Process definitions

A process definition contains information about the application that starts in response to a trigger event on a queue manager. When you enable triggering on a queue, you can create a process definition and associate it with the queue.

Each queue can specify a different process definition, or several queues can share the same process definition. If you create a process definition, the queue manager extracts the information from the process definition and places it in the trigger message for the trigger monitor to use.

If you want to trigger the start of a channel, instead of an application, you do not need to create a process definition because the transmission queue definition is used instead.

For more information, see Process definitions in the IBM® MQ online product documentation.