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Best Practices for handling SYSTEM queues in an IBM MQ Queue Manager

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Question

You are a new Administrator for an IBM MQ Queue Manager and you see many objects who name begin with 'SYSTEM', specially queues that have messages in it.
You would like to get some advice on how to handle these queues, such as:
Should you be concerned about those queues? 
Do you need to delete the messages? 
Should you not touch those queues?

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Modified date:
28 April 2025

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