Part 1: Middleware Background

What is Middleware, Message Oriented Middleware
Synchronous versus Asynchronous Communication.

Part 2: Technical Introduction to IBM WebSphere MQ

Features and benefits of IBM WebSphere MQ
Websphere MQ messages : Message Types
Persistent Messages/ Non-Persistent Messages
MQ Objects: Queue Manager, Message Queues – Types & Uses, Channels – Channel Types, Process Definitions, Listeners, Services
MQSeries Structures
Message Queue Interface (MQI) Calls: MQCONN, MQOPEN, MQPUT, MQPUT1, MQGET, Data Conversion, Correlating Messages, Get With Wait, Signals, Browsing Messages, Retrieving Browsed Messages, Message Priority,
Message Expiry, MQCMIT/ MQBACK/ MQCLOSE/ MQDISC/ MQINQ/ MQSET
Triggering: Starting Websphere MQ applications automatically in different platforms, Using triggering;Trigger message contents; Syncpoint control; MQCMIT; Syncpoints and non-resource managed objects, the initiation queue; The trigger monitor; The process object; Triggering the application queue; sample programs, MQPUT and MQGET with Syncpoint
Units of Work, Transaction Managers, Transaction support; Syncpoint control
Attributes for the creation of MQ objects
WebSphere MQ directory structure.

Part 3 - Installation and Configuration: MQ Server Installation

Create a working queue manager
Create the necessary IBM WebSphere MQ objects to support an application
Identify features of Eclipse MQ Explorer, MQSC scripting, Logging
Start and stop queue managers and appropriate queue manager services
Monitor and change IBM WebSphere MQ objects using the administrative facilities
Queue manager configuration files.

Part 4: Websphere MQ Clients

Installing MQ clients
Configuring communication links
Building applications for MQ clients
Install IBM WebSphere MQ client and connect the client to a queue manager server.

Part 5: MQ DQM

Local Communication
Remote Communication
How intercommunications works
Remote queues, Transmission queues; Message Channel Agents; MCA configuration; MCA Secure Sockets Layer (SSL); Channel types; Triggering channels, Transmission headers; Remote queues;; Starting channels; The listener; Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - ‘Handshake’; Channel exits - message, send & receive; Resolving channel problems;
Queue name Resolution, Transmission Queue Resolution, Resolution Example
Channel attributes
Monitoring channels on distributed platforms
Setting up communications on Windows and UNIX systems
Choose the appropriate methods of starting and stopping channels

Part 6: Security

Security Services, MQSeries Security, Access Control
Message Context, Passing Context, Passing Options
Control access to IBM WebSphere MQ objects
Determine when and why to use the REFRESH SECURITY command
Identify the SSL functions provided in IBM WebSphere MQ

Part 7: Problem Determination

Locate sources of information (e.g., IBM WebSphere MQ error logs, operating system logs, FFST files) to help identify problem
Determine cause of problem
Recover from problem, Follow the message path
Websphere MQ messages, Constants
Logging and recovery, Logs; Circular logging; Linear logging

Part 8: MQ Clustering

Overview of IBM WebSphere MQ clustering
Basic concepts of a MQ cluster, Set up a simple cluster
Use administrative commands to manage an MQ cluster
Describe problems that may be encountered with MQ clusters.
Explain the concepts of workload management
Implement a complex MQ cluster including more than three queue managers
WebSphere MQ cluster administration: Using administration commands