Preface


Contents of Your MessageQ MQSeries Connection Kit

In addition to your license certificate, your MessageQ MQSeries Connection media and documentation kit contains the following items:
Item Description

Read me first letter

Late-breaking news about this release and instructions for printing product release notes

Media

The distribution media appropriate for your system

Documentation

Introduction to Message Queuing

Guide to MQSeries Connection

Programmer's Guide

Release Notes


How to Use the Documentation

The MessageQ MQSeries Connection documentation kit contains the Introduction to Message Queuing, the Programmer's Guide, and this, the Guide to MQSeries Connection.

You may find the following documentation helpful when using MessageQ MQSeries Connection. The following guides are shipped with the MessageQ message server kits:

You may also find the MQSeries documentation helpful. For information on MQSeries, see the IBM MQSeries documentation set.

Based on your role in the development and deployment of distributed applications using MessageQ MQSeries Connection, the following table shows the recommended reading to learn and understand how to use MessageQ MQSeries Connection quickly:
Audience Introduction to Message
Queuing
Programmer's Guide Guide to MQSeries
Connection

Technical Managers

X

System Managers

X

X

Application Developers

X

X

X

How to Get Technical Support

If you have a question you cannot answer using the manual or the online documentation, you can contact BEA Technical Support using any of the following methods:

When contacting BEA Technical Support, please be sure to have your e-mail address, company name, company address, machine type, and authorization codes available. It is also helpful to write down any pertinent errors messages that can assist our BEA support team in diagnosing your problem faster.

We Want to Hear from You

If you have questions or comments about MessageQ software or documentation, you can send them to us using our Internet electronic mail address:

messageq@beasys.com

You can also write to us at:

MessageQ Engineering
BEA Systems, Inc.
500 Enterprise Drive
Rocky Hill, CT 06067

If you have questions about purchasing additional BEA products or services, please call 1-800-817-4BEA in the U.S. or +1-408-743-4000.

Or you can visit our World Wide Web home page at:

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Conventions Used in This Guide
Convention Description

boldface type

Boldface type is used to distinguish routine call arguments, command parameters, menu names, and menu items when they are described in the text. New terms, also shown in boldface type, are defined in the glossary in the Introduction to Message Queuing.

system output

This typeface indicates system output or the exact name of a command, option, partition, pathname, directory, or file.

italic type

Italic type emphasizes important information, indicates variables, and indicates complete titles of books.

UPPERCASE

Words in uppercase indicate a command, the name of a file, the name of a file protection code, or an abbreviation for a system privilege.

lowercase

In format descriptions, words in lowercase indicate parameters or arguments to be specified by the user.

n

A lowercase italic n indicates the generic use of a number. For example, 19nn indicates a four-digit number in which the last two digits are unknown.

[ ]

In format descriptions, brackets indicate optional elements. However, brackets are not optional in the syntax of an OpenVMS directory name or file specification.

.
.
.

The vertical ellipsis indicates the omission of information from an example or command format.

$

Indicates the default DCL prompt

#

Indicates the default superuser prompt

Return

Press the key labeled Return on the keyboard.

Enter

Type the information that follows and press the Return key.