Course Description:

This course is designed to provide you with a solid technical knowledge to begin managing a distributed WebSphere MQ environment. This class contains hands-on exercises for a variety of common setup and trouble-shooting problems.

You will cover …

• WebSphere MQ Overview

• Introduction to asynchronous messaging models

• Distributed queuing architecture with MQSeries

• Persistent versus non-persistent messaging

• MQSeries Installation and setup – MVS and Distributed

• Defining MQ objects – ISPF, Command Line, and Windows MQ Explorer

• Operation & Administration

• Naming Conventions for MQ objects

• Recovery & Restart

• Monitoring & Performance

• Intersystem Communication

• Problem Determination and Resolution

• MQSeries Channel setup

• Triggering applications and channels

• Syncpoint and Unit of Work

• MQ Clustering and High Availability

• Transactional messaging and database coordination

• Tracking messages using MQ report options

• MQ Client configuration (Client connection channels)

• Exits (Security, Channel,

• MVS security and MQ

• Distributed systems security – securing channels and MQ objects

• Error Handling and Recovery – Dead Letter Queue management

Intended Audience:

This is an MQSeries Integrated Administration combination course designed for MQSeries System Administrators working in a distributed and/or mainframe environment (primarily MVS OS/390, z/OS, UNIX, Windows (NT and 2000), AS400, and Tandem).

Prerequisites:

You must be familiar with operating system commands, and a basic understanding of MQSeries. Knowledge of databases or network management is also desirable.

Course Content:

I. Middleware Introduction

• Role of middleware in today’s IT world

• Types of middleware and characteristics

II. IBM’s MQSeries Architecture

• Components of MQSeries

• Distributed MQSeries intercommunication

• WebSphere MQ and e-Business integration.

III. IBM MQSeries Concepts

• Message structure

• Queue managers

• Queues (Local, Remote, Model, Alias)

• Channels

• Processes

• System default objects

IV. Installing MQSeries

• Log Files placement

• Install path location

• NT/UNIX install issues

• Security considerations

• MVS Parmlib and subsystem setup

• Datasets and Pagesets

• Coupling Facility issues

• MVS address space

• CICS/IMS adapter setup

• Exercise 1 (Install MQSeries)

V. System Administration

• Installation

• Customization

• Procedures

• Interfaces

• Security (RACF, OAM)

• Backup and Recovery

• Object Maintenance

• Naming Standards

• Performance and Monitoring

• Maintenance (SMF and other logs)

• Problem Determination

• Distributed MQ system processes

• Exercise 2 (Create Queue Manager)

• Exercise 3 (Create MQ objects and server-to-server channels – troubleshoot failures.

VI. Programming Issues

• Triggering applications

• Coordination with databases

• Distributed Security

• Grouping and segmentation

• Using report options

• Using the Dead Letter Queue Monitor.

• Using the MQI API

• Object oriented APIs

• Remote management using the MQSeries Explorer MMC snap-in.

• Exercise 4 (Triggering a program, and a channel agent).

• Exercise 5 (Tracking messages when things go wrong)

VII. Clustering and High Availability

• MQSeries clustering concepts

• Components

• Creating a cluster

• Adding a queue manager to the cluster

• Full repository versus partial repository

• Managing cluster load balancing

• Queue Sharing Groups