Course Content
Core concepts
- Middleware
- Messages
- Queues
- Point-to-point messaging
- Publish/subscribe messaging
Simplification
- Applications accessing a WebSphere MQ infrastructure
- Asynchronous intercommunication using WebSphere MQ
- Generalizing destinations using WebSphere MQ
- Specific destinations using WebSphere MQ
- Providing services within a WebSphere MQ infrastructure
- WebSphere MQ queues as an interface for accessing services
- Standardized application programming interfaces (APIs)
- WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server
- Web services as an interface for accessing services
- Simplification of failure handling with WebSphere MQ
Scalability and performance
- Scalability features of WebSphere MQ queue managers
- An architecture based on a single queue manager
- Hub and spoke WebSphere MQ architectures
- Flexibly scaling capacity using queue manager clusters
Reliability and data integrity
- Persistent and nonpersistent messages
- Units of work
Security
- The Object Authority Manager (OAM)
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- Securing communication using SSL or TLS
High availability
- The role of queue manager clusters in high-service availability
- Queue sharing groups on WebSphere MQ for z/OS
- High availability clusters
- Disaster recovery
Designing applications that access a WebSphere MQ
Infrastructure
Understanding and configuring queue managers
Technical introduction to message queuing
Queue manager intercommunication and client connections in WebSphere MQ
Queue manager clusters
Hands-on introduction to messaging with WebSphere MQ
Securing a WebSphere MQ infrastructure
Troubleshooting
