Accessing Remote Queues

The CMS Communications Directory serves as the repository for APPC/VM-related information associated with network-level queues. CMS uses the value of the :sdn. tag from $QUEUES$ NAMES as a symbolic destination name for use with the CMS Communications Directory. The CMS Communications Directory gives the APPC/VM naming and addressing information needed to reach the remote queue.

The CMS Communications Directory entries describing remote instances of CMS must be set up as private resource manager entries. The format of these entries varies according to the relative locations (same collection, different collections, and so forth) of the two carriers. For more information on setting up private resource manager entries in the CMS Communications Directory, see z/VM: Connectivity.

The APPC/VM carrier uses the value of the :qn. tag from $QUEUES$ NAMES as the name of the queue at the remote location. It passes that name to the remote instance of CMS for its use in finding the queue.