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  • 1.  Is there any possibility to monitor on-line/off-line the queue throughput?

    Posted Thu June 25, 2020 04:41 AM
    Hello, I am facing the customer questions like: last put/get timestamp, number of messages in the queue during a day, message throughput for a particular queue, time spent by message inside the queue ... but using a pure IBM MQ for z/OS installation I am not able to provide valuable replies. Could you, please, help me to identify some monitoring tool to be able to provide above mentioned information? Thank you! Best regards, Radek

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    Radek Vanek
    IT Specialist for zSeries IBM MQ, DB2 & DBA
    IBM Certified Specialist & Database Administrator
    IBM Client Innovation Centre Brno Czech Republic
    Email: Radek_Vanek@cz.ibm.com
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  • 2.  RE: Is there any possibility to monitor on-line/off-line the queue throughput?

    Posted Thu June 25, 2020 09:20 PM

    You have asked for:

    • Last put/get timestamp
      This can be found by using
      DISPLAY QSTATUS(q-name) LGETTIME LPUTTIME
      so long as you have MONQ(HIGH) set on the queue in question.
    • Number of messages in the queue during a day
      This can be found by using RESET QSTATS(q-name) once per day
    • Message throughput for a particular queue
      By this, do you mean number of messages per some timeframe? You could again look into the RESET QSTATS(q-name) command.
    • Time spent by message inside a queue
      Assume you don't want a number for each individual message, but instead some sort of average value? If so, you can look into
      DISPLAY STATUS(q-name) QTIME
      so long as you have MONQ(HIGH) set on the queue in question.

    All of the above can be discovered using MQSC commands.

    When you request a monitoring tool, are you looking for something to gather up this information automatically and perhaps produce a report on a daily basis for you?

    Monitoring tools often consume IBM MQ Event messages, and you could perhaps get some of the above using events, such as catching Service Interval events for when messages are not processed quickly enough, but it seems your specific questions are not so well dealt with by events, but more so by either MQSC commands as shown above, or perhaps by gathering and processing SMF records.

    Could you elaborate more on what you want the monitoring tool to produce for you?

    Cheers,
    Morag



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    Morag Hughson
    MQ Technical Education Specialist
    MQGem Software Limited
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  • 3.  RE: Is there any possibility to monitor on-line/off-line the queue throughput?

    Posted Fri June 26, 2020 07:35 AM
    Is it an option for you to connect to your Z/OS MQ installation with Windows based tools, or web browser based tools?
    A 3rd party like BMC is having a tool for monitoring z/os mq - how useful that tool is, I don't know.

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    Matthias Jungbauer
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  • 4.  RE: Is there any possibility to monitor on-line/off-line the queue throughput?

    Posted Fri June 26, 2020 07:45 AM
    Hello, thank you all for valuable inputs I received either in this thread or via email. I will go through all of them and hopefully satisfy the customer needs. Thank you again and have a nice day! Best regards, Radek

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    Radek Vanek
    IT Specialist for zSeries IBM MQ, DB2 & DBA
    IBM Certified Specialist & Database Administrator
    IBM Client Innovation Centre Brno Czech Republic
    Email: Radek_Vanek@cz.ibm.com
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