Format

Classroom

Duration

1.0 Day(s)

Description

This course is designed to provide a technical introduction to WebSphere MQ.

Audience

Technical personnel who wish to find out more about WebSphere MQ.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have previous technical experience in working with software. Skills and experience in one or more of the following specific areas will enable you to derive more benefit from the course:

• Communications and networking
• System and network management
• System design
• Application development
• Transaction processing
• Database
• Client/server solutions
• Platform knowledge (IBM and non-IBM)
• Open systems

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

· Compare and contrast WebSphere MQ with other forms of program-to-program communication

• Identify the major impacts of WebSphere MQ on application design
• List the platforms on which WebSphere MQ is supported
• Describe the basic components and structure of WebSphere MQ

(for example, a message, a queue, a queue manager, a channel, a
cluster, and so forth.)

• Describe the function of each of the calls in the Message Queue

Interface (MQI)

• Describe the tasks that need to be performed in order to manage a

queue manager and its connections with other queue managers
and with WebSphere MQ client applications

• Describe the transactional support within WebSphere MQ
• Describe those features of WebSphere MQ that contribute to

system security

• Explain how WebSphere MQ can be used as part of the

communications infrastructure to connect application environments
such as Lotus Notes, the World Wide Web, and enterprise
transaction and data base systems