Queue View

The MQJExplorer queue view displays the list of queues and their properties managed by the selected queue manager. 

On the toolbar, a series of queue type filters are supplied:

These can be used to include or exclude various queue types from the display.  In addition, queue filtering is available to filter queues by name.

By right-clicking on a particular queue, a popup menu appears which contains a variety of actions that may be performed on the queue:

Browse Messages

This command browses the messages on a queue.  A separate dialog windows is displayed which shows a list of the first 200 messages on the queue.  By selecting a message, specific properties of the message may be displayed.  Double clicking a queue invokes the message browser.

For more details on queue message browsing see:

• Queue browsing

Put Test Message

This command allows a simple, single line of text to be entered and put as a message on the queue.

Put Advanced message

This command invokes a dialog from which complex message contents may be entered and placed on the queue.

The contents of the message may be taken from one of three locations:

• File - The data to be written to the message will be taken from a named file.
• Screen - The data to be written to the message can be entered directly on the screen.
• Size - The data will be automatically generated as a specific sized chunk of bytes

In addition, a count may be supplied of how many instances of the message should be put to the queue.  The message may be tagged as persistent or non-persistent.

For more details, see:

• Put Advanced Message

Backup messages to a file

This command dumps the complete contents of a queue to a named file.  The message is written in an MQJExplorer internal format and should not be manipulated outside of this environment.

See also:

• Message Backup and Restore

Restore message from a file

This command writes the contents of a file previously created with the "Write messages to file" command to a queue.  The messages are restored to a queue with the identical specification that they had when they were written.

See also:

• Message Backup and Restore

Consume Messages

This command invokes a dialog which consumes messages from a queue and reports on how many messages were read and how fast they were retrieved.

This operation can provide detailed information on message arrival rates as well as how quickly the messages may be consumed from a queue.

See also:

• Consuming messages

Clear Messages

This command asks the queue manager to clear all messages from the queue.  This will only succeed in no-one has the queue open for input or output.

Deplete Messages from queue

This command depletes all the messages from the queue by reading each message and ignoring its contents. This operation may be used to clean messages from a queue even while the queue is opened.

Properties

This command will display and allow modification of the properties of the selected queue.

Delete

This command will delete the selected queue. A dialog will be displayed prompting for confirmation.

Refresh

This command will refresh the properties of the selected queue from the queue manager.

Refresh All

This command will refresh all the queues from the queue manager.  If the queue manager is remote and connected by a slow connection or there are a very large number of queues, this operation may take some time.

Tree menu selections

Additional options are available by invoking the popup menu on the queues entry on left side tree pane.

See also:

• Queue View Tree Menu

Last Updated: 09/29/01