WebSphere MQ Services

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Smooth Start

Is your company starting with WebSphere MQ? When properly implemented, MQ can be a powerful tool for integrating your applications across many languages and various platforms. Our experienced MQSoftware Consultants will get your implementation off on the right foot with a clean base configuration and a well established set of best practice policies and procedures.

Smooth Start deliverables:

  • WebSphere MQ will be installed on any WebSphere MQ supported system - AIX, HP-UX, iSeries, Linux, Windows, or zSeries
  • A WebSphere MQ Queue Manager will be configured including logging, security, backup and recovery mechanisms, and standard system objects i.e. listener, trigger monitor, channel initiator, dead letter queues and handlers, and command server.
  • The installation will be tested using standard IBM sample programs.
  • WebSphere MQ Channels will be created and tested between each of the configured systems.
  • Procedures will be established for creating and modifying queues for individual applications and an initial set of queues will be created.
  • MQSoftware Consultants will provide WebSphere MQ knowledge transfer to your administrators, architects, and developers.

Smooth Start prerequisites:

  • WebSphere MQ purchased and available
  • Systems with the appropriate hardware and software resources for WebSphere MQ. If you are uncertain of this, please consider a MQSoftware Implementation Planning Engagement
  • Systems that will communicate have basic network connectivity - typically TCP, but SNA, DECNET, NETBIOS, and IPX are also acceptable
  • A System Administrator for each of the systems will be available to provide appropriate administrative level logins.
  • Future MQ administrators available for knowledge transfer.

Duration: +3 days depending upon the number of systems to be configured.

A rough formula is:
2 Days for groundwork, knowledge transfer, policy establishment, etc.
½ Day per Windows system
1 Day per UNIX, iSeries, or other distributed system.
2 Days per z/OS LPAR