POWERUp 2019

IBM MQ celebrated its 25th birthday in 2018, this milestone also coincided with the release of the latest long term support (LTS) release of IBM MQ on the IBM i platform, version 9.1. This session introduces some of the new capabilities available for the first time on the platform in the IBM MQ 9.1 release, the IBM MQ Web Console and REST APIs for administration and messaging. The web browser based console offers a new alternative to traditional MQ admin via green screen CL commands, similarly the REST API offers a much simpler programmatical interface to constructing PCF messages using JSON.

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will learn how to;
- Install, configure and secure the IBM MQ Web console and REST API on IBM i
- Use the IBM MQ Web console to configure and manage a server installation of queue managers
- Use the IBM MQ Web console to configure dashboards with graphical monitoring of MQ application activity and resources
- Use the IBM MQ REST API to perform common administration tasks against any queue manager
- Use the IBM MQ REST API to put and get simple messages into MQ