This course provides the skills that are necessary to configure and manage an IBM MQ V8 queue manager on z/OS.

Through lectures and hands-on lab exercises, you learn how to install, customize, operate, and administer IBM MQ V8. 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 V8 tasks such as defining and monitoring channels, configuring IBM MQ clusters, and problem determination activities.

• Course introduction
• IBM MQ review
• IBM MQ architecture, installation, and configuration
• Exercise: Configuring an IBM MQ for z/OS queue manager
• IBM MQ for z/OS administrative interface options
• Exercise: Working with queues
• Distributed queuing
• Exercise: Working with channels
• IBM MQ clients
• Exercise: Working with IBM MQ clients
• IBM MQ cluster basics
• Exercise: Working with IBM MQ clusters
• Publish/subscribe basics
• Exercise: Publish/subscribe basics
• Queue sharing groups
• Using IBM MQ events and the dead-letter queue utility
• Exercise: Working with IBM MQ events
• Security considerations
• Exercise: Security
• Problem determination
• IBM MQ Managed File Transfer
• Exercise: IBM MQ Managed File Transfer configuration for z/OS
• IBM MQ for z/OS backup, recovery, and related file tasks
• Exercise: Working with file handling utilities
• Support for CICS, IMS, and HTTP applications
• Course summary