You can view and change properties
that define broker characteristics, and those properties of associated
resources such as message flows.
Broker properties
Each broker has a set of properties that define certain characteristics
that you can control:
You can set some broker properties only at the time that you create
the broker by using the mqsicreatebroker command; for
example, its associated queue manager.
You can change some of the broker properties by using the mqsichangebroker command; for
example, timeout values for processing configuration requests.
You can view all broker properties by using the mqsireportbroker command.
You can access some broker properties from ESQL and Java™ programs that you run in message flow nodes.
For details of these options, see Broker properties.
Node properties
Each built-in (supplied) node has at least one property that you
can configure; some properties are mandatory, others are optional.
In addition to setting these properties for each node when you add
it to a message flow, you can also use the following configuration
techniques:
You can promote properties, so that you can set them at the message
flow level. For information about how and why you might want to use
this technique, see Promoted properties.
You can configure properties when you add the message flow to
a BAR file for deployment. In each node description, the subset of
node properties that you can use in this way are identified. For more
information, see Editing configurable properties.
You can create your own properties when you create a message flow,
and access those properties from ESQL and Java programs in your message flow nodes. For
further details, see User-defined properties
Configurable service properties
You can modify some of the properties of the configurable services
that are supplied to enhance your message flow processing options.
For example, configurable services are supplied to communicate with
enterprise information systems such as SAP.
You can also create your own configurable services, as variants
of the supplied services, or to provide additional options.