MQSeries.net :: View topic - Q full of expired messages : a way to handle the situation

yaravind · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 12:36 pm Post subject:

Hi All,

I have a Java application which waits on the Queue for 100 seconds for a particular message (request-reply).If the message is not available on the Q within 100 seconds, I will send an error back to the client and will not try again to read the message.

The problem I am facing now is that the most of the Queue is being occupied by unread messages after 20 minutes and all other subsequent (current) messages are being written to the dead-letter-queue (because the Queue is already full). The depth of the Queue is 200. I dont want to increase the Queue depth. Can u guys let me know how to delete or the best way to delete the unread messages from the Queue??? I know that we can set an expiry time for a message, but even though the message expires I think the message will not be taken out of the Queue.

Thanks in advance for your help!