WebSphere MQ Utilities

Comments on a topic I had previously posted about on my own blog http://john-rutter.blogspot.com/2007/12/websphere-message-queue-utilities.html but worthy of some repetition here.

If you are using WebSphere Message Queue (WMQ), then a quick checklist of utilities you may find useful:

RFHUTIL - still not automatically included in WMQ installations, but very useful for development and support.
- Get this as SupportPac IH03 from the IBM Web Site
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24000637
MQ Explorer – an Eclipse-based utility, included in WMQ V6, but previously this needed to be downloaded as another SupportPac for V5
- (I believe a similar tool exists for SI Bus queues on WAS/WESB/WPS)
MQ Pub/Sub Explorer – if using the MQ Pub/Sub Broker, this allows subscriptions to be viewed and cancelled from MQ Explorer
- Get this from IBM as SupportPac IS02,
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24012457
SaveQMgr – a utility that saves MQ Queue Manager definitions as MQSC scripts, which can be run against another Queue Manager instance to set up the same objects or queues
- IBM SupportPac MS03
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24000673
Q utility – allows message data to be streamed from one queue direct to another
- IBM SupportPac MA01
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24000647
PCF Java classes – if developing administration functionality in your own Java applications, this class library wraps up the Programmable Commands Format (PCF) in an easily-used design.
- IBM SupportPac MS0B
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24000668