IBM MQ Managed File Transfer provides an property called logCapture in agent.properties file. Enabling this property allows agent to capture transfer request messages that are submitted to this agent and log messages that are published by the agent to the coordination queue manager. These captured messages can be helpful when debugging transfer problems. Captured messages are stored in files in the agent log directory called capture?.log. The ? is a numeric value. The file that contains the number 0 holds the newest captured messages

The captured messages are XML formatted. It may be difficult to read through these XML formatted messages and determine the status of any transfer or debug issues.

There is a new utility MQFTS posted on GitHub. MQFTS utility parses the transfer XML messages from the capture0.log file and displays the transfer information in an easy-to-read format on the console. The capture0.log files may contain other XML messages, like Resource Monitor messages. However the utility parses only the transfer XML messages.

Try out the utility and let us know your feedback. The source code of the utility is also posted on the GitHub repository.