IBM MQ V8 Advanced System Administration for z OS WM312G

This course is designed for z/OS IBM MQ administrators and other technical professionals who are responsible for IBM MQ security, architecture, availability, and performance-related tasks.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Explain how SSL/TLS contributes to authentication and confidentiality
• Describe how to configure SSL/TLS in IBM MQ z/OS queue managers and IBM MQ clients
• Implement SSL/TLS with multiple certificate authority (CA) certificates
• Implement various types of channel authorization rules
• Describe how to configure and manage queue-sharing groups
• Explain how to incorporate shared message data sets and storage class memory to maximize coupling facility storage
• Describe how to add a queue-sharing group to an existing IBM MQ cluster
• Implement 8-byte record byte address and buffers above the 2-GB line
• Describe how to use statistics and accounting capabilities for problem determination, tuning, and capacity planning activities

Before taking this course, you should:

• Successfully complete IBM MQ V8 System Administration for z/OS (WM302G), or have equivalent experience
• Be proficient working with z/OS, or successfully complete Fundamental System Skills in z/OS (ES10G)

• Course introduction
• IBM MQ baseline
• Exercise: Configuring the IBM MQ lab environment
• Channel security with SSL/TLS
• Exercise: Configuring SSL/TLS for queue managers and channels
• Channel security with channel authentication rules
• Exercise: Configuring channel authentication rules
• Queue-sharing groups
• Exercise: Configuring queue-sharing groups and shared queues
• Intra-group, distributed queuing, and clustering with queue-sharing groups
• Exercise: Intra-group and distributed queuing with queue-sharing groups
• Eight-byte relative byte address (RBA) and buffers above the 2-GB line
• Exercise: Implementing 8-byte relative byte address and buffers above the 2-GB line
• Introduction to IBM MQ for z/OS statistics and accounting
• Exercise: Getting started with IBM MQ statistics and accounting records
• Course summary