Messaging troubleshooting tips
These tips are to help you troubleshoot your WebSphere® messaging configuration.
To help you identify and resolve problems with messaging, you can use the
WebSphere Application Server trace and logging facilities.
If you see IBM MQ error messages or reason codes in WebSphere Application Server messages and logs, refer to the Messages section of the IBM MQ information center.
Check to see if the problem has been identified and documented, by using the links in Diagnosing and fixing problems: Resources for learning.
- WebSphere MQ resource adapter configuration is not automatically updated and requires manual maintenance
- java.lang.ClassNotFoundException exceptions occur when you install a fix pack
- Messages from WebSphere MQ for z/OS are not being consumed by JMS applications
- A JMS application can no longer send or receive messages
- An MDB listener fails to start
- Problems running JMS applications with security enabled
Application server does not start when the zh_TW.EUC locale is set on Solaris
- Server memory consumption and java.lang.OutOfMemoryError error when processing JMS messages
- TopicConnectionFactory attributes clash error
- WSEC5061E: The SOAP Body is not signed exception
- Error occurs when you use IBM MQ as an external JMS provider
javax.jms.JMSException: MQJMS3024: unable to start MDB listener
WebSphere MQ resource adapter configuration is not automatically updated and requires manual maintenance
Normally the IBM MQ resource adapter is automatically updated when you apply a WebSphere Application Server fix pack. However, if you have manually updated the IBM MQ resource adapter on some nodes in your environment, applying a fix pack does not automatically update the resource adapter that is used by servers on those nodes.
To resolve this issue, see Maintaining the IBM MQ resource adapter.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException exceptions occur when you install a fix pack
J2CA0043E: An exception occurred while trying to instantiate a ResourceAdapter JavaBean instance for the installed ResourceAdapter defined by key #removed#
Messages from WebSphere MQ for z/OS are not being consumed by JMS applications
Messages from WebSphere MQ for z/OS are not being consumed by JMS applications that are deployed into WebSphere Application Server and that use connection factories or activation specifications
A JMS application can no longer send or receive messages
- One or more message beans connected through Java™ Message Service (JMS) activation specifications.
- One or more enterprise beans connected through JMS connection factories and JMS destinations.
- For a view of the JMS resources for a given application, see the following panel: Messaging resources for this application.
- For a view of the applications and JMS resources for a given default messaging provider destination, see the following panel: Application resources for this destination.
An MDB listener fails to start
WMSG0019E: Unable to start MDB Listener {0}, JMSDestination {1} : {2} - Check that the administrative resources have been configured correctly. For example, use the administrative console to check the listener port properties: Destination JNDI name and Connection factory JNDI name. Check that other properties of the listener port, destination, and connection factory are correct.
- Check that the queue exists and has been added to the JMS server.
- Check that the queue manager and JMS server have started.
- Check that the Remote Queue Manager Listener has started.
If security is enabled, check that a component-managed authentication alias has been specified on the queue connection factory or topic connection factory used by the message-driven bean. For more information, see Problems running JMS applications with security enabled.
Problems running JMS applications with security enabled
WMSG0019E: Unable to start MDB Listener PSSampleMDB, JMSDestination Sample/JMS/listen : javax.jms.JMSSecurityException:This example indicates that the security credentials supplied are not valid.
- If the authentication mechanism is set to
Application, the application must supply valid credentials. - If the authentication mechanism is set to
Container, you must configure the JMS connection factory with a container-managed authentication alias, and ensure that the associated user ID and password are valid.
MQJMS2013 invalid security authentication supplied for MQQueueManager:If you are using IBM MQ as a JMS provider, with JMS connection and using bindings transport mode, and the user specified is not the current logged-on user for the WebSphere Application Server process, the JMS bindings authentication by IBM MQ generates an invalid security authentication error.
- Use security credentials. To do this, ensure that the user specified is the currently logged-on user for the WebSphere Application Server process.
