This three day course teaches students how to develop business applications using the IBM MQI for procedural programming languages. 
 
Topics

• Preparing and writing WebSphere MQ application programs
• Basic MQI calls
• Triggering
• Message Properties
• Data conversion
• Coordination of units of work
• Minor MQI calls
• Message groups and Segmented Messages
• Distribution Lists
• MQ Security
• JMS Programming concepts 

Practical Work

The labs include extensive hands-on MQI coding exercises for procedural languages (C, COBOL) as well as basic administration tasks on UNIX and Windows platforms.
 
Objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Describe and use the MQI
• Design and write programs to use MQI as implemented on the chosen platform
• Explain the differences in program design necessitated by the messaging and queuing paradigm
• Describe, in detail, the different MQI calls
• Explain the differences in MQI across the different WebSphere MQ platforms  

Audience

This course is ideal for developers responsible for integrating various systems using WebSphere MQ.
 
Prerequisites

IS-WMQ-334 WMQ Technical Introduction.
Programming experience using procedural languages (Cobol, C, PLI, etc.). 
 
Duration

Three days.