Setting up the IBM MQ environment

Before you use the client connection to connect to a queue manager, you must set up the IBM® MQ environment.

Note: This step is not necessary when using IBM MQ classes for .NET in server bindings mode.

The .NET programming interface allows you to use the NMQ_MQ_LIB customization value but also includes a class MQEnvironment. This class allows you to specify details that are to be used during the connection attempt, such as those in the following list:

Channel name
Host name
Port number
Channel exits
SSL parameters
User ID and password

For full information about the MQEnvironment class, see MQEnvironment.NET class

To specify the channel name and host name, use the following code:


MQEnvironment.Hostname = "host.domain.com";
MQEnvironment.Channel  = "client.channel";

By default, the clients attempt to connect to a IBM MQ listener at port 1414. To specify a different port, use the code:


MQEnvironment.Port = nnnn;