Course introduction
IBM MQ overview
Exercise: Working with IBM MQ to find your message
Basic design and development concepts
Exercise: Getting started with IBM MQ development
MQOPEN, queue name resolution, and MQPUT
Exercise: Working with MQOPEN and queue name resolution, MQPUT, and MQMD fields
Getting messages and retrieval considerations
Exercise: Correlating requests to replies
Data conversion
Bind and Message groups
Committing and backing out units of work
Exercise: Commit and back out review
Asynchronous messaging
Exercise: Asynchronous messaging review
IBM MQ clients
Exercise: Working with an IBM MQ client
Introduction to publish/subscribe
Exercise: Working with publish/subscribe basics
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) and IBM MQ Light
Exercise: Connecting IBM MQ Light applications to IBM MQ applications
Course summary

• Describe key IBM MQ components and processes
• Explain the effect of design and development choices in the IBM MQ environment
• Describe common queue attributes and how to control these attributes in an application
• Differentiate between point-to-point and publish/subscribe messaging styles
• Describe the calls, structures, and elementary data types that compose the message queue interface
• Describe how IBM MQ determines the queue where messages are placed
• Explain how to code a program to get messages by either browsing or removing the message from the queue
• Describe how to handle data conversion across different platforms
• Explain how to put messages that have sequencing or queue manager affinities
• Explain how to commit or back out messages in a unit of work
• Describe how to code programs that run in an IBM MQ Client
• Explain the use of asynchronous messaging calls
• Describe the basics of writing publish/subscribe applications
• Describe the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
• Differentiate among the various IBM MQ Light AMQP implementations
• Explain how to use IBM MQ applications to interface with IBM MQ Light