WebSphere MQ For z/OS System Administration

Course:  MQ20
Duration:  4 Days
Level:  II
Course Summary

This course intended for personnel who will be responsible for installing, operating, administering and supporting WebSphere MQ systems and applications relating to those systems on z/OS platforms.

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Topics Covered In This Course

WebSphere MQ Review

  • Pgm-to-pgm comms
  • Why WMQ
  • Synchronous model
  • Asynchronous model
  • Time independence
  • Pgm independence
  • Parallel processing
  • Distributed systems
  • The MQI
  • Assured msg delivery
  • Network "decoupling"
  • Queue managers
  • Queues
  • Messages
  • Installation & Config
  • Integrating MQ-z/OS
  • Page datasets
  • Defining the Log(s)
  • The BSDS(s)
  • Storage Classes
  • Verifying installation
  • Starting the QMGR
  • The ZPARM Module
  • Stopping the QMGR

Single System Administration

  • Queue types
  • Queue Locals
  • Queue Alias's
  • Queue Models
  • Dynamic queues
  • Message types
  • Message structure
  • Message persistence
  • Msg/Correl id's
  • Message expiry
  • Message delivery seq.
  • Message priority
  • Data conversion

The MQI & Triggering

  • MQCONN MQCONNX
  • MQDISC
  • MQOPEN
  • MQCLOSE
  • MQPUT
  • MQGET
  • MQPUT1
  • MQBEGIN
  • MQBACK
  • MQCMIT
  • MQINQ
  • MQSET
  • Triggering overview
  • Trigger parameters
  • Trigger events
  • The initiation queue
  • The trigger message
  • Trigger monitors

Intercommunication

  • DQM components
  • Queue Remotes
  • Transmission queues
  • Dead letter queue
  • Channels / MCA types
  • Assured msg delivery
  • Msg sequence no's
  • CHINIT addr space
  • Start channel
  • Stop Channel
  • WQM listeners
  • Multi hopping
  • Queue Mgr aliases
  • Data conversion
  • Channel compression
  • Clusters
  • Cluster objects
  • Cluster channels
  • Repositories
  • Workload balancing
  • Queue replication

Integrity, Restart & Recovery

  • Message persistence
  • The WMQ Log
  • Log archives
  • The BSDS
  • The PARM module
  • QMGR restart
  • Backup & recovery
  • Pageset recovery
  • Media Failure Conditional restart
  • System checkpoints

Security

  • RACF
  • Preparing for security
  • Local security
  • Enabling / disabling
  • WMQ RACF classes
  • WMQ RACF profiles
  • Switch profiles
  • Distributed security
  • Secure Sockets Layer

Queue Sharing Groups

  • Cluster limitations
  • The Sysplex
  • The coupling facility
  • Setting up a QSG
  • CF list structures
  • QSG advantages
  • Shared channels

Troubleshooting

  • Event generation
  • The DLQ
  • DLQ handler

CICS & IMS Support

  • CICS/IMS Adapters
  • CICS/IMS Bridges

WebSphere MQ Clients

  • Why clients
  • MQI channels
  • System variables
  • Client Channel Table
Who Should Take This Course

Technical personnel such as systems programmers, operations analysts, system administrators and anyone else who may be responsible for providing day-to-day support of WebSphere MQ For z/OS.

Recommended Prerequisites

A familiarity with WebSphere MQ, such a that gained by attending WMQ01 or a similar background.

For students who have not completed WMQ01, the first session can be extended. Ask for details.

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Every student attending a Verhoef Training class will receive a certificate good for $100 toward their next public class taken within a year.

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Schedule For This Course
7/2/2012
Aurora, IL
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