Shutting Down Connections

In order to do an orderly shutdown, you need to close the connection by calling MQCloseConnection() and then to free the memory associated with the connection by calling the MQFreeConnection() function.

• Closing the connection closes all sessions, producers, and consumers created from this connection. This also forces all threads associated with this connection that are blocking in the library to return.

• After all the application threads associated with this connection and its descendant sessions, producers, and consumers have returned, the application can call the MQFreeConnection() function to release all resources associated with the connection.

To get information about a connection, call the MQGetMetaData() function. This returns name and version information for the Message Queue product.