Chapter 9. Configuring WebSphere MQ

This chapter tells you how to change the behavior of WebSphere MQ or an individual queue manager to suit your installation's needs.

You change WebSphere MQ configuration information by changing the values specified on a set of configuration attributes (or parameters) that govern WebSphere MQ.

How you change this configuration information, and where WebSphere MQ stores your changes, is platform-specific:

• WebSphere MQ for Windows uses the WebSphere MQ Services snap-in to make changes to attribute information within the Windows Registry. You can also use amqmdain to set some Registry values, as described in amqmdain (WebSphere MQ services control).
• Users on all other platforms change attribute values by editing the WebSphere MQ configuration files.

This chapter describes:

• Changing configuration information on Windows systems
• "Changing configuration information on UNIX systems"

It then describes:

• The attributes you can use to modify WebSphere MQ configuration (for all queue managers) in "Attributes for changing WebSphere MQ configuration information"
• The attributes you can use to modify the configuration of an individual queue manager in "Changing queue manager configuration information"