Often, when a user is having problems with WebSphere MQ one of the first questions asked by the IBM MQ support team is "Are there any FDC files?" The terms FFST and FDC are sometimes used synonymously. These are files written by MQ to record errors and dump information about what occurred at the time MQ encountered the error. FFST stands for First Failure Support Technology, and is technology within WebSphere MQ designed to create detailed reports with information about the current state of a queue manager together with historical... [More]

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