WebSphere Blog by Steve Robinson – WebSphereTools.com
- How to download and install IBM Websphere MQ ExplorerDownload link:https://www-01.ibm.com/marketing/iwm/iwm/web/download.do?source=swg-wsev71sp&STACT=WMQ&p.
- Right click on ‘Queue managers’ in the MQ Explorer Navigator box, then ‘Add remote queue manager’. A pop up appears. Add your queue manager name – if Docker – QM1, then click Next. Add Host name or IP Address – if Docker – localhost.
IBM MQ is a robust, reliable, and secure messaging solution. It simplifies and accelerates the integration of different applications across multiple platforms, and it supports a wide range of APIs and languages. IBM MQ allows the server infrastructure to span the data center, mainframe, and cloud frameworks. MQ enables applications to communicate and exchange data in a reliable and scalable.
In a recent update to MO71 V9.0.4 a new feature was added to allow you to import queue manager location information from an MQ Explorer export file.
To export your configuration from MQ Explorer, right-click on the top level folder in the left-hand navigation pane, and choose Export MQ Explorer Settings…
This will bring up a dialog for Export. Press Next on the first panel, then on the second panel you can indicate where you want the XML file to be written and what you want to be exported. MO71 will only import the Sets and Remote queue manager information, but will not complain if there is other information in the XML file, so you can go ahead and export it all if you wish.
MO71 doesn’t import local queue managers from an MQ Explorer export file since you can import local queue managers directly in MO71 as discussed in an earlier post.
Once you have your exported XML file from MQ Explorer, you can drive the import from the MO71 File menu, which then brings up a dialog.
In this dialog, navigate to the location where you exported your MQ Explorer settings and click on Read MQ Explorer XML File.
Import MQ Explorer Locations Dialog – choose your queue managers
The list below will show all the queue managers that were found in the MQ Explorer XML file. If any of the found queue managers are already locations in MO71, the Explorer entry will have a ‘no entry’ symbol beside it showing it cannot be added again. You can click on any others to indicate you wish to import them and the red cross will change to a green tick.
If you were using Sets to group your queue managers in MQ Explorer, you can choose to have those associations imported into MO71 as well. MO71 has several grouping concepts (as described in Can you see your QMgr for the trees?). A queue manager can be in a single group on the main window, and it can be in multiple Networks, which are used in various places where queue managers are listed in MO71. Since a queue manager could be in multiple MQ Explorer Sets, you can choose whether to translate this part of the configuration into Network names or the first one into a QM Group, or both.
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Once you have selected all the ones you want, click on Import, and you’re done.
You can also import local queue managers; queue manager location details from CCDT files; and other MO71 configuration files.
And of course, once imported, you can edit the locations to change the location labels and any other settings. If you have lots of newly imported locations you might like to consider using the Change Multiple Location dialog.
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The new version can be downloaded from the MO71 Download Page. If you don’t have a licence and would like to try out MO71 then send an email to support@mqgem.com and a 1-month trial licence will be sent to you.