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Planning your IBM MQ environment on z/OS

When planning your IBM® MQ environment, you must consider the resource requirements for data sets, page sets, Db2®, Coupling Facilities, and the need for logging, and backup facilities. Use this topic to plan the environment where IBM MQ runs.

Before you plan your IBM MQ architecture, familiarize yourself with the basic IBM MQ for z/OS® concepts, see the topics in IBM MQ for z/OS concepts.

When planning your queue manager, you might need to work with different people in your organization. It is usually a good idea to involve those people early, as change control procedures can take a long time. They might also be able to tell you what parameters you need to configure IBM MQ for z/OS.

For example you might need to work with the:
  • Storage administrator, to determine the high level qualifier of queue manager data sets, and to allocate enough space for queue manager data sets.
  • z/OS system programmer to define the IBM MQ subsystem to z/OS and APF authorize the IBM MQ for z/OS libraries.
  • Network administrator to determine which TCP/IP stack and ports should be used for IBM MQ for z/OS.
  • Security administrator to set up access to queue manager data sets, security profiles for IBM MQ for z/OS resources, and TLS certificates.
  • Db2 administrator to set up Db2 tables when configuring a queue sharing group.