Selecting a queue manager, defaults, and levels using the ISPF control panel on z/OS

While you are viewing the initial panel, you are not connected to any queue manager. However, as soon as you press Enter, you are connected to the queue manager, or a queue manager in the queue sharing group named in the Connect name field. You can leave this field blank; this means that you are using the default queue manager for batch applications. This is defined in CSQBDEFV (see Task 19: Set up Batch, TSO, and RRS adapters for information about this).

Use the Target queue manager field to specify the queue manager where the actions you request are to be performed. If you leave this field blank, it defaults to the queue manager specified in the Connect name field. You can specify a target queue manager that is not the one you connect to. In this case, you would normally specify the name of a remote queue manager object that provides a queue manager alias definition (the name is used as the ObjectQMgrName when opening the command input queue). To do this, you must have suitable queues and channels set up to access the remote queue manager.

The Action queue manager field allows you to specify a queue manager that is in the same queue sharing group as the queue manager specified in the Target queue manager field to be the queue manager where the actions you request are to be performed. If you specify * in this field, the actions you request are performed on all queue managers in the queue sharing group. If you leave this field blank, it defaults to the value specified in the Target queue manager field. The Action queue manager field corresponds to using the CMDSCOPE command modifier described in The MQSC commands.

Queue manager defaults

If you leave any queue manager fields blank, or choose to connect to a queue sharing group, a secondary window opens when you press Enter. This window confirms the names of the queue managers you will be using. Press Enter to continue. When you return to the initial panel after having made some requests, you find fields completed with the actual names.

Queue manager levels

The Operations and Control panels work satisfactorily only with queue managers running on z/OS® at IBM® WebSphere® MQ 710 or later.

If these conditions are not met, it is likely that actions work only partially, incorrectly, or not at all, and that the replies from the queue manager are not recognized.

If the action queue manager is not at, or above IBM MQ 8.0.0, some fields are not displayed, and some values cannot be entered. A few objects and actions are disallowed. In such cases, a secondary window opens asking for you to confirm that you want to proceed.