Sessions at WebSphere MQ Administration on Wednesday 6th June

It is the responsibility of the WebSphere MQ Administrator to analyze the middleware messaging architecture to make sure that messages flow through the middleware architecture as fast as possible in order to keep up with the vast amount of demographic, financial, and market data in ever-increasing frequencies that must be assimilated. This presentation will focus on techniques designed to enhance the performance of the middleware architecture across all platforms, including considerations for:

Asynchronous messaging
Synchronous messaging
Client/server messaging
Resource contention
MQ cluster
Application design considerations:
Message persistence
Message access (queue indexing)
Message sizing
LUW considerations
Enqueue/dequeue considerations
Puts to a waiting Get technique

This presentation will focus on the skills required to tune WebSphere MQ on both the z/OS platform and the distributed platforms including considerations for:

*Windows and Unix platform performance: CRTMQM and QM.INI
*z/OS platform performance:
MSTR
CHIN
Buffer Pools and Pagesets
CSQZPARM
Accounting statistics

The security of the MQ messaging environment on the z/OS platform involves a variety of technical skills and support groups. MQ Administrators on the z/OS platform engage and interface with several support groups and are increasingly tasked with coordinating the security efforts between the diversely skilled technical groups. In this session we will examine what you need to know to increase levels of security to meet business demands, including:

*The Message Channel Agent (MCA)
*RACF profiles
*Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), including:
RACF
ACF2
TopSecret

The introduction of CHLAUTH records makes WebSphere MQ v7.1 security both easier and more effective. This session will examine CHLAUTH records in detail to explain the different types and precedence rules and provide examples of how to apply them. Among the other benefits of CHLAUTH rules, it is now possible to secure WebSphere MQ clusters at the same level of granularity possible with point-to-point networks. The session will close with an example of fine-grained cluster security using CHLAUTH rules. Topics include:

IP filtering
User ID mapping
Certificate mapping
Role-based access control
CHLAUTH precedence rules
Fine-grained cluster security

Regardless of the size or complexity of your IT infrastructure, the requirement for 24 x 7 access to your mission critical messages can mean the difference between a thriving business or going out of business. Examine your options for Highly Available (HA) messaging solutions for distributed architectures. Get an introduction to HA cluster concepts followed by an example of setting up an HA MQ cluster using the Microsoft Cluster Server. The discussion in this session will include:

HA cluster vs. MQ cluster
HA cluster components
HA cluster topology
HA MQ cluster with Microsoft Cluster Server

If you are unable to access your crucial business messages, then your business may be losing income. This session examines Highly Available (HA) messaging for the z/OS platform. In this session, you will learn how WebSphere MQ Queue Sharing Groups exploit the z/OS operating system’s Parallel Sysplex with the Coupling Facility to provide your organization the highest level of availability for your mission critical messages. The discussion in this session will include:

Shared queues
Queue sharing groups
Coupling Facility structures
Message persistence
Inbound channels
Outbound channels
CICS support for QSG
DB2 database interface
Intra-group queuing
Benefits of QSG