Administration commands in the WebSphere MQ JMS administration tool

The administration tool accepts commands consisting of an administration verb and its appropriate parameters.

When the command prompt is displayed, the tool is ready to accept commands. Administration commands are generally of the following form:


verb [param]*

where verb is one of the administration verbs listed in Table 1. All valid commands contain one verb, which appears at the beginning of the command in either its standard or short form.

The parameters a verb can take depend on the verb. For example, the END verb cannot take any parameters, but the DEFINE verb can take any number of parameters. Details of the verbs that take at least one parameter are discussed in the related topics.

Table 1. Administration verbs
Verb	Short form	Description
ALTER	ALT	Change at least one of the properties of an administered object
DEFINE	DEF	Create and store an administered object, or create a subcontext
DISPLAY	DIS	Display the properties of one or more stored administered objects, or the contents of the current context
DELETE	DEL	Remove one or more administered objects from the namespace, or remove an empty subcontext
CHANGE	CHG	Alter the current context, allowing the user to traverse the directory namespace anywhere below the initial context (pending security clearance)
COPY	CP	Make a copy of a stored administered object, storing it under an alternative name
MOVE	MV	Alter the name under which an administered object is stored
END		Close the administration tool

Verb names are not case-sensitive.

Typically, to terminate commands, you press the carriage return key. However, you can override this by typing the plus sign (+) directly before the carriage return. This enables you to enter multiline commands, as shown in the following example:


DEFINE Q(BookingsInputQueue) +
       QMGR(QM.POLARIS.TEST) +
       QUEUE(BOOKINGS.INPUT.QUEUE) +
       PORT(1415) +
       CCSID(437)

Lines beginning with any of the following characters are treated as comments and are ignored: * # / .