere MQ trace
- Events
- Where to find more information