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intenscia · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject:

Hi all, I'm new so please bear with me! Anyhow, I have a question regarding connecting Message Broker to a remote queue.

There is a UNIX server I have to get my Message Broker to communicate with via MQ. Now this UNIX server has a MQI channel defined which I have to use to read and write to its queues. Before I begin, please note that I do not have access to this UNIX server, so I cannot add more channels or change any settings. Now on my machine running MB, I can easily connect to the queues on my UNIX box using the standard MQI client connection string (ie. CHANNEL/TCP/HOSTNAME). The issue is, how do I setup MQ or MB to connect to these queues.

It appears to me, that MB can only connect to a locally defined queue. So I setup this local queue, and then try and get this queue to point to a queue on my linux machine via the MQI channel.

This is what doesn't work and what I cannot figure out how to do? How can I setup queues on my local machine which simply point or forward to queues on a remote unix machine. Now I know I can create send / receive channels to acheive this - but remember I cannot access the UNIX box to setup such channels so this isn't an option.

I'm not sure if I've got my process mixed up or if I am going about everything wrong, but i'd appreciate your input so I can see another's point of view.

Let me know if you need clarification on any of my points above - basically what I think I need to know, is how to create a local queue which is simply an alias for a remote queue which uses a MQI channel for bi-directional communication.