Tuning messaging destinations for the WebSphere MQ messaging provider

You can optimize performance of message-driven bean (MDB) or other applications that use the WebSphere® MQ messaging provider by configuring the properties of WebSphere MQ messaging provider destinations.

• To optimize performance for WebSphere MQ queues, configure the queue destination properties to best fit your message-driven bean (MDB) or other applications that use the queue destinations.
  For example:

  • Setting the Expiry property to SPECIFIED and the Specified Expiry property to 30000 milliseconds for the expiry timeout for the WebSphere MQ messaging provider queue in WebSphere Application Server reduces the number of messages that can be queued.
  • To ensure that there are enough underlying WebSphere MQ resources available for the queue, ensure that you configure the queue destination properties in WebSphere Application Server adequately for use by your message-driven beans or other applications that use the queue.
  • Consider the queue attributes associated with the queue name you created with WebSphere MQ. Inappropriate queue attributes can reduce the performance of WebSphere operations. You can use WebSphere MQ commands to change queue attributes for the queue name:

    BOQNAME

    The excessive backout requeue name. This attribute can be set to a local queue name that can hold the messages that were rolled back by the WebSphere applications. This queue name can be a system dead letter queue.

    BOTHRESH

    The backout threshold and can be set to a number when the threshold is reached, the message is moved to the queue name specified in BOQNAME.

    DEFSOPT

    Set this attribute to SHARED (for shared input from the queue).

    SHARE

    This attribute must be specified (so that multiple applications can get messages from this queue).

    For more information about using these properties, see

    • Script (MQSC) Commands, WebSphere MQ Version 7.1
    • Script (MQSC) Commands, WebSphere MQ Version 7.5
    • Script (MQSC) Commands, WebSphere MQ Version 8.0
    For more information about BOQNAME and BOTHRESH, see

    • Handling poison messages in WebSphere MQ classes for JMS, WebSphere MQ Version 7.1
    • Handling poison messages in WebSphere MQ classes for JMS, WebSphere MQ Version 7.5
    • Handling poison messages in WebSphere MQ classes for JMS, WebSphere MQ Version 8.0
• To optimize performance for WebSphere MQ topics, configure the topic destination properties to best fit your applications.
  For example:

  • To reduce the number of messages that can be queued, set the Expiry property to SPECIFIED and the Specified Expiry property to 30000 milliseconds for the expiry timeout for the WebSphere MQ queue in WebSphere Application Server.
  • To ensure that there are enough underlying WebSphere MQ resources available for the queue, ensure that you configure the queue destination properties adequately for your application usage:
    • Ensure that the queue attribute, INDXTYPE is set to MSGID for the following system queues:
      • SYSTEM.JMS.ND.CC.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE
      • SYSTEM.JMS.D.CC.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE
    • Ensure that the queue attribute, INDXTYPE is set to CORRELID for the following system queues:
      • SYSTEM.JMS.ND.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE
      • SYSTEM.JMS.D.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE

    For more information about using these properties, see the Using Java and Script (MQSC) sections in the WebSphere MQ documentation.