IBM MQ V8 System Administration for z/OS Schulung

• 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 V8 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

Course Outline

• 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