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brianegge
Asked: 2009-09-17 17:50:12 +0800 CST

How do I programatically check the depth of a WebSphere MQ queue

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The IBM RedBook instructions didn't help.

I need to give a script a queue manager and a queue/topic name, and have it return the number of messages queued up.

ibm-mq

2 Answers

  1. This command should work:

    echo "display ql(queue_name) curdepth" | runmqsc queue_manager_name
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  2. Best Answer

    I'm probably missing something here (turns out I was), as it's been about a year since I dealt with MQ at all and even then it was only peripherally, but wouldn't this command from the doc you linked give you the queue depth for a particular queue?

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    Per Andrew's correct answer, you need to pipe the command to runmqsc.

    echo "display ql(queue_name) curdepth" | runmqsc queue_manager_name
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