I posted this item on mqseries.net and I thought I should do a write up here.

Back in the early 2000s, I was a consultant at a customer site and they wanted the nightly dumps of the MQ objects (not messages), 1 line per object and then check those files into a source code repository.

I used SupportPac MS03 to dump the MQ objects but it put all objects in the same file and each object was on many lines. So, I wrote a simple Rexx script to extract each object type to: (1) flatten each object to 1 line and (2) write it their own object file.

SupportPac MS03 has been replaced with the dmpmqcfg program.

I have updated the list of object types in the Rexx script for the modern IBM MQ v9.2 (because IBM has added a lot of new objects in the last 15 years).

Example of running dmpmqcfg against your queue manager called MQA1:

dmpmqcfg -m MQA1 -a > MQA1.all.mqsc

Then you run it against my REXX script called fmt_dmpmqcfg.rex:

/* Format output from dspmqcfg command to a single line for each entry.  */
/* Put each MQ object type into a different file.                        */
/*                                                                       */
/* Example dspmqcfg command:                                             */
/*    dmpmqcfg -m MQA1 -a > MQA1.all.mqsc                                */

trace o
Parse Arg inFN .

if inFN = "" then
do
   Say "Invalid number of parameters."
   Say "i.e."
   Say "     fmt_dmpmqcfg.rex input_file_name"
   Exit
end

types = "QMGR CHANNEL LISTENER NAMELIST PROCESS QALIAS QLOCAL QMODEL QREMOTE SERVICE SUB TOPIC AUTHREC AUTHINFO CHLAUTH COMMINFO"


/* open file */
Call Stream inFN,'C','OPEN READ'

/* Delete previous output and then open it. */
do i=1 to Words(types)
   ptr = Word(types,i)
   outFN = inFN||"."||ptr||".mqsc"
   if (STREAM( outFN, 'C', 'QUERY EXIST' ) <> "") then
      "ERASE  "outFN
   Call Stream outFN,'C','OPEN WRITE'
   counts.ptr = 0
end

total = 0
mqscCmd = ""
do until Lines(inFN) = 0

   inLine = Strip(LineIn(inFN))   /* read next line */

   if (inLine = "") then
      NOP   /* blank line, forget-about-it */
   else if (SubStr(inLine,1,1) = "*") then
      NOP   /* comment line, forget-about-it */
   else
   do
      /* Last attribute in MQSC command? */
      if (Length(inLine) <> LastPos('+',inLine)) then
      do
         mqscCmd = mqscCmd || " " || inLine  /* add last attribute */
         ptr = Word(mqscCmd, 2)

         if (Pos("(", ptr) > 0) then
            ptr = SubStr(ptr, 1, Pos("(", ptr) - 1)

         nothing = LineOut(inFN||"."||ptr||".mqsc", mqscCmd)   /* write to the file  */

         counts.ptr = counts.ptr + 1
         total = total + 1
         mqscCmd = ""
      end
      else
      do
         temp = Strip(SubStr(inLine,1,(LastPos('+',inLine) - 1)))  /* remove '+' */
         if (mqscCmd = "") then
            mqscCmd = temp
         else
            mqscCmd = mqscCmd || " " || temp
      end
   end
end

/* close the files  */
Call Stream inFN,'C','CLOSE'
do i=1 to Words(types)
   ptr = Word(types,i)
   outFN = inFN||"."||ptr||".mqsc"
   Call Stream outFN,'C','CLOSE'
   Say outFN || " contains " || counts.ptr || " MQSC formatted commands."
end

Say ""
Say "Total formatted MQSC commands was:" total

Exit

To run the Rexx script, the command is:

rexx fmt_dmpmqcfg.rex  MQA1.all.mqsc

The Rexx script will output:

MQA1.all.mqsc.QMGR.mqsc contains 1 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.CHANNEL.mqsc contains 43 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.LISTENER.mqsc contains 5 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.NAMELIST.mqsc contains 3 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.PROCESS.mqsc contains 2 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.QALIAS.mqsc contains 4 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.QLOCAL.mqsc contains 111 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.QMODEL.mqsc contains 7 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.QREMOTE.mqsc contains 11 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.SERVICE.mqsc contains 6 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.SUB.mqsc contains 1 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.TOPIC.mqsc contains 8 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.AUTHREC.mqsc contains 438 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.AUTHINFO.mqsc contains 4 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.CHLAUTH.mqsc contains 3 MQSC formatted commands.
MQA1.all.mqsc.COMMINFO.mqsc contains 1 MQSC formatted commands.

Total formatted MQSC commands was: 648

If you setup a job (script/batch file) to do this nightly and then check the output files into a source code repository then you will have a complete history of changes made to your queue manager. Because the Rexx script flattens the data to 1 line per object, your source code repository will show you exactly which objects have changed.

Its a simple hack but well worth implementing.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.