Testing a queue manager on z/OS

When you have customized or migrated your queue manager, you can test it by running the installation verification programs and some of the sample applications shipped with IBM® MQ for z/OS®.

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After you have installed and customized IBM MQ for z/OS, you can use the supplied installation verification program, CSQ4IVP1, to confirm that IBM MQ for z/OS is operational.

The basic installation verification program CSQ4IVP1 tests non-shared queues and verifies the base IBM MQ without using the C, COBOL, or CICS® samples.

After running the basic installation verification, you can test for shared queues by using CSQ4IVP1 with different queues, and also test that Db2® and the coupling facility are set up correctly. To confirm that distributed queuing is operational, you can use the supplied installation verification program, CSQ4IVPX,

CSQ4IVP1 is supplied as a load module, and provides a set of procedural sample applications as source modules that demonstrate typical uses of the Message Queue Interface (MQI). You can use these source modules to test different programming language environments. You can compile and link-edit whichever of the other samples are appropriate to your installation by using the supplied sample JCL supplied.