MQ Visual Edit

This section will describe how to invoke and use the Visual Queue Depth tool. The Visual Queue Depth will continuously monitor the queues of a queue manager displaying the Queue Name, Current Queue Depth, Max Queue Depth, Open Input Count, Open Output Count, Get Enabled / Inhibited and Put Enabled / Inhibited.

Features:
• User selectable refresh rate i.e. 60 or 30 or 10 seconds
• The user can de-select the displaying of the SYSTEM queues (i.e. SYSTEM.*)
• The current queue depth of up to 30 queues will be charted. (Charting provided by JFreeChart)
• The user can have multi windows open at the same time monitoring different queues of the same queue manager or monitoring of different queues of different queue managers at the same time.

The chart will display 60 sample points for each queue being charted. Whatever you select for the Refresh Rate will determine the total duration of the chart. For example, if the refresh rate is 60 seconds then the chart will show 1 hour of data (60 1-minute samples). If the refresh rate is 30 seconds then the chart will show 30 minutes of data (60 30-second samples).

For the MQ Tools, you can have unlimited number of them running (up to what your box can support). Also, while any of the MQ Tools are running, the user can still use MQ Visual Edit.

From the main panel of MQ Visual Edit, select Tools, then Visual Queue Depth.

This is the 'Queues To Monitor' panel, where the user selects the queue manager, refresh rate, system queues option and queue mask to be used during the monitoring of the queues.

• First, the user must select a queue manager which contents the queues to be monitored.
• If the queue mask is set to "*" then the user can select or de-select the system queues from being displayed.

The user can also combine mask filters together. Use a semi-colon (;) to separate each mask.
i.e.
ABC.*;XYZ.*;TEST.*

Hence, only queues that begin with 'ABC.', 'XYZ.' and/or 'TEST.' will be shown.

• The monitoring data can be written to a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file. On subsequent invocations, the user can select to append the data to the file or write the data to a new file.
Location of the Visual Queue Depth CSV files:
• On Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\{UserId}\Capitalware\MQVE\VQD\{QMgrName}\
• On Unix: {home}/Capitalware/MQVE/VQD/{QMgrName}/
• The user can set the rate in seconds at which the display will be refreshed.
• The user can select all queues ("*") of a queue manager to be monitored or select a partial list ("TEST*") of the queues to be monitored.

While the Visual Queue Depth is running, the current real-time values are displayed and updated. To stop the execution of the Visual Queue Depth click the Stop button.