MQSC commands reference

Use MQSC commands to help you manage queue manager objects, including the queue manager itself, queues, process definitions, channels, client connection channels, listeners, services, namelists, clusters, and authentication information objects.

This section describes, in alphabetical order, all the MQSC commands that can be issued by operators and administrators.

Note: How you run MQSC commands varies by platform. See Administering IBM® MQ using MQSC commands.

MQSC command and object synonyms

Notes:
  • If no synonym is available, the complete command, or object must be provided.
  • Not every command is able to use, or refer to, every object.
Table 1. MQSC command synonyms
Command Synonym
ALTER ALT
CLEAR  
DEFINE DEF
DELETE  
DISPLAY DIS
END  
EXIT  
PING  
PURGE  
QUIT  
REFRESH REF
RESET  
RESOLVE  
RESUME  
SET  
START STA
STOP  
SUSPEND  
Table 2. MQSC object synonyms
Object Synonym
AUTHINFO  
CHANNEL CHL
CHLAUTH  
CHSTATUS CHS
CLUSQMGR  
COMMINFO  
CONN  
ENTAUTH  
LISTENER LSTR
LOG  
LSSTATUS  
NAMELIST NL
POLICY  
PROCESS PROC
PUBSUB  
QUEUE Q
QALIAS QA
QCLUSTER QC
QLOCAL QL
QMODEL QM
QMGR  
QMSTATUS  
QREMOTE  
QSTATUS QS
SBSTATUS  
SERVICE  
SUB  
TCLUSTER  
TOPIC TPC
TPSTATUS TPS