MQ Visual Edit

Chapter 4 Clearing a Queue by Date / Time

Clearing a Queue.

This section will describe how to clear messages from a queue that are older than "x" hours or "x" days.

If you have previously opened SYSTEM.DEFAULT.LOCAL.QUEUE, the main panel may look something like:

From the main panel of MQ Visual Edit, select File, then Clear Queue by Date/Time.

Input a number value and then select the radio button that the value represents (i.e. hours or days).
Click Ok to proceed to the next step. It will now search the queue for messages older than the criteria you specified.

Click Yes if you are sure that you want the to delete the number of messages specified.
Note: There is no undo function for the Clear Queue option.

After the Clear Queue action has been performed, the main panel may look something like (red means messages were deleted ):