Channels

A channel is a communication link used by distributed queue managers.

Channels are objects that provide a communication path from one queue manager to another. Channels are used in distributed queuing to move messages from one queue manager to another and they shield applications from the underlying communications protocols. The queue managers might exist on the same, or different, platforms.

For queue managers to communicate with one another, you must define one channel object at the queue manager that is to send messages, and another, complementary one, at the queue manager that is to receive them.