Creating Message Queue and Queue Manager

This section shows you the systematic procedure to create a message queue and queue manager.

Creating Message Queue

To create a message queue, you need to do the following.

1. Open IBM MQ Explorer.
2. Right-click on Queues and click New > Local Queue…. The Create a Local Queue dialog box appears.

   

3. Enter the Name:, select an existing object, uncheck Start Wizard to create a matching JMS Queue and click Finish.

   

You can use this procedure to create only the following queues.

• MQClearingQueue
• MQClearingReplyQueue
• T24.BROWSER.QUEUE
• T24.BROWSER.REPLY.QUEUE

The below screen capture displays the result page which displays the queues created.

Creating Message Queue Manager

To create a message queue manager, you need to do the following.

1. Open IBM MQ Explorer.

   

2. Right-click on Queue Managers and click New > Queue Manager. The Queue Manager dialog box appears.

   

3. Enter T24MQ in Queue manager name:* in the Queue Manager-Enter basic values window and click Next.

   

4. Select Use circular logging, enter Log file size: (x4KB), Log primary files:, Log secondary files: and enable Use default paths checkbox in the Queue Manager-Enter data and log values window and click Next.

   

5. Enable Start queue manager after it has been created checkbox, set Select type of queue manager startup to Automatic in the Queue Manager-Enter configuration options window and click Next.

   

6. Enable Create listener configured for TCP/IP checkbox, enter 1414 in Listen on port number: in the Queue Manager-Enter listener options window and click Next.

   

7. Enable Autoreconnect and Automatically refresh information shown for this queue manager checkboxes, set Interval (seconds): to 15 in the Queue Manager-Enter MQ Explorer options window and click Finish.

   

   The following screen capture displays the result page, which shows the Temenos TransactMQ queue manager created.

   

8. Check if the listener is created and Listener status is Running.