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Ready, set, connect!

Connect a simple MQ application to a queue manager

By

Richard J. Coppen

To see how MQ works, you will be guided through creating and configuring a queue manager, and connecting our sample application to it.

After completing the tutorial, you will be able to send messages to and retrieve messages from a queue.

You will also have a queue manager that is configured correctly to allow you to move on to other MQ tutorials.

Pick your platform

PlatformMQ versionTime
All platformsMQ in Containers30 minutes
All platformsMQ on Red Hat OpenShift30 minutes
All PlatformsMQ on Cloud15 minutes
All PlatformsMQ on AWS, MQ on AWS using Ansible, MQ on AWS using Terraform15 minutes
All PlatformsMQ on Microsoft Azure15 minutes
All PlatformsMQ on Google Cloud15 minutes
Linux (Ubuntu)MQ on Ubuntu30 minutes
MacMQ in Containers30 minutes
windowsMQ on windows45 minutes

Next steps

What's next? Write your first JMS application. Or, try any of our other tutorials.