Here’s a good write up by Colin Paice on issues and handling of them when your queue manager won’t shutdown.
https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2017/07/28/isnt-queue-manager-shutting/
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
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