START QUEUEMANAGER: Making queues accessible

Summary

Privileges

System manager or User 0

Function

Validates the existence of a queue manager and marks it available for use.

Syntax

START {QUEUEMANAGER | QM} name

Where:

name identifies a queue manager created with the DEFINE QUEUEMANAGER command.

Usage

If the specified queue manager is already started, the command is ignored.

Once this command has been issued successfully, queues that belong to this queue manager can be opened with the OPEN QUEUE statement or the MQPUT1 statement.