IBM MQ V9 Application Development (Windows Labs)

• Course introduction
• IBM MQ overview
• Exercise: Working with IBM MQ to find your message
• Basic design and development concepts
• Exercise: Getting started with IBM MQ development
• MQOPEN, queue name resolution, and MQPUT
• Exercise: Working with MQOPEN and queue name resolution, MQPUT, and MQMD fields
• Getting messages and retrieval considerations
• Exercise: Correlating requests to replies
• Data conversion
• Bind and Message groups
• Committing and backing out units of work
• Exercise: Commit and back out review
• Asynchronous messaging
• Exercise: Asynchronous messaging review
• IBM MQ clients
• Exercise: Working with an IBM MQ client
• Introduction to publish/subscribe
• Exercise: Working with publish/subscribe basics
• Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) and IBM MQ Light
• Exercise: Connecting IBM MQ Light applications to IBM MQ applications
• Course summary

This course is designed for application developers and architects who are responsible for the development and design of IBM MQ applications.

• Successful completion of Technical Introduction to IBM MQ (WM103G), or comparable experience with IBM MQ
• Experience in business application design
• Experience in C language development

• Describe key IBM MQ components and processes
• Explain the effect of design and development choices in the IBM MQ environment
• Describe common queue attributes and how to control these attributes in an application
• Differentiate between point-to-point and publish/subscribe messaging styles
• Describe the calls, structures, and elementary data types that compose the message queue interface
• Describe how IBM MQ determines the queue where messages are placed
• Explain how to code a program to get messages by either browsing or removing the message from the queue
• Describe how to handle data conversion across different platforms
• Explain how to put messages that have sequencing or queue manager affinities
• Explain how to commit or back out messages in a unit of work
• Describe how to code programs that run in an IBM MQ Client
• Explain the use of asynchronous messaging calls
• Describe the basics of writing publish/subscribe applications
• Describe the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
• Differentiate among the various IBM MQ Light AMQP implementations
• Explain how to use IBM MQ applications to interface with IBM MQ Light

Exercises

• Exercise 1: Working with IBM MQ to find your message
• Exercise 2: Getting started with IBM MQ development
• Exercise 3: Working with MQOPEN and queue name resolution, MQPUT, and MQMD fields
• Exercise 4: Correlating requests to replies
• Exercise 5: Commit and backout review
• Exercise 6: Asynchronous messaging review
• Exercise 7: Working with an IBM MQ client
• Exercise 8: Working with publish/subscribe basics
• Exercise 9: Exchanging messages between IBM MQ applications and IBM MQ Light applications