Tuning messaging destinations for the IBM MQ messaging provider
You can optimize performance of message-driven bean (MDB) or other applications that use the IBM MQ messaging provider by configuring the properties of IBM MQ messaging provider destinations.
About this task
To optimize performance, configure queue and topic destination properties in WebSphere® Application Server and IBM MQ to best fit your applications.
Procedure
- To optimize performance for IBM MQ queues, configure
the queue destination properties to best fit your message-driven bean (MDB) or other applications
that use the queue destinations. For example:
- Setting the Expiry property to SPECIFIED and the Specified Expiry property to 30000 milliseconds for the expiry timeout for the IBM MQ messaging provider queue in WebSphere Application Server reduces the number of messages that can be queued.
- To ensure that there are enough underlying IBM MQ resources available for the queue, ensure that you configure the queue destination properties in WebSphere Application Server adequately for use by your message-driven beans or other applications that use the queue.
- Consider the queue attributes associated with the queue name you created with IBM MQ. Inappropriate queue attributes can reduce the performance of
WebSphere
operations. You can use IBM MQ commands to change queue
attributes for the queue name:
- BOQNAME
- The excessive backout requeue name. This attribute can be set to a local queue name that can hold the messages that were rolled back by the WebSphere applications. This queue name can be a system dead letter queue.
- BOTHRESH
- The backout threshold and can be set to a number when the threshold is reached, the message is moved to the queue name specified in BOQNAME.
- DEFSOPT
- Set this attribute to SHARED (for shared input from the queue).
- SHARE
- This attribute must be specified (so that multiple applications can get messages from this queue).
For more information about using these properties, see
- To optimize performance for IBM MQ
topics, configure the topic destination properties to best fit your applications. For example:
- To reduce the number of messages that can be queued, set the Expiry property to SPECIFIED and the Specified Expiry property to 30000 milliseconds for the expiry timeout for the IBM MQ queue in WebSphere Application Server.
- To ensure that there are enough underlying IBM MQ resources
available for the queue, ensure that you configure the queue destination properties adequately for
your application usage:
- Ensure that the queue attribute, INDXTYPE is set to MSGID for the following system queues:
- SYSTEM.JMS.ND.CC.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE
- SYSTEM.JMS.D.CC.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE
- Ensure that the queue attribute, INDXTYPE is set to CORRELID for the following system queues:
- SYSTEM.JMS.ND.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE
- SYSTEM.JMS.D.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE
For more information about using these properties, see the Using Java and Script (MQSC) sections in the IBM MQ documentation.
- Ensure that the queue attribute, INDXTYPE is set to MSGID for the following system queues: