Summary of mqs.ini file stanzas and attributes

A summary of the attributes of the stanzas of the IBM® MQ configuration file, mqs.ini, with links to more information.

Table 1. Stanzas of the mqs.ini file
Stanza and attributes	Description of attributes
AllQueueManagers stanza
DefaultPrefix	The path to the qmgrs directory, within which the queue manager data is kept.
DefaultEphemeralPrefix	The path to the directory, within which the queue manager ephemeral data is kept.
ConvEBCDICNewline	How IBM MQ is to convert the EBCDIC NL character into ASCII format
ApiExitCommon stanza and ApiExitTemplate stanza
Name	The descriptive name of the API exit passed to it in the ExitInfoName field of the MQAXP structure.
Function	The name of the function entry point into the module containing the API exit code.
Module	The module containing the API exit code.
Data	Data to be passed to the API exit in the ExitData field of the MQAXP structure.
Sequence	The sequence in which this API exit is called relative to other API exits.
DefaultQueueManager stanza
Name	The name of the queue manager that processes any commands for which a queue manager name is not explicitly specified.
ExitProperties stanza
CLWLMode	Whether the cluster workloac (CLWL) exit exit runs either in FAST mode or SAFE mode.
LogDefaults stanza
LogPrimaryFiles	The log files allocated when the queue manager is created.
LogSecondaryFiles	The log files allocated when the primary files are exhausted.
LogFilePages	The number of log file pages. (The log file size is specified in units of 4 KB pages.)
LogType	The type of logging to be used by the queue manager (circular or linear).
LogBufferPages	The amount of memory allocated to buffer records for writing, specifying the size of the buffers in units of 4 KB pages.
LogDefaultPath	The directory in which the log files for a queue manager reside.
LogWriteIntegrity	The method the logger uses to reliably write log records.
QueueManager stanza
Name	The name of the queue manager.
Prefix	Where the queue manager files are stored.
Directory	The name of the subdirectory under the prefix\QMGRS directory where the queue manager files are stored.
DataPath	An explicit data path provided when the queue manager was created, this overrides Prefix and Directory as the path to the queue manager data.
InstallationName	The name of the IBM MQ installation associated with this queue manager.
EphemeralPrefix	Where the queue manager ephemeral data is stored.
HA	Present for HA and DR/HA replicated data queue managers, the value is `Replicated`. The attribute is added when the queue manager is created and should not be changed.
DR	Present for DR/HA replicated data queue managers, the value is `Replicated`. The attribute is added when the queue manager is created and should not be changed.
DRRole	Present for DR replicated data queue managers and indicates the current DR role of the queue manager. The attribute is added when the queue manager is created and updated by IBM MQ. It should not be changed manually.