Publish Subscribe Status attributes

The Publish Subscribe Status attributes provide status information about the publish/subscribe engine.

Host Name Name of the system where the queue manager is running. The valid format is an alphanumeric string of up to 48 case-sensitive characters.

Origin Node Name of the node on which the data for the queue manager originates.

On z/OS systems, this name takes the form qmgr:smfid:MQESA, where qmgr is the name of the queue manager and smfid is the z/OS system or SMF ID.

Pub Sub Type The type of the publish/subscribe engine. Possible values are as follows:

  • 1 = Local
  • 2 = Parent
  • 3 = Child

Pub Sub Status The status of the publish/subscribe engine. Possible values are as follows:

  • 0 = Inactive
  • 1 = Starting
  • 2 = Stopping
  • 3 = Active
  • 4 = Compat*
  • 5 = Error
  • 6 = Refused

When the publish-subscribe engine has a status of Compat, the engine is running and publish/subscribe facilities available using MQI. However, the queued publish/subscribe interface is not running.

QMgr Name Name of the queue manager. The valid format is an alphanumeric string of up to 48 case-sensitive characters.

Subscription Count The total number of subscriptions against the local tree. This attribute is applicable for local publish/subscribe engine. When the Pub Sub Type value is Child or Parent, queue manager relations are not inquired and the value -1 is returned.

Topic Count The total number of topic nodes in the local tree. This attribute is applicable for local publish/subscribe engine. When the Pub Sub Type value is Child or Parent, queue manager relations are not inquired and the value -1 is returned.