Migrating Managed File Transfer agents from an earlier version

Agents migrated from versions of IBM® MQ prior to IBM MQ 9.1.4 run as non highly available. You can make them run in high availability mode by carrying out the following procedure.

Procedure

  1. Create the SYSTEM.FTE.HA.<agent name> queue in the agent queue manager using the following sample definition: 
    
DEFINE QLOCAL(SYSTEM.FTE.HA.SRC) +
 DEFPRTY(0) +
 DEFSOPT(SHARED) +
 GET(ENABLED) +
 MAXDEPTH(0) +
 MAXMSGL(0) +
 MSGDLVSQ(PRIORITY) +
 PUT(ENABLED) +
 RETINTVL(999999999) +
 SHARE +
 NOTRIGGER +
 USAGE(NORMAL) +
 REPLACE
  2. Provide the required authorities on the queue for the agent to open the queue for GET.
  3. Create a replica of the agent configuration on another machine
  4. Add the highlyAvailable property, and set the property to true, in the agent.properties file for both agent configurations.