Audience
This course is designed for technical support personnel who implement, operate and perform day-to-day administration of IBM MQ V9.x on z/OS. It also includes a look at MQ Explorer and MQ on distributed systems.
Prerequisites
You should have:
- Basic knowledge of IBM MQ concepts would be useful, but is not essential.
- Working proficiency with the z/OS platform and Microsoft Windows is useful - please advise in advance if you don't have this.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP is also helpful.
Duration
5 days. Hands on. (4 days if only z/OS content is required)
Course Objectives
This course provides the skills that are necessary to configure and manage an IBM MQ V9.x queue manager on z/OS.
Through lectures and hands-on lab exercises, you learn how to install, customize, operate and administer IBM MQ V9. The course covers configuring a z/OS queue manager, setting up distributed queuing, IBM MQ clustering, IBM MQ on z/OS recovery and restart, security and performance considerations. It also covers day-to-day administration and problem recovery. The hands-on lab exercises give you direct experience with IBM MQ V9 tasks such as defining and monitoring channels, configuring IBM MQ clusters and problem determination activities. The course includes detailed coverage and hands on exercises with administering via MQ Explorer and MQ use on MS Windows, as most sites are multi-platform. (If this is not required, please let us know and the duration can be reduced by one day.)
Course objectives include:
- Describe message-oriented middleware and the capabilities it must provide
- Identify the key components of IBM MQ for z/OS
- Summarize the responsibilities of the IBM MQ administrator
- Configure IBM MQ IBM V9 for z/OS
- Enable IBM MQ for z/OS eight-byte RBA and buffers above 2 GB
- Demonstrate how to create and change queues and place and retrieve messages from a queue
- Define and demonstrate how to set up and work with distributed queuing
- Differentiate between an IBM MQ queue manager and an IBM MQ client
- Describe and demonstrate how to set up an IBM MQ cluster
- Contrast point-to-point and publish/subscribe messaging styles
- Describe shared queues and queue sharing groups
- Summarize IBM MQ for z/OS recovery and restart activities
- Demonstrate how to use IBM MQ events for monitoring
- Summarize performance considerations
- Describe security considerations for IBM MQ for z/OS
- Describe and implement connection authentication and channel authorization
- Identify correct problem determination techniques for IBM MQ for z/OS
- Summarize basic use and configuration of IBM MQ Managed File Transfer
- Describe IBM MQ support for CICS and IMS interfaces
- Administration of MQ using MQ Explorer
- MQ on distributed systems
- Distributed Queuing MQ clients
Course Content
Day 1
Course introduction
IBM MQ review
IBM MQ architecture, installation, and configuration
Demonstration of configuration, Mainframe logons. TSO and Z/OS navigation. Z/OS terminology.
IBM MQ for z/OS administrative interface options Part 1.
Demonstration Admin interfaces and exercises
Day 2
Distributed MQ admin interfaces Part 2.
Demo of MQ Interfaces and how to administer MQ zOS from MQ Explorer.
Exercises on z/OS and Windows
Introduction to Distributed Queuing
Demonstrations of how to set up MQ Distributed Queuing.
Exercises
Day 3.
z/OS Distributed queuing
Demonstrations on Channel configuration
Exercise - Working with channels
IBM z/OS MQ clients
MQ Clients demonstrations
Exercise - Working with IBM MQ clients
Distributed Queuing MQ clients.
Day 4.
IBM MQ cluster basics
MQ Clustering with Distributed MQ
Demonstrations of MQ Cluster setup and configuration.
Working with IBM MQ clusters
MQ Distributed Publish Subscribe.
Queue sharing groups
Day 5
Using IBM MQ events and the dead-letter queue utility
Security considerations
Problem determination
Demonstrations of MQ Security
IBM MQ Managed File Transfer
IBM MQ for z/OS backup, recovery, and related file tasks