WebSphereMQ Programming

Audience

This course is for experienced application developers who will be writing programs that use the messaging and queuing techniques provided by IBM's WebSphereMQ. Systems and Business analysts will also benefit.

Prerequisites

Prospective delegates are expected to be experienced application developers in the relevant environment.  No prior knowledge of WebSphereMQ is require before attending.

Duration

4 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

The course is delivered at V7 (previous release levels are available) and will enable delegates to develop the skills needed to design and write programs that issue calls to the Message Queue Interface (MQI). The hands on exercises will give delegates practice of coding WebSphereMQ calls in COBOL, PL1, RPG, C, C++, C#, .Net or Java. The operating system platform can be either Windows, Linux, UNIX, iSeries or z/OS using WebSphereMQ v7 (previous versions are available on request). The course is also ideal in preparing delegates for the IBM WebSphere MQ exams.

On completion of the course delegates will be able to:

• Describe and use the Message Queue Interface.
• Design and write programs to use MQI as implemented on their chosen platform.
• Explain the differences in program design necessitated by the messaging and queuing paradigm.
• Describe, in detail, the different MQI calls. 
• Explain the differences in MQI across the different WebSphereMQ platforms.
• Design and write programs that use the advanced features of the MQI including security, message groups, segmentation and distribution.

Course Content

Introduction to WebSphereMQ and Consolidation of Terms
The Big Picture
Queue Manager
Queues
Local queues
Model/Dynamic queues
Alias queues
Transmission queues
Remote queues
Initiation queues
Dead Letter Queue
Reply to queue
Repository Queue
Messages
Distribution List
Process Definition
Channels
Message Channel Agent
Message Queue Interface

Handling MQ objects (Platform dependant)
Mainframe
CSQUTIL
i/SERIES
MQEXPLORER
Creating a Queue Manager
Creating a Queue
Sending a message to your local default queue
To view what is on the queue
Useful Programs
Message Sets

Error Handling
Locally Determined Errors
Remotely Determined Errors
Debugging
Common Return Codes

Development & Testing

Triggers

Dead Letter Queue

Distribution/Name Lists & Clusters

Reports

Message Broker Overview

Java Messaging Services

JMS Concept
JMS Components
API’s

Accounting

Publish & Subscribe
Terms
Publish Applications
Subscribe Application
Sample Programs
Creating a Topic
Creating a Subscription
Alter a Subscription
Delete a Subscription
Display a Subscription
Topic Alias

MQCRTMH
MQSETMP
MQINQMP
MQDLTMP