Queue Manager (MQM)
- Manages queues and messages for applications
- Transfers messages to other Queue Managers via channels using existing network facilities.
- It refers to objects that are defined by the administrator.
- Coordinates updates to databases and queues using two-phase commit.
- Gets and puts from/to queues are committed together with SQL updates, or backed out if necessary.
- Segments messages, if necessary, and assembles them.
- Can group messages and send them as one physical message to their destination, where they are automatically disassembled.
- Can send one message to more than one destination using a user-defined dynamic destination list.
- Allow administrators to create and delete queues, alter properties of existing queues,control the operation of queue manager.
- Front-end available on Eclipse to manage Queue Manager
Queue Manager Clusters
- Queue Managers that form a cluster can run in the same machine or in different machines on different platforms.
- Two of Queue Managers maintain a repository that contains information about all queue managers and queues in the cluster (full repository). Other Queue Managers maintain only a repository of the objects they are interested in (partial repository).
- Queue Managers use special cluster channels to exchange information.
- Client application may specify a queue manager and direct the message to a specific queue in a cluster or it may let a queue manager to determine where the queue is and to which one to send the message.
- Client uses a Transmission Queue on its machine and destination queue is called “Target Queue”.
- Administrator must define the name of the cluster, when a queue is defined.
- MQSeries distributes the messages round robin.
Queue Manager Objects
- A Queue Manager uses 3 types of objects, namely, Queues, Process Definitions and Channels.
- Queues are used to store messages.
- Process Definition object defines an application to a queue manager. It contains a name of a program (and its path) to be triggered when a message arrives for it.
- Channel is a communication link. There are 2 kinds of channels, namely, Message Channels and MQI channels.
- Message Channel connects 2 queue managers via Message Channel Agents (MCA). Message Channel is unidirectional.
- MCA is a program (also called mover) that transfers messages from a transmission queue to a communication link and from communication link to a target queue.
- MQI channel connects MQSeries client to a queue manager and is bi-directional.
- Message Channel can run at 2 speeds: fast and normal. Fast Channels improve performance but messages can be lost in case of channel failure.
Message Queues
- Message Queues belong to Queue Manager.
- Types of Messages Queues are:
- Local Queue – is a real queue
- Cluster Queue – is a local queue that is known throughout a cluster of queue managers.
- Remote Queue – structure describing a queue hosted by a different queue manager.
- Transmission Queue – a local queue used for messages to be sent to a remote queue.
- Initiation Queue – local queue with a special purpose
- Dynamic Queue – local queue created on the fly
- Alias Queue - if you do not like the queue name
- Dead-Letter Queue – one for each queue manager
- Reply-to Queue – specified in request message
- Model Queue – model for local queues
- Repository Queue – hold cluster information
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