Planning for shared queues

This topic gives an overview of the concepts you should understand to use shared queues and then outlines the planning and administrative tasks associated with shared queues.

To manage message queues, your installation can use the IMS queue manager with either message queue data sets or shared queues.

Before operating in a shared-queues environment, read the information in this topic, which explains how operating in a shared-queues environment differs from operating in a non-shared-queues environment.