How to put a message on a remote queue using the windows mq snap-in

[gertvangaever]

I have a Win2000 workstation here, with the mq snap-in installed. There is no queue manager installed on my system.
My username is in the 'mqm' group of all queue managers we have here, so I can do what I want with them!

I'd like to put a test message on a send queue of a queue manager. When I right-click on a local queue of a queue manager, I can 'put a test message'. I'd like to do the same with a remote queue, but that doesn't seem possible!

Any solutions?
Because we have a rather strict environment, I can't
- install a Qmgr on my system
- take over the servers on which the queue managers reside

Tnx!!

 

[gertvangaever]

OK I found it...

in dos window:
SET MQSERVER=<server connection channel>/TCP/<hostname>
amsputc <queue> [<queue manager if not default>]

Gert

 

[nukenrg]

As Gert said, you can always set your MQSERVER variable and use amqsputc. You can also use a tool called MQJExplorer available at

http://www.kolban.com/mqjexplorer/.

It has most of the functionality of MQExplorer, written in Java (which means you can run this GUI on Unix too!), and, what I think you'd be most interested in, you can right-click a queue - even a remote queue, and select &quot;Advanced Put Message&quot;. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by all the advanced options.

I've used this to stress-test before by telling the advanced put to put 100,000 messages of a certain size on a queue, and at the same time, use another function - consume messages - to offload the queue at a rate I specified.

If you spend a lot of time admin-ing MQ, then I think you'll find 1001 uses for this tool. I know I have!

-Frank