- Do not use security credentials. On the IBM MQ connection factory, ensure that the Component-managed Authentication Alias and the Container-managed Authentication Alias properties are not set.
For more information about messaging security, see Securing messaging.
Application server does not start when the zh_TW.EUC locale is set on Solaris
On Solaris, if you set the locale to zh_TW.EUC and you are using IBM MQ as a JMS provider, your application servers might not start up.
To resolve this problem, set the LANG and LC_ALL variables to zh_TW.
Server memory consumption and java.lang.OutOfMemoryError error when processing JMS messages
When you use the default messaging provider, JMS messages are processed by a messaging engine within the application server process. This approach consumes memory from the application server JVM heap. If there is significant concurrent processing of large messages, and the amount of memory available to the JVM heap is not enough to handle this event, then a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError error is thrown and the application server terminates.
- When you deploy a message-driven bean that processes messages concurrently, estimate the potential consumption of the application server memory by concurrent endpoints. Note that each endpoint that is concurrently processing a message request adds at least two times the message size to the server JVM heap and can add more, especially if a two-phase transaction is in place.
- Start the WebSphere Application Server administrative console.
- Navigate to , then configure the amount of memory available to the application server JVM heap by setting the Initial Heap Size and Maximum Heap Size properties.
- Navigate to , then configure the number of concurrent MDB endpoints that can process messages by setting the Maximum concurrent endpoints property of the activation specification for this message-driven bean.
TopicConnectionFactory attributes clash error
WSVR0017E: Error encountered binding the J2EE resource, TopicConnectionFactory, as <JNDI_NAME> from file:<RESOURCES_FILE> com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.binder.ResourceBindingException: invalid configuration passed to resource binding logic. REASON: Failed to create connection factory: Error raised constructing AdminObject, error code: TopicConnectionFactory attributes clash : TopicConnectionFactory attributes clash
This problem is caused by the configuration of the JMS topic connection factory that is used to
create the subscriber, which specifies a broker version of Basic
and a message selection
value of Broker
. The Basic
IBM MQ broker (MA0C SupportPac broker) does not support Broker
message
selection.
To resolve this problem, change the JMS topic connection factory to specify a message selection
value of Client
, which is the only supported value for the IBM MQ Basic broker (MA0C SupportPac broker).
WSEC5061E: The SOAP Body is not signed exception
com.ibm.wsspi.wssecurity.SoapSecurityException: WSEC5061E: The SOAP Body is not signed.; null
- A web service application, configured with Web Services Security, is running in an application server that has WebSphere Application Server security enabled.
- This web service application uses the JMS transport to send SOAP requests to a target web service.
- The JMS resource uses a remote IBM MQ server to connect to a IBM MQ queue.
- Another identical web service application, configured to use the same queue through the same IBM MQ server, is running in a different application server that does not have WebSphere Application Server security enabled.
The problem occurs when a request sent from the original application is processed through the same queue, but to the different application server where security is not enabled.
- Create a unique queue manager with a unique port in the IBM MQ server.
- Reconfigure the JMS resources to use the new queue manager and port; for example, by using the WebSphere Application Server administrative console to change the properties of the IBM MQ queue connection factory, as described in Configuring a queue connection factory for the IBM MQ messaging provider.
- Rerun the application.
Error occurs when you use IBM MQ as an external JMS provider
When you use IBM MQ as an external JMS provider, and you send a message to an IBM MQ queue within a user-managed transaction, the message can arrive on the destination queue before the transaction commits. This problem occurs when the IBM MQ resource manager is not enlisted in the user-managed transaction.
To resolve this problem, use a container-managed transaction.
javax.jms.JMSException: MQJMS3024: unable to start MDB listener
- Set the client ID as a property of the tcf, by using the jmsadmin tool. For example, alter
tcf(myTCF) clientid(myID). - Set the client ID programmatically, by using
TopicConnection.setClientID() - Set the client ID field administratively, by using the administrative console to modify the IBM MQ messaging provider topic connection factory settings.