Enabling the Dead Letter Aging management rule

The MQDEDQ02 Rule creates nonvolatile ALERTs which report on the total number of messages that are more than one day old and the total number of messages that are more than one week old in both the dead letter queue and the alternate queue for invalid dead letters (dead letters without proper headers).

To enable and edit the MQDEDQ02 Rule

1. Go to the Automation Control panel where the list of Rule Sets is displayed.
2. Ensure that the AAORULBQ Rule Set is enabled. If not, enable the Rule Set by typing the (E)nable line command next to the Rule Set name.
3. Select the AAORULBQ Rule Set.
4. Select the Rule MQDEDQ02.
5. Edit MQDEDQ02 using the Rules Processor application panels.
6. Press Enter to navigate through the panels and make the following change:

   On the Selection Criteria panel specify what time of day you want the Rule to fire and set the interval to 24:00:00.

7. Enable the MQDEDQ02 Rule by performing one of the following actions:

   • Enable the Rule on the Rule Processor Detail Control panel.

   • Use the (E)nable line command on the Ruleset Overview panel.

   • Issue the BBI command:

   .T RULE,ENA,MQDEDQ02