How To
Summary
How to find out the value of MaxChannels that an MQ queue manager is actually using at runtime
The short answer is to generate an FDC agains the amqrmppa process then look at the generated FDC and search for the section "Channel Status Table Header" and you will find the entry "MaxChannels" and its value.
Objective
You have a running MQ queue manager, but you do not want to restart it yet.
You look at the qm.ini configuration file for the MQ queue manager and you see an entry for MaxChannels, but you noticed that the date stamp for the qm.ini indicates that the qm.ini was changed AFTER the queue manager was started. Thus, you are not sure if the value for MaxChannels in the qm.ini is the actual value that the queue manager is using.
The runmqsc command does not indicate the value for MaxChannels.
Thus, you would like to know if there are steps/tools that can be used to find out the value for this parameter without the need to restart the queue manager.
Steps
Consult the following technote for the details on how generate an FDC for Unix or Windows:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21474630
How to find out if a queue manager was started with a specific environment variable
How to find out if a queue manager was started with a specific environment variable
The above technote shows the steps for generating an FDC on the process amqrrmfa.
However, for our current purposes we need to generate the FDC on another process:
amqrmppa
In order for this process to be running, you need to have an active channel. If you do not have one, then you could establish a connection from a remote MQ client via a server-connection channel.
After the FDC for the amqrmppa process is generated, then search for the section:
Channel Status Table Header
{
Version 4
HeaderSize 456
ChanSeqNo 123
AllocatedCount 1
MaxChannels 100
MaxActiveChannels 100
Channel Status Table Header
.
Then in that section, you can see the value for MaxChannels that the queue manager is actually using (in this case is 100):
.
Then in that section, you can see the value for MaxChannels that the queue manager is actually using (in this case is 100):
Channel Status Table Header
{
Version 4
HeaderSize 456
ChanSeqNo 123
AllocatedCount 1
MaxChannels 100
MaxActiveChannels 100
+ end +
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Modified date:
22 February 2019
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