Issuing queue manager commands on z/OS

You use MQSC commands, in batch or interactive mode, to administer queue managers directly. You use PCF commands to help you create applications that administer queue managers. MQSC commands are in human-readable text form, whereas PCF commands let applications create requests and read the replies without having to parse text strings. Like MQSC commands, applications issue PCF commands by sending them as messages to the command input queue.

The following topics describe how you issue queue manager commands from the IBM MQ for z/OS console, the initialization input data sets, the batch utility CSQUTIL, or from authorized applications.

Not all commands can be issued from all sources. See Sources from which you can issue MQSC and PCF commands on IBM MQ for z/OS.