Purging a local queue

You can delete all messages from a local queue in the Queue Statistics workspace.

1. Open the monitoring file of the WebSphere® MQ Monitoring agent. See Changing monitoring options for information about how to open the monitoring file on a specific operating system.
2. Add the following command to the monitoring file to allow deletion of messages from the queue:

   SET QACCESS NAME(queue_name) MSGACCESS(DELETE) MGRNAME(qmgr_name)

   where queue_name is the name of the queue whose messages you want to delete and qmgr_name is the name of the queue manager that the queue belongs to.
3. Restart the WebSphere MQ Monitoring agent for the changes to take effect.
4. Click Queue Statistics in the Navigator physical view to open the Queue Statistics workspace.
5. In the Queue Statistics for Monitored Queues with Messages table, right-click the row that corresponds to the queue whose messages you want to delete, and click Purge Queue (MQGET). A message is displayed, asking if you want to purge all messages from the selected queue.
6. Click Yes.