Troubleshooting problems
About this task
This section of the Help deals with problems that you might have when using IBM® WebSphere® MQ Explorer.
You can prevent many problems with your object definitions and messaging configurations by testing your object definitions for potential problems. For more information, see Testing your object definitions for problems.
If an error message is displayed while you are working in IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer, click More Details on the error message to display more information about the problem.
When you start the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer using the runwithtrace command, additional parameters are incorporated that enable tracing of IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer. Note that the runwithtrace command takes no parameters itself.
- Is dependent upon the status of the IBM WebSphere MQ installation
- User permissions
The IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer trace file has a name of the format AMQYYYYMMDDHHmmssmmm.TRC.n. Each time IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer trace is run, the trace facility renames all previous trace files by incrementing the file suffix .n by one. The trace facility then creates a new file with the suffix .0 that is always the latest.
To trace IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer, complete the following steps.