Installation overview

The following table shows an overview of the MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ installation activities.

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For MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ to automate MQS events from distributed event queues, you must verify that the connectivity between z/OS and distributed queue managers is defined, as described in Defining-connectivity.

Table 1. Installation activities—summary

Summary of steps

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If you are an existing MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ site, review the migration considerations.

The migration considerations chapters in the MainView AutoOPERATOR Customization Guide

Enable MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ by adding the appropriate password Keys.

Add MQ APF-authorized libraries to MainView AutoOPERATOR STEPLIB.

(optional)

Activate automatic enabling of IBM MQ events by adding MQEV=Y or a combination of MQEV=SLIPRFMCVBX to BBPARM member AAOPRMxx

(optional)

Activate the monitoring of Alias queues by adding QALIAS=Y to BBPARM member AAOPRMxx

Add BQ to the RULESET= list in AAOPRMxx.

  • Modify configuration member AAOMQLxx.
  • Include queue names against which IBM MQ Rules are written.

(optional)

Enable distributed diagnostic Rules.

Review security.

Enable IBM MQ instrumentation events on the z/OS queue manager that you want monitored.

(optional)

Enable IBM MQ instrumentation events on distributed queue manager.

If PATROL for MQ-Administrator or PATROL for MQ-Operator is installed on the z/OS system, you need to do the following steps to allow MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ to co-exist with these products:

  • Modify member AAOMQLxx.
  • Modify existing rules to use the new event queue name.

(optional)

Define sender/receiver channel pairs between z/OS IBM MQ queue managers and distributed queue managers. This allows MQ to transmit messages and commands between the queue managers.

(optional)

Define queue SYSBMC.DISTRIB.EVENTS for distributed events and include this queue in UBBPARM(AAOMQLxx).

(optional)

Route distributed instrumentation events to SYSBMC.DISTRIB.EVENTS on a z/OS MQ queue manager to make the events available to MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ.

(optional)

Set Up MQ command capability for distributed IBM MQ queue managers.

If MQGINHIB=ALTER or MQNSHARE=ALTER, verify that all queues to be monitored have the correct attributes.

Verify that MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ is correctly customized (IVP).

Implement MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ solutions.

If SAAREXX/370 is not installed, install REXX/370 alternate library.

Create site-specific IBM MQ automation Rules to capture IBM MQ messages as MainView AutoOPERATOR events.

Create EXECs to manipulate IBM MQ messages.

(optional)

Create EXECs to manage and maintain distributed IBM MQ queue managers.

 

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