Configuring IBM WebSphere MQ queue managers

If your WebSphere® MQ Managed File Transfer network includes more than one IBM® WebSphere MQ queue manager, these MQ queue managers must be able to remotely communicate with each other.

About this task

There are two ways to configure your queue managers to be able to communicate with each other:

By setting up an IBM WebSphere MQ queue manager cluster.
For information about IBM WebSphere MQ queue manager clusters and how to configure them, see Configuring a queue manager cluster.
By setting up channels between the queue managers, which is described as follows:

Setting up channels between queue managers

Set up the following message channels between your queue managers:

From the agent queue manager to the coordination queue manager
From the command queue manager to the agent queue manager.
From the agent queue manager to the command queue manager (to enable feedback messages to be shown by the commands).
From the command queue manager to the coordination queue manager
From the agent queue manager to any other agent queue manager in the WebSphere MQ Managed File Transfer network

If you need further information about how to set up this communication, start with this information: Administering remote IBM WebSphere MQ objects using MQSC.

Some suggested example steps are:

Procedure

Create a transmission queue on the IBM WebSphere MQ queue manager with the same name as the coordination queue manager.
You can use the following MQSC command:
```
DEFINE QLOCAL(coordination-qmgr-name) USAGE(XMITQ)
```
On the IBM WebSphere MQ queue manager, create a sender channel to the WebSphere MQ Managed File Transfer coordination queue manager. The name of the transmission queue created in the previous step is a required parameter for this channel. On the sender channel, ensure the CONVERT parameter of the channel is set to no. (WebSphere MQ Managed File Transfer always publishes messages in UTF-8 format, which means that any data conversion corrupts the message.)
You can use the following MQSC command:
```
DEFINE CHANNEL(channel-name) CHLTYPE(SDR) CONNAME('coordination-qmgr-host(coordination-qmgr-port)') 
 XMITQ(coordination-qmgr-name) CONVERT(NO)
```
On the WebSphere MQ Managed File Transfer coordination queue manager, create a receiver channel to the IBM WebSphere MQ queue manager. Give this receiver channel the same name as the sender channel on the IBM WebSphere MQ queue manager.
You can use the following MQSC command:
```
DEFINE CHANNEL(channel-name) CHLTYPE(RCVR)
```

What to do next

Next, follow the configuration steps for your coordination queue manager: Configuring the coordination queue manager.