Pinging a channel to verify a connection

When you define a channel, you must define both ends of the channel correctly otherwise the channel does not work. You can test that you correctly defined a channel by sending data as a special message to the remote queue manager, and checking that the data is returned. The data is generated by the local queue manager.

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You must ping from the sender or server end of the channel. You cannot ping a channel that is running; before you ping a channel, make sure that the channel is stopped or is not trying again.

To ping a channel, complete the following steps.

Results

If the channel is correctly defined, a message is displayed saying: IBM MQ successfully sent data to the remote queue manager and received the data returned. (AMQ4006)

If the channel is not correctly defined, an error message is displayed describing why you could not ping the channel.