WebSphere MQ sample programs—server

There is a whole set of sample programs available to the WebSphere MQ administrator. We are interested in only a couple of them: the program to put a message onto a queue and a program to retrieve a message from a queue. The names of these sample programs depend on whether we are running WebSphere MQ as a server or as a client.

There is a server sample program called amqsput, which puts messages onto a queue using the MQPUT call. This sample program comes as part on the WebSphere MQ samples installation package, not as part of the base package—see the Q replication constituent components section of Chapter 1, Q Replication Overview.

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The maximum length of message that we can put onto a queue using the amqsput sample program is 100 bytes.

There is a corresponding server sample program to retrieve messages from a queue called amqsget.

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Use the sample programs only when testing that the queues are set up correctly—do NOT use the programs once Q Capture...